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Hello everyone and welcome to a special interview. Yeah, we haven't done one of these in a while,

I know, but I'm excited to do it because our old pal, Chris Metson, is joining us. Chris,

welcome back. Thank you. How are you? I'm good, man. It's really good to have you back. Now,

it's weird because we talk a lot, just via text. We've had a few other conversations, like voice

conversations that weren't recorded for anybody to hear during the last couple of years, but for the

listeners, this is going to feel like a long time coming. Have you missed talking to the peeps? Well,

yeah, you know, it's, I mean, how to how to co-late the last number of years, you know, it's been,

I mean, what, yeah, it's like we all get it, right? Like, plagues and isolation and societal unrest

and all of it, right? Like, it's, you know, part, you know, just batshit crazy, pardon me. Yeah, a couple,

two years unprecedented in a lot of ways. For at least for our modern times, I feel like, you know,

I'm sure there's comparable historic events, but absolutely, you know, and just this weird,

it's like I know, you know, all of us felt it, just this weird kind of sense of isolation working

from home and, you know, you know, you know, there was that whole phase of, you know, kids going to

school from home and it's just been, you know, it's, it's been truly crazy. So just, you know, just this,

you know, kind of talking again and, you know, talking to you again and kind of putting signals out

again in the weird ways is, I don't know how to describe it. It kind of feels like kind of getting

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