Hello and welcome to episode 307 of AvTalk. I am Ian Petchinik here, as always with

Jason Rabidowitz. Hello, Ian. What's up? Hello, Jason. Well, it's been a week of time that has felt like much longer than a week since the last time we sat down to record a podcast.

So I've been through a whole home illness and we're bouncing back.

So that's been not fun.

No, it doesn't sound fun at all.

I hope you're doing less.

I am apparently doing better than you, which is, I mean, it doesn't mean I'm doing

great, but I'll take it.

But you'll take it.

No, so it's on the upswing, so I apologize.

I say that to say that my voice is not 100%.

So if you're listening to Pott, I'm going, Ian sounds different.

That's why. So still on the

end here. But we've got snow on the ground here in Chicago, and we're getting more. So our first

honest to goodness snowfall of the year, and it's the middle of February. So which is really strange

because at least here in New York, we've had snow a couple times.

D.C. and the Virginia area has been walloped a couple times the last couple weeks.

I want a walloping. I want to be walloped.

The southeast has also been rightfully walloped a few times recently.

In Chicago, you haven't had snow yet until this week?

I mean, we've had snowfall,

but this is the first time people were going, oh, it's actually going to snow more than,

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