Welcome to Rates and barrels. It's Monday, April 3rd.

Derek Van Riper here with Chris Welsh, Inoseris, on vacation, enjoying

some much-deserved time off. It sounded like he didn't necessarily love being on the pod

every single day while I was gone. And I think you guys did an awesome job while I was out.

I tried to listen to as many shows as I could, very random hours of the day. So I have some

fragments of what happened while I was gone. But one of the things I could, very random hours of the day. So I have some fragments of what

happened while I was gone. But one of the things I could tell was that, you know, was getting a little burnout from the heavier schedule while I was gone. Yeah, it was fun talking with you know about it too, because it would be like, yeah, yeah, we're going to have Derek back. And then he would just have this like, oh, thank God.

And then I was like, I don't think it was that bad.

Was I? And then he was like, no, no, no. It's just hosting.

And yeah, I mean, back and then he would just have this like oh thank god and then i was like i don't think it was that bad was

and then he was like no no no it's just hosting and yeah i mean five days a week is pretty tough

especially with everything that you know is going on with eno and all the great articles i mean i felt like

you know over even the last couple weeks uh which we dearly missed you by by the way. But, like, him and I would just

go on with things, probably as you two would go. And then you would have, like, two or three article ideas that would pop out of it. Like, me and Eno kind of ended up doing that, where you could hear the articles starting to roll and be created. But yeah, he deserves it. Have some sandwiches, have some beers and share it with all of us.

I think it had a really nice meetup in New York as well.

On Friday, it looked like from the pictures. serves it, have some sandwiches, have some beers, and share it with all of us. I think it had a

really nice meetup in New York as well on Friday it looked like from the pictures. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. That looked great. I had some nice sandwich pictures over the weekend for me. You know, I think it's something like five, five sandwiches, ten beers in three days or something. I might have the numbers a little wrong. The beer number seems a tad low. I was about to say

TVR,

the beer number

might be a little bit

higher.

Maybe that was on something, I might have the numbers a little wrong. The beer number seems a tad low. I was about to say,

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