Hello everybody, Julie and Sean, John, Sean, sorry, I already messed up. I said Julie Julie and Sean and then I went Don and Julie

Don and Julie because I was thinking of Dennis Sean and Julie everybody hello welcome to what we're now calling Dennis and Julie with Dennis continuing to be in the hospital even with my bad attempt to getting our new name

right. It's great to be with you, Sean, Don. Likewise. Don, we now are gay apparel. Oh, well,

there we go. Already a segue into Christmas. Um, you know, just to start out front, I know that, as always, many people are wondering about Dennis,

and I have seen him many times.

I see him several times a week, and I am very happy to report that he is in excellent spirits.

Things are improving.

David and Marissa came out with a video speaking about his breathing difficulties,

so I feel comfortable telling you that he was on a trache, which you probably knew,

for a while, and he is still on that trache, but he is breathing more and more independently

of the trache, which is really good, because once he is

off of that, he can get back to speaking, which I know is perhaps the greatest thing that we

want for him is to be able to speak again. But in the meantime, we are communicating through these

kind of haphazard methods.

Anyone who's been with an ICU patient who for some reason or another can't speak but is nevertheless mentally competent, you know how it goes.

You have a letter sheet and the way that we communicate is we'll point to a row of letters,

you know, A, B, C, D, E, and then it goes F, G, H.I, and we'll go down

and he'll shake his head no, shake his head no at certain rows. And then when it's the right

row, we'll go over and he'll get to a letter. And then we'll write down that one letter.

And it takes a lot of time, as you can imagine, to spell out a full word. He also mouths words. But we were having a

really fun time the other day. Charlie Kirk came to visit the hospital, which was really lovely.

And Dennis said to us, I'm a changed man. And that's not surprising, but nevertheless, I asked

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