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Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Great America Show.

It's great to have you with us on this beautiful chilly, chilly day in America,

at least here on the east coast, the northeast, I should say,

a chilly, chilly day.

We're back from Phoenix, Arizona, where we spent the weekend at Amfest, some really terrific people there.

I was forced to spend the weekend with our friend here on the show, the great Mark Mitchell.

We were hip and hip, if you will, for the weekend, a terrific, terrific time.

I've got to give it to Amfest.

I've never been to one of their events before, but they do an absolutely terrific job,

an admirable job, taking care of all of us who attend there.

The hospitality was absolutely amazing.

They did this little thing for what they call influencers, so, you know, media personality

like us, where they really want us to come to the event.

They want us to cover it.

They want us to talk to the people.

They want us to interact with the crowds.

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