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My name is James Stacey, and I'm joined as ever by my friend and co-host, Jason Heaton. Hey, Jason, how are we doing? I'm doing really well. Yeah, it's a great, uh, great Tuesday here. Um, we've got a, we've got a great guest and some great news and, um, the new cat is settling in just fine here, so we can give an update on that in a little bit here. But before that,

we've got some newsy stuff an update on that in a little bit

here but before that we've got some newsy stuff too yeah a little bit actually some some pretty big

news so we're going to gloss over the our weekly mention of the fantastic Vancouver and

Montreal Timepiece shows coming up at the end of April and the end of May you can get your tickets

at Timepiece Show.com I will be at the Vancouver show. I would love to see there if you're coming. And we've got a great party planned with Roldorf and Marathon details to follow on that. So just stay tuned. But the reason we're moving quickly is the CWN1 prototype auction has ended. It ended last night. It was very exciting. And Jason, I will not take any

shine from this. Jump right in. It was what a threat it was. What an exciting threat. I thought for sure,

you know, after we announced this and had that first week, there was a bit of a lull. And then the bids

started coming fast and furiously right up until the bell last night.

And yeah, what a tremendous result.

So, you know, without further delay, the winning bidder, for those who were on Slack,

obviously I already know this, but the winning bidder was Dwayne Gardner,

Dwayne G on Slack with a whopping, this makes me so happy to say, $6,000 bid, which he

already donated to Second Harvest, which almost brings tears to my eyes, how generous this community

is. And then we have to also give a shout out to Jan M. who kept the bidding going and

encouraged others to donate. And we'll get to that in a little bit here.

But his high bid was $5,750, and he went ahead and donated that as well.

So right there between those two guys, we've got close to $12,000 for Second Harvest.

Wow.

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