Hi James. Ben, how are you? I'm doing okay. How are you? I must confess to have been feeling a little

under the weather this week. I've got some tummy bug or something that's been giving me a little bit of

consternation. And it's one of these things that's always in the background and it just puts a dampener on

things. But the show must go on. So I will do my utmost to buck up and pay attention for the next 60 minutes.

Yes, salute to you because neither us are traveling this week,

but we were able to keep up the narrative of us powering through to get the podcast done.

So I really appreciate you getting sick this week.

I haven't figured out my melody for next week, but I'll let you know when we get there.

This is just turning into like a sad story at the start.

Feel sorry for us.

Boo-hoo.

So, well, you can sit on the couch and maybe take a day off and watch some Netflix.

Yeah, well, I would, except for the fact that I think I might be like the last person left in the United States not to have a Netflix account.

Interesting.

You are not actually

alone, in fact. Actually, only about half of households in the United States have a Netflix account,

which given the sort of pervasiveness of Netflix generally and particularly some of the

memes that have arisen in the last month in particular, may be shocking, but you are not alone.

I think it's true. I may be alone in just being a mildly

nervous about subscribing to something that's so devastatingly effective in creating content

that will have you sitting in front of the television, though. And that's my main reason for not

giving them my money. I'm curious about the content, but I just don't want to watch TV. And I feel

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