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a lot. It's very succinct. Straight to the point, you know exactly what you're

getting before the show even starts. I think so. I think if you had to sum up what

our show is about in one word and or sound effect, it would be... Right, it would

be some sort of bodily noise. Yeah, definitely, definitely. Yes. Anyway,

welcome to the show, I'm bad. Happy, uh, I don't know. Happy what? Happy holidays?

Sure. Happy recession? Yeah. Exactly. Happy crappy economy.

My wife's company laid off her office, just her office in Japan laid off

over a hundred people on Monday and Tuesday. Thanks.

Not her though, not yet. Luckily. Luckily, yes. Yes, I keep waiting for that phone call,

for that crying phone call, but it hasn't come in yet.

Then you move back to the States. Yeah, my parents, I'm sure, are secretly hoping, not

secretly, but they're probably openly hoping that you lose your job. So we have no

reason to stay here. I mean, the dollar is so weak right now, especially compared to the yen

that I'm losing a lot of money by staying here. It's 90, it's 92 yen to the dollar right now,

and at one point while I've lived here, it was 125 yen to the dollar. So that's a pretty significant

drop. It sure is. Wow, that's frightening. Yeah, it's no joke. So it's basically like

everything caught. If I pay for US dollars, which I, you know, I only get paid in US dollars,

you know, what's what percentage is that one? That's like 25% or more.

Well, it's 10%. What do you mean? Well, I mean from, oh, you're probably paying 10% more than

if it was even if it was a one to one. No, no, no, no, you don't go by one to one. You go by what

it usually is. And it's usually 115. Is that what it usually was or is that just what it used to be?

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