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688 for August 16th, 2023 where I count it down to Starfield at this point, which is a good, good feeling. I'm Ryan McCaffrey. Very, very happy to be back here after Disneyland and then COVID, which I got at Disneyland.

I made it three and a half years. I've gone the whole I'd never had it and and I'm lucky I got off pretty easy because it felt like I had the flu for about a day and a half like

achy and when I did go to urgent care, just because it was over a weekend, like my doctor, you know, his office is closed. I just wanted to get the packs.

Loved it. I've heard from him. That's helpful. So I went and they confirm that I had it, which I already knew from that home test, but my temperature got up to like 102.8.

Oh my God. So I was like, oh, and I don't think it's been that high. I like in decades. Wow. Many, many decades, but

Advil took it right down and it was I got off pretty easy. It wasn't wasn't too bad, but still not quite in a was not suitable for for podcasting last week. Yeah.

Or is, you know, either obviously I couldn't be here, but even remotely. It was good to just lay low for a little while, but happy to be back.

And Stella Chung is to my left. How are you?

I'm excited. I'm going to Gamescom this Friday. Well, we're leaving earlier, but yeah.

Did you go last year? Is this your first one? I did. I went last year. Yeah. I know we did the whole. My first Gamescom.

That's right. I couldn't. Yeah. Last year was your first one. I think we had talked about that and given you a bunch of tips. Yes.

Did you go to the to the top of the cathedral? I did not, but I went inside, but I didn't go to the top, but this time I think I'm going to ration my time out a little bit more.

So I think I'll do that. It's real because it's the only tall thing in downtown. Like it's the only. You just have a beautiful view of the Rhine River.

Oh, that's wonderful. And then there's a, I probably said this last year, there's an awesome like Roman history because the city was founded by Romans.

Right. There's a Roman history museum right next door to the cathedral. Oh, really? If you've got a couple hours. Okay. Super worth it. Cool.

Really good. Hey, oh, there's other people. Oh, yeah. Right. Hi guys. Sorry. I'm going. I'm going to chime in and host a spawn on me. Khalif Adams. Good to see you, my friend.

Good to see you. Glad to have you back. It was nice to see that you were getting yourself back in back in mode. I also wanted to thank the two unlock fans who said they liked my new beardless look.

I wanted to thank you. You can say that on Twitter. This, this was actually just, this was a mistake.

I messed up a trim and actually just went all the way because I've done that. Yeah, that's the thing where you, where you mess up and you go a little bit too far.

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