Let's up everyone, welcome to the 320 first episode of the Pokemon podcast, it's super effective.

I'm your host, SBJ, with me back two weeks gone, but your back will.

I'm allowed a vacation from time to time.

You are, you are. How are you? How was your trips?

Well, I didn't trip when my mom was visiting. That was here at my house. That was nice to see my mom and my niece,

because my niece wants to play Vanguard now, so that's awesome. Keep it in the family.

I mean, Jen Conn was really cool, except you weren't there.

I was. I tried.

Did you really try? I did. I really went to the last minute so you could use the tear sticker.

The tear sticker? No, I mean, like I was. All right, also here is Greg.

And you know what's the interesting thing now that I've come to realize, and this may hopefully

just be a 2018 thing, is that I can either be in the same place as you. I can be in the same

places Greg, or you and Greg can be together, but the three of us cannot be in the same place at

the same time. Yeah, that's it. We were cursed. Yeah, and that seems to be happening recently.

So I was talking to Greg quite a bit. We were talking about different different train options,

different bus options. I was looking at flights. I was working it. I was working. I know. I know

you were showing me the text messages, but why not just drive? You know, because it's a good time

thing, right? Because if it's like, you know, a $50 train slash bus, I could at least, you know,

get some work done on said, on said thing. Plus like I, if I was driving with somebody, that would

have changed it. Like I really tried hard to convince my friend Tim to like come down, because I know

Tim would have loved the drive. And then I could have been that would have been cheaper and faster.

And I could still could have still worked. But when I realized I was only in a situation to go solo,

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