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My name is Jason Heaton and I'm joined as ever by my friend and co-host James Stacey.

James it feels like forever since we spoke last and I think we're going to cover all the superlatives on this episode.

Yeah I think we're going to have a little bit of everything. Definitely been a couple of busy weeks.

We squeezed an episode in, you know, with Victor, between me

coming back from Geneva and then me going to Vancouver, you going to the West Coast for some

adventures. And yeah, we'll get into kind of all of that in this episode. But yeah, it's, it's good

to hear from me. How have you been more broadly? Yeah, good. You know, you both just back within a day or two. And I don't know, I was telling you earlier, I feel a little groggy. I feel like nine days on West Coast time. Not that I can complain to you because you were out there as well, but it just kind of set me on a weird, I don't know, trajectory here. I'm

feeling a little sleepy, a little kind of out of it. But anyway, I'm good enough to record. Let's

put it that way. Yeah, I definitely should have had another espresso before we jumped into this.

But we'll maybe it'll be a lower, a lower wavelength James today. We'll see.

Yeah, you know, one thing that did happen and uh it

happened on my trip which we'll get into later but um i managed to crush my iPhone last week um

and i've been without since then it's tuesday morning and it's i have never damaged a phone

i've never lost a phone. I've,

um, you know, knock on wood, this is the one off. But, uh, so I wasn't sure how it would be. You know, I mean, especially when you're on the road, a phone is kind of, I wouldn't say crucial, but it's super helpful. Obviously, I've got Apple Pay. I've got the airline, you know, boarding passes. I've got, you know,

Google Maps and

music and everything else on there, as we all do. So I wasn't sure how it would go. But, you know,

fortunately I had my laptop, which has I message so I could check messages and emails and that

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