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My name is Jason Heaton and I'm joined as ever by my friend and co-host James Stacey in Toronto. James, how you doing? 360. That feels, I don't know, it's a kind of a nice number, isn't it? Yeah, it's a big, it's a big round number for sure. It's maybe the roundest number, depending on, depending on how you look at it. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm doing okay. You know, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a weird on depending on how you look at it yeah i'm i'm i'm i'm doing okay

you know it's a it's a it's a weird time to be you know on on the internet you know obviously

you're local to a lot of sort of unrest in the in the states how are things there you doing okay

uh well if i'm honest uh not not entirely okay i mean it's uh i'm based I'm based in Minneapolis for those that don't know.

But it's, you know, if you've followed the news at all,

you'll know that we've got some pretty serious goings on here

over the past week or two, specifically last week.

Someone was shot not far from where I'm sitting, less than a mile.

And there's a huge presence of, you know,

what do we call them, you know, federal agents, I guess, you know, all over here. And it's just,

it's gotten scary. I mean, it feels, you know, as someone who exists largely on the safe side

of things and remain largely unscathed,

it's just been kind of a scary place to live and see what's going on.

And knowing people that are affected has just been kind of rattling.

I was out to lunch yesterday with some friends and just a couple blocks away.

There was an intersection where these armored vehicles

went straight through the intersection and were kind of lobbing tear gas canisters out in the

street. I mean, this is the sorts of things that we don't usually think of happening in our

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