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Now let's get you to your podcast.

Okay. podcast. So I think we should start this off and address the fact that in true

W fashion, we were right on time with our calendars this year

always it always ends up me being the day before thanksgiving driving into

Portland to go try and grab them what's traffic like that day um that's never good i don't that's

true i don't have a judge any i can't i can't tell you what's normal anymore because i don't

do it so like it's been well shoot since 2012 since i've had to commute that every day and drive through there for going to Intel.

So now I don't, I can pretty much avoid it for the most part.

It's horrible.

I think it took me about 45 minutes, an hour to go.

Yeah, it took me a couple, an hour or so to get through one way.

So it was like a two hour trip for me, you know, what should be probably 45 minute to an hour trip.

Yeah.

So that's how it is when I leave the shop, though. Like if I were to leave on a Friday night, I figured this out real fast. Yeah. So that's how it is when I leave the shop, though.

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