Let's try that again.

Welcome to the Stratosphere Lounge.

I'm your host Bill Whittle.

Hopefully I should be sounding good. I swapped out the microphone for a real one so we're just

gonna gonna go with that so everybody can hear me okay I suppose hope. Let's just double check this thing because it's always a little tough.

Okay, so here we are.

It's the 12th of January, 2023.

Oh good, it sounds better. Yeah, it was a real mic.

So, yeah, I even hit the Oh good, it sounds better. Yeah, it was a real mic.

So, yeah, I even hit the record button, so, you know, just what a strange world.

Hang on one second.

Yes, we're recording as well.

So I don't know any way really to cover this up. I just got gobsmacked.

I just plain gobsmacked earlier today, and I can't talk about it,

but I can't also pretend to be chipper.

I would have rescheduled the show, but I've rescheduled the show more often than I've had it on time, actually.

So I just thought I would come on the show and just kind of soldier through the questions, give us a chance to catch up.

And then I will, you know, then I will go home, I guess.

And I'm sorry to be so mysterious, but I just didn't want everybody to think I was just in a surly mood for no reason.

I've just, it was really, really something.

Okay, so why don't we just for once get ourselves right to the questions and see what we can figure out about that.

Let's start with Billwittle.com and then we'll try and get to the Facebook ones as well.

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