Hi, James. Ben, how are you? I'm good. How are you? Yeah, not too bad. San Francisco,

it's starting to get a little warm and any time a little bit of heat hits this city,

everybody kind of doesn't know what to do. It's crazy. I'm used to Australia and it gets very

hot there, but it's funny. Like, you get used to the cool, temperate, call the fog all the time,

and then a little bit of heat, and everybody's just, like, sweltering.

It's kind of funny.

Everyone feels so bad for you.

I'm kind of enjoying it, actually,

but everyone around me is wilting a little bit.

It's kind of funny to watch.

Speaking of heat, there have been a lot of hot takes over over the last week about what of the probably more shocking acquisitions

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You segue before the raid. I'm impressed. We got a new read. We got new reads.

We have hot takes. We have everything. It's going to be a packed episode. I am really looking forward to

this episode, actually. I mean, I normally look forward to talking to you, but the article this week

you outdid yourself with. It was particularly, it was particularly good. It was

kind of crazy to see the internet aflutter with the news of Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods.

And the take that you came with was so unique to you and so different from everybody else and so much explanatory

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