Marco, you can obviously do whatever you want to do, but if you will permit me to punt to John, if I can do the punting to John for the pre-show when you're ready, please. Yeah, all right. Let's go live. Hi, everybody. We're live. Oh, is it me? All right? I didn't know if you had a preamble. I didn't know if there was a preamble. I know they say hike when they like, you know, snap the ball. Is there an equivalent command for punting?

Over.

Hold?

I don't know.

All right.

Let me start over. say hike when they like you know snap the ball is there is there an equivalent command for punting over

hold i don't know uh all right let me start over and get us going a long time ago when marco and

john and i first started talking about doing a podcast together uh and i think we've told this

story but not in a long time uh one of the things that marco and john and all said to each other was, look, we're not going to stop being friends on account of any of this.

And at the time, that was hilarious because it was us talking about cars and that didn't amount to all that much in the grand scheme of things until you get to ATP.

I stand by that.

I think you two stand by it.

I think we've done a great job of it, except now everything

is the show. And so in our internal show notes, we have a section for the pre-show. And sometimes

there, a lot of times Mark will just make something up, or sometimes the two of us will. But for

the last 48 hours, I've had to stare at pre-show, colon. John made an important purchase. And I don't know what it is. And I'm dying. And this is why maybe this whole, maybe we should shut it all down. Because I don't want to have to wait to know what your important purchase was, John. But finally, the time has come. Fill me in, please. I spent so long trying to decide whether I should put anything there because a lot of time I just don't.

That's true. finally the time has come fill me in please i spent so long trying to decide whether i should put

anything there because a lot of time i just don't surprise you with it but i did want to like

reserve the slot but i didn't want to make it seem that big of a deal right i didn't want to overhyhy

important purchase that sounds like but it's not like if i had like uh if i'd written like on your

school paper see me like see me after class or like

we need to talk or something terrible like that so I wanted to tamp it down to be like this is not

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