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Hey guys, it's Dylan, your Friday tech show host.

It's Friday, March 27th, and as you've probably figured out, or maybe you've

been told by our producer Austin Morgan, I've been out of touch for a little bit. On February 29th, I left DC to head to the Grand Canyon for a three-week

rafting trip down the Colorado River and at the time there were about a hundred total coronavirus cases in the US.

The S&P 500 was at about 3,000 and I think very few of us were really feeling the impact of any of that here in the United States.

And I set out for the trip knowing that it was likely that things would be worse when I got back, but frankly I didn't anticipate this.

And I also didn't know what was happening as it was happening.

You see on the river... know what was happening as it was happening.

You see on the river, we didn't have a cell phone service,

wouldn't have Wi-Fi.

Really the only contact that we had with the outside world

was a satellite phone, and that was only really to be used during emergencies.

But we had this trip planned and we'd been working on this for about a year.

You have to get permits for this trip.

And we were excited to go out and unplug and get into nature.

The Colorado River is a really excellent place to raft and it has these

legendary rapids like Crystal and Lava and these wonderful places you can

explore like Redwall Cavern and you know the hope was that this would be a good reset and a chance to get away from

some of the things that can be stressful in life and kind of focus on being

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