Hi, James. Ben, how are you? I'm doing okay. How are you? Yeah, good thanks. All things

considered. I'm busy. I'm telling you, I've complained on multiple podcasts at this point,

but what's another one? I feel like because no one is traveling or going anywhere,

what is usually the slowest month, August, is just insane. There's like stuff happening

constantly.

It started off where it got very slow in March, everyone was locked down and people

don't know what to do and people are nervous and obviously just this overwhelming sense

of doom.

And, you know, the weird thing is, obviously it's not that stuff has changed that much, but

we talked about this on the last episode.

People have sort of adapted. And now they're

like making up for a lost time. They're just like news coming out everywhere. Right. And no more so

than in the Capitol. That's right. So last week, last Wednesday, the antitrust subcommittee of the

Judiciary Committee in the House had a hearing with the Fortex CEOs, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Microsoft was notable by its absence, but it was clearly

a focus on consumer tech. And the reason I say that this was clear is not just because

Satchin Adele wasn't there, but it became pretty clear through the questioning that Tim Cook was only there because

they kind of wanted to say it they got all of them because they were not prepared to ask him

questions at all.

It was clear that all the work of the committee has been mostly focused on, I would say,

first and foremost, Amazon.

They had the most detailed stuff there.

They were pretty detailed about Google.

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