Hi, James.

Ben, how are you?

Good.

It has been a long time.

I have to say our powering through streak definitely fell flat on its face.

So, uh, alas.

Yeah, I guess.

Yeah, I don't have anything for it.

So as you mentioned, two weeks ago, I was on vacation and traveling.

So I'm going to give us a pass then.

Last week, I couldn't do it. I had too much going on and it did not happen.

And I did not power through. I failed. I believe you are the powering through champ. I am the

loser. I hand you the crown and salute you. I appreciate it. I must confess that like, I mean,

the obvious topic last week was going to be Apple. And really nothing about that excited me so much where I was like,

oh my God, we must get on the mic and start recording. It was just a bit. I did give you the

option of powering through. I'm like, look, if you really want to talk about the event,

I'll figure out a way to make it work. And you're like, no, not really. Which, frankly,

is probably the topic that we should have talked about is why are you not excited to talk about this topic? Yes. Well, that's probably true. But maybe that's a topic for another day because I think there's something else we should talk about today.

I did write about Apple last week. So you can go check that out if you want my thoughts about the event on Chachry.

I have not written a weekly article this week. I did write a daily update yesterday about YouTube. And in passing, by the way,

I also wrote about Mark Zuckerberg's op-ed about regulation and whatnot. And with some references

to the European copyright issue, which I've also written about previously. We'll put links to all

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