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Recording on Sunday, April 18th, that's about 9 o'clock at night in beautiful Bonderant inside of the

Psych and Phonetic Home Office here in my basement.

Welcome, and it's good to have Bloom back in the flesh.

The Bloom flu is over.

We'll get into that here momentarily.

Before so, I want to thank our friends from Meckdine and the Meckdine Corporation

Enabling Discovery as I tell you each and every week, but we're getting new listeners the good thing about this

Sunday night pot I feel like we're adding about a hundred

listeners per week right now looking at the metrics so that's great we appreciate

y'all listening in and I want to convince you to check out meckdyne.com and go to their careers page and take a look at all of their job listing.

Now I know their guy, I know their CEO, I know the guys who are running the show there. They love Iowa State. Love, love, love, love, love, love,

I was State. If you're an Iowa Stater, if you love, they'd love to interview you and they've got all sorts of different opportunities.

You don't just have to be a really smart systems engineer or an AV engineer.

You could be one of those and get a job. Or you could just be, maybe you want to be a, like a desk consultant or something like that. They've got great benefits located in Marshalltown and all over

the globe. Meckdine. You want to spell that for the people. Yes. Yeah. Thank you, Bloom.

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