Hi, James. Ben, how are you? I'm doing okay. How are you? I'm doing pretty good.

It is the end of summer. We take our hiatus every summer. Weber Day has passed, and the people

demand a podcast. So they're getting a podcast. I'm not sure they'll be happy that their demands have

been satisfied. This might not be the podcast that they were looking for, but it's the podcast

they're getting.

It is indeed. And the hiatus, I think, is going to go on a bit longer. And I think we're not sure how long it will go on. It may be permanent. It may not be. But we are going to take a bit of a break from Exponent for the next little bit.

I think one of the things that we talked about over the course of the summer was four years is a long time.

I think we're up to this is, what, 155 episodes?

And one of the things that I think that we decided would be wise was to take a step back

and consider the format, make sure that we're bringing our all to every episode,

and make sure we're not just getting into the rut of like, you know, this is the thing we do

and we don't consider anything any more than it would be the case for one of the businesses

that we've analyzed over the past few years. I mean, that's a great way to put it. And I think

it really is genuine. Like, we made a commitment when to put it. And I think it really is genuine.

Like, we made a commitment when we started this podcast that we wanted it to be great.

And, you know, it's funny going back listening to the early ones.

They were actually, in many ways, not great.

I listened to one a few weeks ago, and the editing was so bad.

We were saying, um, constantly.

But I would like to think we've gotten better. I think we hit our stride definitely a couple years in. And it's been an amazing experience, but anything that's amazing, you'd rather sort of step back and consider it before it becomes painfully obvious to everyone that you should

step back and consider it. Right. And that's the plan. The one other thing, all those ums and ours ours someone gave us advice that we should go to toastmasters

and i think we discovered that a much easier way of dealing with that is post edit right well we i think

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