Hello and welcome to episode 163 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenik here as always with

Jason Rubinots. Hello Ian, how are you?

Hello Jason. I'm doing all right. I'm muddling my way through the week. We've been dealing with

quarantines and things. Thankfully no one in our houses is sick, but some people got sick in

the youngsters classroom and so they've been in quarantine the beginning of the week so that's been fun because of course this is the

week where both my wife and I have multiple engagements with people outside of our own offices and therefore

have to appear to be professional. So that's been a wonderful challenge to get around, but everyone is healthy, so small mercies.

That's good. How are you? I'm good. You and I have had very different weeks so far. We have. I'm not jealous at all. I'm not.

Not at all. Yeah, sure. Are you sure? I feel a bit of insincere niche, a challenge of jealousy.

Yeah, it doesn't sound accurate to me. So what did you do this week?

I have left on Sunday and returned to New York today, but I was in St Martin of all places for the past few days.

And how was Plain Spatter's Paradise?

It was everything it's supposed to be.

I have not been there since I think 2016.

I've been there twice before 2014 and I think 2016 not

since the hurricane that absolutely obliterated pretty much everything on the

island yeah they're still still building back I much everything on the island. Yeah.

They're still building back.

I stayed at the ocean point, which is, I think, a senesta property,

which is right by Maho Beach.

I didn't arrange it or anything, but the room had a balcony that happened to look over the bay where the aircraft fly over and had a great view of the entire runway, just worked out way and it was it was nice. I'm not I'm not jealous. I'm I'm treating this as a

reconnaissance mission on my behalf. You went down there, you checked things out, you made sure that they're

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