Welcome back to New World next week.

I'm James Corbett of Corporate Report.com.

And I'm James Evan Palado for Mediamonickey.com.

These days, clowns tend to get involved.

We've got that story.

Plus, no more pillow talk.

But first, let me say again, a huge thanks to you, James Corbett, for an amazing time in Japan.

Had a fantastic time.

You were an amazing, gracious host for me and my wife.

We had an amazing time.

And now here we are.

Back 10 years, you know, plus one here, old and new world next week.

The crazy thing was, we made it out 24 hours ahead of the latest typhoons and earthquakes. All the, all the flights behind us

were canceling. We were even kind of checking to see that we were going to be okay to get out in time.

And we were out in time. And again,

you know, it's running from things that, again, we booked this trip months and months and

months in advance, having the sort of luck of 24 hours. I really can't explain.

Seeing cities like Beijing and Guangzhou on the departures board in the airport made me again think of just how small the world really is, James.

While I was able to kind of stay for the most part off of the news during the trip, I don't really have a cell phone, so that makes it easy to be off of the news.

I did see a couple of stories about how everybody from mega DJs to NBA teams and especially the head of Hong Kong, none of those folks can escape the influence of most favored nation, James. The latest I got for you.

Hong Kong leader jeered out of legislative council during policy speech. This coming from the epopoch Times and everything we say in play,

always included in your show notes. Hong Kong leader Kerry Lamb was forced to abandon her

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