Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs. Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable themes that let you build your brand. Marketing tools that get your products out there. Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time. From startups to scale ups, online, in person and on the go shopify is made for

entrepreneurs like you sign up for your one dollar a month trial at shopify.com slash setup

welcome Welcome, everybody to a special major announcement.

We started up with our little lounge music there because John is at his parents' house or something, and he is lounging leisurely with his microphone on what I think is a bed.

I'm laying out of bed.

I look like I'm in Mexico or something against a...

Yeah, you do.

Yeah, you look like you've been abducted.

You look like a kidnap victim.

I look like, like Mark Claire did for about a year when he was, when he was podcasting from the jungles of Mexico.

Right.

Yeah, exactly.

Well, that's actually an interesting segue because we are going to be making a major announcement today about somebody joining us.

And we do have a video of the newest lion. And in his video, he actually

also looks like he is podcasting from some sort of jungle. We'll play that momentarily. But I do

what to say, Odie, you know, I'm excited about this edition. I think people are going to know

this man, love this man. And it's good to have

somebody with lengthier hair back on the show. Because ever since we lost Mark, we don't really have a

beardy, long-haired person. And I think that's pretty much what was missing from the components.

Yeah. I mean, if we're going to be a libertarian leaning podcast, you need a, yeah,

someone along here bring the, a little bit of the hippie vibe.

Not to say that this new member is, is a hippie.

...