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Hey, Nick.

Hello.

How are you doing for the show?

I sure am. How's it going? How are you today? Where are you today?

I'm doing good. I'm in California. I'm at the, where am I? I'm at the

Carmel Valley Ranch. It's an unbound collection hyatt. Unbound. And yeah, unbound. So I don't know what

that means. Is that what that means. Totally unbound.

I think it means that there's no bounds to how much they'll charge you if you're paying cash.

But I came at a fairly inexpensive time and I booked it with fine hotels and resorts.

So we got a upgrade.

The baseroom is a junior suite, but we're in a big suite with a separate, completely separate, you know, living room and sort of a dining nook and a big deck and bedroom and everything.

So it's very nice, very beautiful around here.

We just went for a little hike.

And, you know, after having woken up this morning in Michigan, where there was snow everywhere,

to then get here in time to actually have lunch in California in the sunshine and then go for a walk was great.

Yeah, that sounds nice because it has been blustery and cold here in upstate New York today.

Oh, really?

Everywhere, yeah.

Yeah, I woke up to a bunch of it on the ground today.

But so you mentioned it's an unbound collection.

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