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Today is Thursday, the 2nd of January 20, 25.

Cecil, and we are back from the only no-show hiatus.

I just want to point out, in the entire history of cognitive distance, we have never missed a drop until the last week, I think. I think last week we missed the drop. That's on me. That's 100%.

It's on us both. It was too hard to schedule. But Tom, I know people are going to be

interested to hear from you very specifically

about how your family's doing and how Haley's doing. So can you tell us, give us a status update?

Yeah. So let me kind of let you guys know kind of what happened and why we were off for such a long time.

So in early December, December 5th, my family got what we thought was norovirus. Might have been, I don't know.

Haley's had some health struggles.

Kids got sick.

Haley got sick.

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