Hey, Steven. I just wanted to let you know that Tony Wang's nine-year-old daughter is having a birthday, and he wanted me to wish her, her, his daughter a birthday.

Tony Wang, his daughter's nine. Okay, that's very important to get out there. Okay, but bye, bye, by Stephen.

Where are you, Stephen? Are you out buying a Subaru or something right now?

We made the decision this week that I'm going to fly solo. Sorry to disappoint anybody who wants to

hear the banter back and forth with Stephen, even though he only talks for like 12.5% of an

episode. Can someone do the math on how many, what is the percentage of

Stephen getting airtime versus me? If anybody does that, please text us at the text line number,

which Stephen doesn't have because he's not here. I have it somewhere. Jared, where's your

text line number? I don't know. It's, it's 313 something or other. It's in the show notes. Okay. It's in the show notes. So anyway, the reason I'm going about this alone today is we have a lot of stuff to get done. We are up against the gun on a bunch of different projects. One being the Kickstarter for the next book, which I've named book two, 22 years of music photography, as we've

talked about for the past couple of weeks. Now, I want to get that out in the next, before

October is over. I want it, the Kickstarter kind of done before the, before Thanksgiving,

before the holiday spending season, because I just feel like I want to get it

done and in the can and have people make their purchases so that they're not worried about it long

term. And then the book would probably be shipped sometimes in February or March. That's just how

it would be. It gets on the, it gets printed after the Kickstarter is final

in November. And then it has to get shipped in freaking January and it's got to come on a container

ship and it's expensive to do that. And that's just the nature of doing business. There's other things

I want to talk about with the book. But that's one of the things why Stephen isn't here today.

And no, he's not actually out buying a Subaru that I know of just yet. I will say that that Subaru

commercial was hilarious. I finally listened to it because I don't listen to the episodes back.

I made the episode. Why do I need to listen to the episode? We made it. So whatever. But I

listened to what Stephen did. And it was really good with the added jingle.

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