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Well, we are just in a classic game of phone tag, Kirk.

Everybody's in a classic game of phone tag with me for one reason. It drives me crazy,

even though I fully support what you're doing.

Explain. Because I call you and it doesn't ring.

It just goes right to your answering machine, like 99% of the time.

Do people say answering machine anymore?

Voice mail.

Right to voice.

I know.

And I think, oh, Kirk.

Oh, good for you. That's how it should be. Yeah, that's exactly what my

response is every time I get like inordinately upset and then very proud of you in like two split

seconds back to back. Wow, that's a wide range of emotions in such a short time. Well, I only call

if I like have something I want to discuss. Right then. Yeah. Right then. Otherwise, I'll text you and you'll get back to me when you get back to me. But if I have a moment, like, hey, I really, let's get a quick answer. And then I don't get the the answer. Then I just like, I'm very selfish. So I live and do not disturb because I'm like as type A as it gets with responding to people.

And so if I see it, I like must respond immediately. And I found I'm more productive if I just live and do not disturb. But there is a hack. And that hack is if you call twice in a row, the second call goes through.

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