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gray NATO.com for more details. My name is James Stacy and if you're looking for a

best pal to make a podcast with I recommend a fellow named Jason Heaton but he's

currently busy because he's my co-host for this episode and about 300 other ones over the last few years. How's it going,

I'm doing well, you know, I was thinking like I'm just about to head off to the UK here tomorrow night and I'm like this

what is it about June and July every year is like the time of the time of year you want to like chill out and like sit in the backyard or like you go to the cottage and it gets so busy I think everybody

kind of gets whipped up into this like productive mode and I just feel like

being pulled in 10 different directions it's all good stuff it's all fun stuff but it's like

it's just nutty yeah my I mean so you know just with the

way work's going these days my summer's changed three or four times in the last two

weeks so yeah it's it's definitely becoming significantly. I think like I think if you go back I don't think because I can remember saying it several times

I'm quite confident if you go back and listen to you know the episodes in January and February you'll hear a lot of me in the first five minutes of the show saying like I can't wait for summer to slow down a little bit.

Yeah, true, yeah. Speaking of things coming up this summer, we do have wind-up plans. We had a nice meeting with that team and with the team from Citizen last week

So we're gonna be doing something essentially 10 a.m. on Sunday at venue west. It's gonna be a breakfast

It's gonna be a chit-chat with some folks from Citizen and it's going to be a breakfast. It's going to be a chit chat with some folks from citizen and it's going to be a chance to

Peruse the show during what's otherwise I guess like a press hour or a preview hour

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