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We're I'm not sure how fast your internet connection is so we are recording remotely Ryan is just south of Kalispell, Montana?

Correct. Yeah, I live in a little town called Summers. We're about a mile from Flathead Lake.

It's a beautiful part of the world. Okay. At the end of the

end of the podcast we'll give out your personal you know address and just let

people know that if they're ever in the area you can stop by for a free

meal so and I'd imagine the internet service up there and in whatever the town is that you just said is is impeccable.

Uh yeah I would say it goes in and out you know there's a lot of times where it's good and then it'll just disappear for three or four days at a time.

You know, it's living in Montana.

Oh, oh, wow, okay. Well that sounds like that sounds pretty nice.

I mean, that's sort, it sounds like a good fishing trip is if I'm, you're out of service for a good four or five days at a time and then maybe you get a little bit of a service where your phone blows up and then you go right back out of. That is a fantastic recipe for a fishing trip.

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So, hey hey so I'm sitting in a coffee shop

this morning and I want to know if you relate to this I'm sitting in a coffee shop this

morning because I work out of my house and then we go location to shoot video.

But a lot of times I go to a coffee shop to sit and write and do my work because it's the only time I'm going to see another human

being that day. It's the only time I might I have to have an excuse to get the hell

out of the house and put on pants. And so I went to the coffee shop and this guy comes in with a

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