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Let's try now. We'll try it again. We, of course, have Kirk Henderson here from Mab's Moneyball,

and now joining us the managing editor of D.C.O. Magazine, Ben Swanger, who got that coveted

invite. I don't know how I got it, but yes, I did.

I was in that room with about 15 media members.

We sat in there for about an hour.

I think I have 57 minutes or so on my recording.

So, yeah, I was in that room.

You're recording, huh?

So there was recording.

Yeah, so last night, the invite came out about 645.

It was, it came. It was really short. It said no audio recording will be done. And then this morning,

when we got into the room, Mavs PR stood up and said there would be no live tweeting, there'll be no live

streaming of this, and she made no mention of audio recording. So one of the folks in the room

asked, can we record this? And she said, if you must, you can, but you cannot release the raw

audio. But we will send a transcription of it later, which I still do not have the transcription

of almost, what is it, almost three o'clock.

So that's five hours later.

Well, I can give you a preview, Ben.

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