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My name is Mike Hurley and I have the pleasure of introducing Stephen Hacking.

Hi, Stephen.

Hello, Mike Hurley.

How are you?

Oh, I'm good. I'm happy because we have a special guest. We do. I am so pleased to announce our special guest, Jason Snell. Hello, I am Jason Snell, the Upgrade Draft Challenger, and it's great to be here. Don't you forget it. You know, I was thinking about this. It's been a long time for you to be a challenger. Yeah. Yeah. You really beat me down now. That's how it goes. Well, what happens is you get to the point where Mike, uh, Mike really needs to, wants to win and takes it super seriously. And I'm just coasting because I've won so many times that I'm just like, oh, I'll just do picks for the humor of it. But then like he gets on a streak and then I'm like, okay, I'm going to be serious now. And I can't get it back. It's very frustrating. But my favorite, one of my favorite drafts was when you said, okay, I'm going to get serious about it now and I still beat you. That was a good one for me. Yeah. That was a good one for me. You've got the momentum now.

You've got Big Moe.

I don't know how I'm going to get you about it now and I still beat you. That was a good one for me. Yeah. No, once you, you've got the momentum now. You've got Big Mo. I don't know how I'm going to get you off your game. Big Mo. I did win the, I did win the auxiliary draft where we drafted extra things, which is really stupid of me because if that had just been part of the main draft, I would have won. But I didn't. The California Bear Trophy for W.O. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, y'all, we don't have time for this. This is upgrade. Oh, sorry. We have a Snell Talk question. Oh, okay. David wrote in, why didn't any of you go with personalized sites? Why use brand names like 512 pixels,

The Enthusiast, Mac Stories, Six Colors, etc.

Did you know that when I announced that I was leaving Macworld,

that announcement was posted on Snellworld.com?

I remember.

Yeah, and you've made the right choice by not continuing that.com. I remember. And I... Yeah. Yeah.

And you made the right choice by not continuing that. Well, I didn't want to announce my thing yet, right? Like, literally, I didn't want to say, hey, everybody just got laid off and here's my new site. So I had to find a place to put it. And so... But, but... It was essentially just a text file, right? that was... Oh, it's still here.

It's still here!

Yes. Look at this. Oh yeah, snowworld.com. It's still there. You're still paying for that. Now it's just, now it's, it's an about, but the, the blog post, um, is on six colors now and it's linked from, from that single site of snowworld.com. But yeah, I'm still paying for that along the many domains. I imagine we're all going to say the same thing or variations on the same thing, which is like it's not my personal site. It's the place where I do like the incomparable is where I do some stuff. And six colors is where I do different stuff. And then six colors was kind of always my intent to have it be more than just me, too. You know, there's that aspect of it as well, that it's not Jason's Mac site because I figured at first, I thought it would be a place where maybe some of my laid off colleagues could write a little bit, and some of them did. And then over time, you know, Dan came on board. And so it was really me and Dan for many, many years.

And now I've also got, you know, Glenn once a week and Maltz once a week and, and Joe Steele and Shelley Brisbane every month.

So, you know, it would be bad if, I mean, this is, I briefly did some freelancing for the Windows super site.

But remember that was about that.

That was originally, oh, who was it?

Whose site was that?

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