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James, how are we doing up there in snowy maybe Toronto or is it warm now? It's warmer today but it's been pretty snowy.

We're kind of in that middle where it's like

there's a you know there's piles of six feet of snow everywhere but I can see grass as

well yeah yeah we're recording this March 1st it you know it's it weird time to talk to feel like talking about anything.

Yeah. The last week since we recorded the last episode obviously the crisis in Ukraine is kicked off.

Yeah. It's been very, very preoccupying.

I just don't quite know how to approach it.

You know, personally, it's just, I've been sort of glued to news feeds

and not terribly interested or enthralled with with

social media feeds which is you know for better or for worse it feels a little bit discordant

to kind of scroll and look at watch photos or post watch photos on the other hand life

goes on for people and you have to kind of find little bits of joy in everyday life but boy

it's difficult these days I mean it's been it's been pretty

depressing to to see what's going on and very very sad so we don't you know we don't

often discuss world affairs or politics that's not the purpose of this show and

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