We're live. Okay. Great to have you here. Thank you. It's always good to be alive.

Thursday's going to come in and click that board. Hey. Very fancy. I don't know. For the clips.

Yeah, yeah. Make it easier to sync the audio and the video. How was your drive up? Oh, it's great. Yeah.

Since I live in Arkansas now, I am only 13 hours away by car. So it makes a nice little road trip.

Certainly look. Yeah, closer than California. Much closer than 1,600 miles closer than California.

All right. How did you enjoy your move? Are you glad to be out of California?

Oh, man, yes. I mean, California, as you know,

is a beautiful state. And that's about it. It is insanely expensive. It is poorly managed. It is

near line border fascist, both in the government and in the private sector. Has that been, has that escalated over the last decade?

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

So it's, it's really, it's really good to be back home.

And I'm, I'm just delighted to be back in my hometown.

That's great.

Do you still have friends or family who live nearby?

I do.

I haven't reconnected with all my friends yet.

I have with some of them, but my brother and sister both live there.

And so after 30 years of being in California, it's really great to be back around family and where I grew up and everything.

It's it, I'm flourishing there. I really, really love it.

I'm so glad. I'm glad, you know, that you might make a move like that and go,

this wasn't as good as I had dreamed it would be or remembered it was.

Well, I, I do my due diligence. So before I moved back, I took a trip in, I moved back last July.

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