This is get it out of the way. This is start right off the bat. It's a big day for you. Yes today

Today you announced you're going solo

Yeah, with a YouTube channel. You're leaving I more you've been there 11 years. That's it. Yeah

I you gave me a heads up about a week ago

You know sort of knew you had an inkling but tell me more what what are your thoughts behind this?

What what's what's going on?

Well, I mean I'm more back when I first joined that it was still phone different and it was run by a very small network of people and it just it kept growing and it became mobile nations and

Then a year ago it was bought by future PLC which is one of the biggest companies in media

They own everything like a nantec and Tom's guide and tech radar and just almost every site you can imagine

And it became like a grown-up big company and I'd worked in grown-up big companies before and

And I just sort of come to really appreciate the smaller

Environment and everyone was doing great Lori Gill had taken over I'm more on a day-to-day basis and she was just knocking it out of the park

And Al sacco had taken over a lot of what I used to do around the network and he was just so good at it

That it felt like a year after the purchase everything was solid. I didn't feel guilty about leaving everyone in the lurch

And after watching like you and Dalrymple and snow just walking into events and you know doing exactly what you wanted to do at them and not have to worry about

All the the things that happen when you're on somebody else's dime

I just thought now is the time if I don't do it now. I'll wake up in in 10 years

I'll still be I'll probably be part of the even bigger company by that. I think it's probably surprising and just it's

It's good to be busy and that's all of the world's craziness

Right now and I feel like I'm busier than ever

You're obviously way busier than ever now that you've got all of this going on

But just trying to catch up a little bit today after you went public with this and all of the well wishes and everything one thing that I

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