Hi, James. Ben, how are you?

I'm doing pretty good. How are you?

I'm doing well. Before the show, you sent me a photo of a new addition to your family.

Oh, yeah, I think we'll have seen that on Instagram. Yeah, we got a puppy much to my, so this is how it goes. I, you know, I had a dog growing up. I understood what work goes into it.

I, the family, of course, always wanted a dog. And I kept saying, no, no, no, no. In a moment

of weakness, I gave in. And we had the dog. And as predicted, I'm willing to take care of it.

And it's a pain in the rear end, and she pees and poops. And and of course the worst part of it is you end up getting attached to the dog

and then you're and then it's then you're host once you're attached you're done i know it's terrible

the stupid little dog is running my life it's terrible there you go so hopefully no barking during

the podcast but we she was here last week and did okay and she's she's kind of knocked out so

this is this is uh the new season's garbage truck song that we have.

We can't hear the garbage truck.

We now have a puppy instead.

Well, it is starting to get warmer here, and I had to close all the windows because

what great about this, my new offices, I have not just multiple windows, but they're on

different walls so you can get kind of a breeze going through.

But there is some, it sounds like some lawn cutting or some lawn milling going on.

And so the windows are closed. It's a little toasty. But we are here. We are powering through.

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