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Procter & Gamble.

Just throw anybody else in there. Kellogg, you know. Actually, what Kellogg's not even a company anymore, right? Yes, Raytheon. And Lockheed, weirdly. Kellogg's probably not even a company anymore, right? That's probably, it's got to be part of a conglomerate. Yeah, surely, surely. I don't remember which one it was. General Mills or... Probably General Mills, if I had to guess. Or some kind of, uh, uh, Alex. Yeah. How are you? Now I'm just thinking about breakfast cereal, so I guess I'm okay. But yeah, I'm fine. Did you, did you know Kellogg's original... Kellogg's first name as a company was Battle Creek toasted corn. I think I did know that because like Kellogg was a dude who had like a fitness, like religion, right? Isn't that the whole thing? Battle Creek. Oh, wait, I'm sorry. The entire name was Battle Creek toasted corn flake company. Yeah. We don't name them like we used to, man. We've lost something.

Yeah. Yeah.

The move to cool,

trying to come up with cooler names for things. I, I, I kind of miss when companies were either a dude's name or it just said what it was. Yeah. You know, that's a, Dr. Horatio's like, you know, vigor tonic or what have you.

Battle Creek toasted corn is like a fake

cobra front

you know and vigor tonic or what have you? Battle Creek toasted corn is like a fake cobra front, you know, and like where there's just a hiss tank sitting behind the fucking sign. Brad Schuemaker. Hi. How are you? I'm all right. Doing fair. Fair to Midland. Okay. You know, life is proceeding. It's not fair to modeling. That's good. Sure is. Yeah, that's right. Fair to Midland is what the old timers used to say. Back when we ate our Battle Creek toasted notes, that's what we used to say. It's a fair to Midland cereal, I think. Go get a phosphate. Only the kids are getting phosphates.

That's the devil's brew.

I had an interesting experience last night at around 6.30 in the evening.

Okay.

Our power went out in a weird way, in a weird way, in a way that the power mostly went out, and then some bulbs just slowly flickered and then dimmed away in a kind of creepy way.

Oh.

Yeah.

And then there was a little bit there where I was like, okay, is it going to come back on?

You don't know.

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