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Welcome to the Ar On Labs podcast.

I'm Bill Kennedy, and our special guest today is Ian Lewis.

Hey, and thanks for joining us today.

Yeah, no worries.

Thanks for getting up early for me.

Yeah, tell everybody where you are.

I'm in Japan. I'm in Tokyo, Japan, or at least close to Tokyo, Japan.

That is one of the few cities I have on my bucket list to visit.

I got out of the airport one time because they were transferring us from one airport

to the other, something with bad planes. I don't know what happened. So I got out of the airport one

time, but it was just a bus, right? So I haven't really seen that city yet. Well, it's, it's,

yeah, it's a nice place to live if, uh, though it's, it's one yeah, it's a nice place to live.

Though it's, it's one of those things that, like, if you, if you kind of know the language and you, like, can maybe deal with, like, some of the cultural differences, I guess, like,

it's a, it's a pretty, pretty nice place to live. I think it's, just there's a lot like the culture shock can be a

lot for some folks. But you've been there a long time. I want to talk about how you got there and all

that. But I mean, you've been there for for years, right? Yeah, I've been there for, or I've been here,

yeah, for let's see. I came in 2006, so like

that was, that would be like about 16 years ago, 15, 16 years ago. All right, I don't want to

get too ahead of ourselves. I kind of want to talk about how that happened. But before we do that,

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