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The top of it. And now here are your anime addict. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, All right, so everybody, welcome to the podcast. We are joined by Peter Payne, the founder and

CEO of J-list.com for yet another fireside chat. so how are you doing Peter?

Uh do pretty good. Let me move my microphone a bit actually.

It's probably far away.

Okay. Yeah everything good on your end?

Everything's good down here in Florida.

It's starting to get warm again.

The weather is starting to,

it's starting to get to that time

when, you know, it's, it's, the heat index is 95 at 8 a.m. in the morning and you hurry as

fast as you can from your car to the office but you do you experienced a bit of

that yourself recently didn't you? Yeah we just got done with the Phoenix show.

So basically in May, we go to San Diego,

I fly to San Diego, then we drive five or six hours

to Phoenix and we have a nice convention there and we become sort of dried out mummies and you know

wonder how people manage to live in Phoenix and then we leave and we go back to San Diego and it's like,

ah, it's so nice and moist and now I'm back in Japan of course where it's even more moist.

Actually, we're just starting rainy season. So right. I'm often not here. I'm often in

San Diego for rainy season so I miss it entirely but I'll be here this time. Well that's that's quite a disparity because like everything

I've heard about San Diego the comments are you know some of the this beautiful weather you'll ever experience

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