Hi, James. Ben, how are you?

Feeling a little rough. I feel you a little rough.

Why is that, Ben?

Well, first off to our audience, happy Chinese New Year.

Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, which is actually the big celebration where there will be much food consumed, much, much other beverages of various types consumed, various games played.

And so I plan to wake up early this

morning so we could record and edit this so I could get to the festivities. But it's also the

first day that the kids are off of school. Or actually my daughter's been off of school for a week,

but first day my son was off school was off from his preschool also. And like all people, apparently,

where you've been going to school, going to school, the day you finish, you get sick. And so he was,

he was sick last night. So I was up. I was up. I was up. Finally I fall asleep. He falls asleep.

And I wake up and it's like 10 minutes. So we are going to have one of the all-time Ben wakes up halfway

through the episodes today, I think. Well, you know, I've been guilty of that more than a few times

when we've had to record in the morning, too, so I can sympathize. And when you said you were running

late because of sleeping, I assumed it was because you'd been popping bottles in anticipation

of Chinese

New Year, and now I feel incredibly guilty for reaching that conclusion. No, that's tonight.

That's tonight. Very great. So speaking of Chinese New Year, just a heads up. My family,

as we do every year, will be taking a little vacation. So for sure, in two weeks we will not record. Next week is very much up in

the air because we're leaving actually late, late Thursday night. We should record on Friday. So

we're going to try to get one done, but we might not. So just a heads up to folks. We are going to

miss one or two of the following weeks. Got it. So you mentioned for Chinese New Year that it was food and alcohol.

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