Hi, James. Ben, how are you?

Fingers crossed. Fingers crossed. Our apologies for the audio issues last week. We actually, we do double-end recording.

Like, we're all very high tech in advance about how we do this. And we actually happen to both jointly have issues on both our heads and our computers.

But I think we haven't fixed this week, so sorry about that. We promise to do

better. Everything that could go, could go wrong, did go wrong. Like, problems on both ends and the

internet was playing up. It was, it was not a good week. Right. We started with, we knew the internet was a

problem. And I think what actually happened was we missed issues that were happening because we just

blamed it on the internet being a problem.

And anyhow, I mean, this is the downside, I guess, of not having, you know, sort of like a boss, an editor, a gatekeeper, if you will, to, you know, us putting it out ourselves, we sometimes grew up in our, our apologies.

I was going to do a different segue. I was going to be like, it's so easy to blame things on the

internet, isn't it? Also works. Also works. It seems to be the thing to do these days. Right.

So I wrote this week about this really horrific set of stories, originally first in the New York Times

and then in the New Yorker about Harvey Weinstein, the longtime Hollywood producer, and what was

really decades of predatory behavior towards women. I mean, there's always been the sort of, quote,

unquote, jokes about the casting

couch. And this was a at least one situation where it wasn't a joke. It was reality and it

was terrible. And it went on for a very long time. And lots of people kind of seem to know about it,

but no one would actually write about it or do anything about it. And that's terrible.

And it goes without saying, but I'm more than happy to say it, condemn it in the strongest possible terms.

Right.

And it's topics like this, they are incredibly emotional.

And that condemnation is important.

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