Yeah, we shortened up the intro. That's right. I figured there's no reason to have this

super long intro. Welcome back everybody. Happy after holidays to you. Thanks for being here. Thanks for

investing a little bit of time in the show today. I'm gonna make it worth your

while. It's been a few weeks since we did a show we ended last season if you want to think

about it like that just before Christmas and then went through New Year's and

since the Monday fell on I think it was on New Year's wasn't it Dan. We just decided yeah I don't think we're going to do a show on New Year's

most people are going to be still recovering or at least enjoying their time off

but I trust you had a pretty good holiday, D.

Yeah, it was good.

We did a lot of different stuff.

I was telling you in the pre-show about

the number of puzzles that we did

between Christmas and now, which has been fun.

You know, it's a complete change up and the way that I was spending some afternoons, but it's pretty enjoyable.

Yeah, man, we had the whole family. We went to, took everybody to Southern California because it was everybody my wife's family lives in

Northern California in Chico which is cold and kind of gross up there and and you know

my kids live in the Midwest and it's really cold there and so we

just thought let's get everybody together and we'll go to California and we'll

spend some time by the beach and it was great the weather was perfect the kids had a great time and the beach and it was great. The weather was perfect, the kids had a great time and the whole family, like

grandma's, grandpaws, everybody was there, we rented a house and got to spend like 10 days just hanging out with everybody and so and that's really yeah man

I'm glad we had the opportunity to do it it's it's it's a blessing I you know like said, I kind of believe that your money that you have is there's no point in acquiring more and more and more.

Once you have enough then to survive and you kind of your survival numbers met then I feel like

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