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It's amazing to see you.

It's wonderful to see you.

Oh, thank you.

It's true.

It's nice to be seen, Tom, after all these years.

Yeah, well, maybe we could start there.

It was a choice that you made to kind of just not record for a while or take time on.

And I understand that, by the way.

How many years were you on the road?

And I think that's where I'd like to start.

I don't know how you guys do that

excuse me Tom I I don't mean to interrupt you but you need to be closer to your

Mike Steve's about twice as loud as you that's okay okay there you know Steve there you

go there you go yeah I do have kind of weird as you still closer I said I'm fine with

that okay can you hear me now because I want to beautiful I'm still pissed off

okay yeah I have a little bit of a projective type voice I wonder why that I said, I'm fine with that. Okay, can you hear me now? Because I'm beautiful. I'm still pissed off. Is this okay?

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