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Hey there, hi, there, and welcome to And welcome to episode 33 of connecting with Walt.

I am your host and is historian Michael Bowling. And I am joined by my co-host, producer, and good friend

Tom Bell. Tom, how are you today? I am doing well. We've both had a busy week. I just wanted to say thank you

to all of those fans that popped up on Facebook and wished me a happy birthday. That's always

nice to see familiar names from the from the Disney past popping up and just sending sending their

bus switches so good good yeah I had a busy weekend at OzConn International I'll

talk a little more about that you know later on in the show and then of course I come home

and every once in a while, like, goes through these

phases where technology just goes against me. It rebels. So it's like, yesterday I get home,

and I'm on my iPad. iPad just suddenly the screen, touch screen stops working. So that's's not great so I looked it up on Google

you know why and I do the rebooting that they say to reset the software doesn't work and all that

so they take it in the Best Buy where I bought it like eons ago and they do factory reset and all that doesn't work.

So I had to buy a new iPad.

They've gone up significantly in price.

And I didn't even buy top of the line.

Yeah, I keep delaying it, buying a new phone because it's like every time I think about buying a new one,

they're in talks of upgrading to another series.

So it's like, well, and that's the other problem with my phone is that little charging part at the bottom.

It no longer holds the chargers in it.

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