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Hey everybody, it's your boy, Jake Howe.

I hope everybody's doing well.

It is the year of the pandemic.

And it's August of 2020, and I have been in quarantine since March 12th when I self-guarantined.

And it's been over a hundred days.

It's been a bit of a challenge for me.

I'll be totally honest with the audience. You know me as a

highly social person. I did a back of the envelope and I realized I would travel

internationally four or five times a year. I travel domestically somewhere between

like I don't know 10 12 in other words I was on the

road a week a month and meeting people around the world and I've been doing that

since I was in my early 20s when I started my first magazines.

First one was called Cyber Surfer, did five issues with Starlogg,

got into a big legal battle.

That's for another day.

Then I started a little pamphlet called Silicon

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