Well, hello, Elliot, and it's lovely to see you again, and I just would like to wish

you happy Chinese New Year.

Oh, thank you very much, Robert.

Yeah, we're just about to start Chinese New Year going to the Year of the horse.

So, yeah, if you were born 12 years ago, 24 years ago, it's your year.

I'm not going any more than that. My math is not that good. So the whole country shuts down for

about 10 days from over the next few days. I'm not sure when this podcast goes out probably after

Chinese New Year. Oh, like maybe, yeah. But yeah, so it's going to be a nice time to spend time with family.

We're heading off tomorrow on the bullet train to my wife's hometown for a few days.

Lots of food, lots of fireworks.

Right. Wow.

And I mean, does it, because, you know, when my visit in China last year,

which was definitely life-changing experience

everything seemed so hyper vibrant and open and ready for action and you know in business

and working you know there was no I didn't see anyone lounging about this is the

this really does close down does it yeah completely so even now I look out the window, I look over, overlook a big road, and it's hardly any cars. You get to downtown in like 20 minutes. Usually takes an hour. So it's already started. A lot of workers have already gone home. Factory workers will stop. Yes, there's a lot of lounging around, a lot of TV watching, yeah.

Yeah, amazing, wow.

But anyway, you've also, because you're about to do another trip,

but you've just done, the trip you've just done does sound extraordinary and properly,

like this is a big shift in technology that you've just witnessed. Or I think it is, but do you think it is?

Well, now you've seen it.

100% it is.

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