Hey good afternoon everyone welcome to the conversations that matter podcast I'm traveling right now I'm in Massachusetts for one day one day

To see some beautiful false scenery. It's probably the first sort of break I

guess I don't know it's kind of a half break from a lot of the work we've been

doing on our home in New York trying to get it ready to move into.

So it's peak foliage right now and just hopefully if you're following me on social media I'll try to remember to take some

pictures and post them so you all can see kind of what's going on and it's

funny I actually went into town this morning to get a toothbrush because I, that's just how it works, right?

Whenever you go away, even if it's for a night or two, you forget your toothbrush, at least I do.

There's always something, I forget, and usually it's the toothbrush at least I do. There's always something I forget and usually it's

the toothbrush so got to go get a toothbrush and I walk into a CVS and and of course I forget my wallet and I realize while I'm on the way.

And so I have to find a place. I've only done this twice in my life. I used Apple Pay on my phone.

And so I ask him, do you have Apple Pay? they have Apple pay and then the guy at the counter goes you're not from around here are you? I said no and he goes I could tell with that accent and I thought I don't think I have much of an accent but there might be a slight southern I mean we were

living four years in the south so maybe I picked up some of that and probably all the country

music I listened to it it probably contributes a little bit or else I don't

know but they they have thick New England accents where I am right now and it's just

it's New England everywhere so by the way there's there's no better place to be. Maybe Canada. I haven't been to Canada in the fall. But New England fall and winter, winter to some extent, Christmas time New England it's it's pretty incredible

of course the places that still celebrate Christmas because New England's pretty

pagan and unfortunately a lot of what used to be there isn't there anymore, but I do digress.

I wanted to talk today a little bit about Francis Collins and just what has been, now I guess it's been a few days that his, the story of him leaving the National

Institute of Health has been talked about and examined.

And I came across an article that I thought was really good.

In fact, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna read it to you.

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