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

The Thursday's gonna come in and click that board. Hey! Very fancy.

For the for I don't know. For the clips. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. make it easier to sync the audio in the video

How was your drive up? Oh, it was great. Yeah, I 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

16 hundred miles closer than California all right how did you and 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.

Stop there. 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 really, it's really good to be back home and 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 and everything

it's it I'm flourishing there I really really love it I'm so 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 do my due diligence so before I moved back I took a trip in I moved back last July and

before I moved back I did a trip April, where I came back to town for like a week,

just to check it out and did a little house hunting, but mostly just to check it out.

And see how it had changed, because I knew it would have changed

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