Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, October 17th, Derek Van Riper, here with

Inoceros, still in someone else's imaginary living room.

If you're watching on YouTube, you can see my microphone and my headphones keep disappearing.

Very cool magic trick that I can do kind of randomly.

I can't control it, but I can do the tricks.

So I guess that's better than not being able to do the trick at all.

I have no tricks for you.

Yeah, you're a little better standing.

Which probably if this was the first time this was happening, you'd probably just think this was normal.

You wouldn't see anything wrong with what's going on in my video.

So, you know, I'm glad you are aware of what's

happening because if you weren't, it would be very confusing. Yes, there it is. There's your

microphone. Yep, it's here. But yeah, no, I'm back from San Diego, which was crazy. In the last week, I've been to a Pet Shop Boys concert,

went to Friday nights Padres game, and went to a benefit that my father-in-law was helping throw um that was literally across the street

from petco at the library so all the staff that wasn't immediately busy was hanging out outside

on the balcony literally watching the big screen uh at Petco for game five.

And yeah, I was in the stands on Friday.

All of it really fun, except I got a sinus infection last week before the Pet Shop

Boys concert.

And it's been really laying me low.

And then I added, oh, this is this was just a topper.

So I've been getting a little better over time.

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