Holy crap.

Wow.

Hello acquired listeners.

You're going to say that.

That's good.

I'm at living.

I got up here and I was overcome with emotion and none of this is scripted.

Thank you so much for coming tonight.

I like prepared things and I should read them off my iPad here.

But the only thought that can occur to me right now is how different this is than what you and I normally do.

David and I are very used to being on Zoom talking to each other through the internet.

There are zero people watching live and if we say something wrong we delete it.

And that's not happening tonight.

But more important than that is, you know, we get evidence that people listen in the form of analytics or tweets or anecdotes here and there of someone saying, oh I listen to the show.

But there's no human visceral way to feel that.

Like we literally just profession in an analytics dashboard and a number goes up and this is so cool to see you.

Real.

Well, as fun as it is going to be to like watch the show and we've got some great stuff planned.

I think it will be much cooler to meet each other.

For as many, they call it parasocial relationships where you hear us talk but we don't get to meet you.

We're going to try and meet as many of you as possible.

We want a lot of you to meet as many other people as possible because you have an easy opener.

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