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thegraynato.com for more details. My name is James Stacey, and I'm joined as ever by my pal and co-host, Jason Heaton. Jason, how are we doing? I'm kind of cold, actually. It's, uh, it's been, it's been really, really cold here. I was out walking, walking Ruby this morning and it's, you know, Fahrenheit minus something.

And, yeah, but, you know, holding my own here. You know, just last week when you asked me this question, we kind of got into some things that stirred things up a bit on the slack.

And I'm, you know, we, I'm not going to apologize for it, but I also feel like, you know, we dropped a bit of a bombshell on our poor moderators who had.

Yeah, apologies to the moderators are incredible moderators.

And just thanks to everybody or, you know, most you for for keeping things civil and and and

kind of tolerant with with all of that that happened last week and you know I appreciate all the

kind of private and public comments that people made to me in the meantime so that's great so

we appreciate that but yeah how are you doing up there in Canada? It sounds like it's cold there too. And you sent me a photo. You got dumped with snow. Dude, we've been hit with a bunch of snow in Toronto. And don't get me wrong, I think there's actually places a little bit further out that got more. So my condolences, of course. But it was one of those days like that. There was one day, thankfully,

it was like relatively light snow in terms of its weight. It was very airy, powdery sort of stuff. But I shoveled three or fours. Like I spent two hours of my workday shoveling just to keep up with it. Yeah. But yeah, no, it's cold. I don't have a ruby to walk. I took the garbage out this morning. was just very disappointed in how cold it was.

You know, I think this has become almost a trite

cliche for the show, but this is that time of year where you just, I'm already thinking about

the cottage. I'm going, well, maybe it'll be in early spring. Maybe it'll be, you know, maybe by the

time I get back from watches and wonders that, that weekend or, or that sort of thing, we'll be ready to roll to start enjoying a little bit of the warmer weather. But I'm just, you know, I'm not built that well for the winter. I should make a better effort to, like, go out and enjoy it. Yeah. But I find, you know, I start work, you know, 6, 6.30 in the morning.

And by the time I'm done and finish dinner enjoy it. Yeah. But I find, you know, I start work, you know, six, six 30 in the

morning. And by the time I'm done and finished dinner, it's eight, eight 30. And I just like, it's one thing to be out in the cold when it's nice and sunny. That's, that's quite enjoyable. Maybe you go for a little walk or, or throw some skis on or snow shoes or whatever. I'm not that far from a spot called Jefferson Forest.

Yeah.

But unless I,

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