Hi, James.

Ben, how are you?

Apparently better than you.

Yeah, I don't know.

I've got a splitting headache for some reason.

I'm not sure why, but the very prospect of talking to you makes me feel better.

Yeah, I think you're just admitting defeat early.

Oh, all right.

Well, you're stealing my headache's feeling a lot better with just that one line.

Let's go.

Yeah, so actually, I ended up writing two articles this week.

My regular one was about, you know, Zoe Keating and YouTube and kind of what's kind of turned into my

ongoing campaign against streaming services.

But we might get to that waiter, but I actually dropped another one last night, just

kind of off the cuff.

Just kind of like, it was just so striking to me.

Apple delivered this record quarter, ridiculous revenues.

And it was interesting.

One, I mean, of course, you know, John Gruberd is regular, like all the claim chowder

and all these ridiculous, you know, predictions, especially from just a year, year and a half ago.

But then I was talking to a reporter and analyst, I can't remember which one it was.

They were asking me about China, Apple and China.

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