Hi, James. Ben, how are you? I'm doing well. How are you? Yeah, pretty good, though, a little bit nervous. The first reported case of corona in Northern California just hit, which was a little bit troubling. Yeah, coronavirus is a type of virus.

Oh, thank you. Oh, sorry. No, it's been a thing because I've been writing about it in trajectory for a while. And it's

interesting. I think that maybe there's been a benefit

of being in Taiwan. I think I've been a little bit of

ahead of the curve on this. You know, thinking about

interruptions supply chain and

one of the great things with daily update podcasts is

can have interviews. And interviews

can not just be like transcriptions, but they actually have people on there. And the first one I did was a guy named Dan Wong, who's in China and study supply chains. And so we had a great discussion about that a

couple weeks ago. And now I think you're starting to see that sort of seep out that this is

going to be a bigger thing than expected. I believe the official name is something in the lines of like

COVID-19. People call it novel coronavirus, which basically just means

new coronavirus, which isn't very helpful either. I don't know. We had SARS. We had MERS. I don't

know why we couldn't come up with a new sort of catchy acronym. I think COVID-19 is the working name

right now. Very good. Well, the first reported case in Northern California, so a little bit

nerve-wracking. But you're right,

it's been interesting to see this play out. And it was like what was discussed during that

interview. I feel like there's a chance that what happened in 2008 with a financial crisis,

like we're about to experience the equivalent of that on the supply chain front. But I guess we'll

see. We'll see guess we'll see.

We'll see. We'll see. My sense is, I think China is very focused on getting factories up and

running. I think there may be a sense that this is uncontainable or the time for containment was

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