To infinite complacent people went to and fro of the earth about their little affairs,

serene in the assurance of their dominion over this small,

spinning fragment of solar driftwood, which by chance or design,

man has inherited out of the dark mystery of time and space. Thank you. I'm a lot of on this episode of into the fray i welcome brandon on with me and i have already mentioned mentioned this to Brandon prior to us officially recording,

but I wanted to bring it up again because it is a good point to me being me sometimes. And just,

I know Brandon was very gracious and said, don't worry about it. Life happens. Things happen. But

Brandon and I first started emailing back and forth about him coming on the show

back in 2020, for God's sake. And he kind of re-emeled me and said, hey, just circling back

around. And I'm like, oh, my gracious, I am so very sorry. I don't even remember what happened there.

I have no good excuse or reason why it is just now happening.

So Brandon, for me to say to everyone out there,

if you have emailed me at some point and maybe I never got back to you at all,

just poke me again, send another email and say,

hey, yeah, out there still, knock. And yes, I wholeheartedly apologize. And Brandon, welcome on the

show finally. Well, thank you. Yeah, it's been a long time coming. But, you know, like I said,

it's all good. Life happens. Things happen.

And you kind of got to get to some stuff when you get to it.

I actually, what made me reach back out to you, aside from like listening to the show and whatnot, I had, you had made an Instagram video.

And I saw it on Instagram because I follow you on Instagram also.

And I was like, oh, yeah.

I was like, I was like, we never talked.

I'm the worst. I'm so sorry. And because people are probably like, well, into the

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