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Now let's get you to your podcast.

Okay. you to your podcast. The shot show is alive and well.

Yeah, I hope you all are having fun there.

I'm not doing the shot show this year.

You know, the one part I do miss about the shot show is the supplier showcase.

And that is probably the most boring part for most people.

Right.

I went and it was like all the building things, you know, the machinist and the parts and the like the little buckles and all sorts of little things that you just, you just don't see, you know, behind the scenes stuff on how to build something.

And so walking through that, my mind is always like, oh, I wonder how we can change this or do this or whatever.

And so if I was to go, that was going to be it. But I didn't.

And this year, there's actually two product announcements.

It shot for Garmin.

One of them is the Alpha XL, which is what this podcast is going to be about.

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