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Jason how are we doing? I'm doing pretty well it's a wintery day I'm looking out

the window and we've got a lot of snow falling very quickly that's going to pile up it's kind of

fitting for today's guest and topic.

Oh yeah.

Yeah we had we had the Thanksgiving holiday last Thursday and then a kind of a long weekend that was that was quiet and

pleasant just to spend it with the family and and here we are I mean actually I

spent a good part of the weekend kind of perusing our newly launched

Slack community, the TGM Slack community, that response has been incredible.

Yeah, it really has. I didn't

super know what to expect in terms of enrollment we you know sent the email out very

late Wednesday night so I figured it would be kind of slow because it was a

holiday weekend people kind of trickle into the email that sort of thing and

that really wasn't the case so we're pushing the better part of 500 people in there from all over the world. We're getting the

craziest wrist shots and some great adventure chat, the driving stuff like

the cars man. Yeah right? The cars are wild there's some great stuff I'm I'm having an

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