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Hi, James.

Ben, how are you?

I am, I'm tired and a little stressed out, to be honest.

Oh, no.

I, that, I don't want to hear that.

I've missed you so much.

It feels like it's been forever.

Well, that's very sweet of you.

It's like, it's like one of those situations where um so if you're like procrastinating on

something right or or especially if it's something relatively visible like you know paper or

i don't know something that that other people are going to see like the more you put it off

like the more pressure you feel that whatever you deliver has to be like super good. And so that, which actually makes you more, wants to procrastinate even more.

So that's kind of like how I feel, you know, our, our beloved fans and they are beloved

have been very vocal in their insistence that exponent returns sooner rather than later.

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