Hi, James. Ben, how are you? I'm okay. I'm okay. I am back in Taiwan, which I'm very happy to be. I did a

longer trip than I usually do. Usually I do the like in on Monday out on Thursday, which sounds

terrible, but it's actually better because I stay on a Taiwan time zone. Whereas this was a like

eight or nine days and it was, man, it was

rough. I, I actually got on the plane yesterday, and I slept for like 10 hours straight, which,

A, it's on a plane, and B, I never sleep for 10 hours straight, so I was, I was, I was pretty

exhausted. So I am always impressed by your ability to land in a in a locale and stay on

the the time zone of origin for just like three days and get out. Like I mean I'm massively impressed

by that, but only surpassed by your ability apparently to sleep 10 hours on a bumpy flight over

the Pacific Ocean. That's no

mean feat. Well, the truth is I just don't sleep, but three days is like a tolerable amount

of time to not sleep that much. But once it extends out longer than a week, then it gets rough.

But I am, so news to say, I'm glad to be back. It is good to be on the home microphone. I

apologize for skipping last week, which was also due to plane and travel problems. But regardless, it is going to be back and it's going to be talking to you. Let's get to have you back.

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Yeah, that's awesome.

Thanks, guys.

So you may have heard there is a little,

little company that had a, had a few announcements this week. Do you know of whom I'm speaking?

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