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Grenado.com for more details. James were we're on opposite sides of the world and we've both come back from her at least you came back from a

A trip abroad and I'm still abroad so how's it going over there in Toronto? You know things are fine. I've kind of I'm in the middle phase of losing my voice. It kind of turns out I haven't spoke this much in a long time. Yeah. It was a lot of, you know, 18 hour days of talking and yelling over loud music in the evenings and all that kind of stuff in Geneva.

It was a great trip with the Hodinky team.

We got a lot of work done and saw some great watches, which is, you you know a big part of what we'll

chat about today but I promise I might be a little on the tired side and a

little on the froggy side as far as my voice goes but I hope it just adds some gravitaz to the to the

ceremony today. How are you doing? You've had you've had an interesting 24 hours?

Yeah, yeah, I mean it's been a kind of an interesting week for you at this point. Yeah, yeah, I mean I'm in Sri Lanka people don't know from from our last discussion, but you know it's funny we're operating at about I think about 11

and a half hours difference so for me it's what time is it here it's a little after

5 p.m. and you're operating at a little after like 7.30 a.m. so it's yeah this is a pretty early for me.

Yeah right. Yeah. I'm I'm still fighting some jet lag so I'm sleepy you're probably sleepy because you're just

waking up but yeah we landed here last Friday in the wee hours and we landed in the

middle of a curfew because the government the government I believe is on its way out, the current government here in Sri

Lanka. It's been in the news if anybody's been following, but there's been some mismanagement

of the economy and fuel shortages and power cuts and the public

is quite upset.

So there have been a lot of street protests which have resulted in curfews. We had a full curfew over the weekend, so kind of lockdown in the

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