Hello and welcome to Mac Power Users.

My name is Stephen Hackett.

I'm joined by my friend and yours, Mr. David Sparks.

Hello, Stephen.

How are you today, buddy?

I am much better.

A big thanks to our friend Chris Bailey for filling in for me.

I was quite sick.

I had no voice.

I sent you a voice memo at some point. I was like, no one needs to hear this. Yeah, that was funny. First, it was weird. I'm like, why Stephen would send me a voice memo? I'm like, oh, okay, I get it. I, so I'm not a big voice memo user. I had to, like, find it in my messages, like the list of apps and messages.

But yes, after several days of not speaking to anybody and more hot tea and cider than any

one man should drink, I am back.

Well, it's funny.

Chris came in at the last minute.

He did a great job.

And thanks again, Chris, for coming in.

And we were talking about AI kind of around the episode because Chris is really kind of not into AI.

He just wrote his new book.

He didn't even use like a grammar checker because he didn't want anyone to accuse him of using AI to write.

But since we recorded the episode,

he's been texting me. He's discovered AI for what I like to call donkey work to do like busy

work for him. And being on the show has triggered something for Chris. So now we're going to have

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