Well, hey there guys, greetings and salutations, and welcome back to the channel for this installment of Open Mic.

Where the mic is open, the floor, as they would say, is yours. What's the stuff that you

guys want to talk about? That is what we are here to discuss. I am of course your host, John Campia. Good to have you guys here and for those you might be new to an open mic

It's kind of just like the John Campi show. It's a more casual laid back. We're just here to talk about stuff and hello to everybody who's already joining us here by the way guys

It's been like a month since we've done it open mic. So if you guys let me know if the mic is working fine if the video is working fine all that kind of stuff good have you guys back and of course we took a

break for Christmas vacation Michael Gonzalez is saying everything's good

thanks a lot for that Michael we took a break for Christmas vacation,

then I took a trip up to Canada to visit family, and then I got ridiculously sick and got hospitalized.

I am still, and then I was still, even though I feel good, the last couple of weeks I've still been dealing with

inflamed airways and stuff like that, so I'm still coughing a little bit which has made it really

difficult for me to try to do open mic but I'm still not a hundred percent better

but I think I can stumble my way through an open mic so it's it's good to be here

and thank you for that K major

K major's pointing out that my mom is going to be going home. I mentioned this

on the John Campus show earlier but my mom has been in hospital for almost two years.

And you know, last year I had to go home quickly because my mom was going in for a surgery that they said

she only had like a 10% chance of surviving.

And so I thought I was going home to say goodbye to be honest with you.

And she got through that and then even though she got through the surgery they

thought well she'll die in hospital she'll never or she'll never be able to leave the

hospital or things may still go bad but things have gone really well and she called me

today to let me know that their medical team has had their meeting and they're

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