Well, hey there, guys. Greetings and salutations and welcome to this installment of Open Mic,

the show, where the mic is open. The floor, as they would say, is yours. What do you guys want to

talk about tonight? That is what we are here to do. I am, of course, your host, John Campia.

Good to have you guys here. And on open mic,

it's pretty simple here. I usually start off with a simple topic that I want to discuss for a few

minutes. And then we spend the rest of the evening doing the important things, which is taking

your live topics, questions, comments, whatever it is you guys have. Now, the way you send in a top or a question on open mic is not by using our tip link,

which is what you normally use for the John Campia show, but rather by using the super chat

feature there in the live chat of the channel, and that's how you send in a question

for the show.

So good to have you guys here joining me tonight. By the way, I do open

mics all by myself. It's just me, so I don't have any technical support. So please do let me know

if the sound is okay, if the picture is okay. Just let me know that you guys were able to see and

hear me okay. No problem. That, of course, is the main issue here. So good to have you guys were able to see and hear me okay no problem that of course is uh the

main issue here so good to have you guys here now this is what i want to talk about today before

we get started on the important stuff which is of course your questions so this morning i'm

going through all the show notes and i thought our lead topic today was going to be the question about

Mahershal Ali and whether or not he is still indeed our blade because not only has it been six years.

Yes, you heard that right.

Six years since they announced Mahershaw Leah's blade.

They announced him when he was 45 years old. He is now 51 years old. And the last time I

checked, he isn't getting younger. Not that he's too old. I'm just, you know, starting off a

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