Hi, James.

Ben, how are you?

Not great, to be honest.

I was going to say happy new year, but...

Yeah, I personally am doing very well.

This is like a...

I mean, this is the story of the past forever, right?

I personally am doing quite well.

I'm having a great day.

You know, woke up, had a good night's sleep, got a lot of work done this morning and feeling good about as far as energy speaking,

as far as writing this afternoon. Just the actual what I'm going to write and the circumstances

of the world in which I'm going to write it is not great. That feels like a recurring theme

sitting from your perch in Taiwan over the past 12 months.

Oh, let's not talk about that.

No one wants to hear about that.

Yep.

Okay.

Fair enough.

So we are emergency podcasting, although we're due for one.

I think we missed a summer.

In the context of, it's weird because I think there's been a desire to, at least on my part, to avoid hyperbole in part because the reason you don't want to be hyperbolic in your statements or overstate anything is because then when the time truly comes when it's appropriate to be hyperbolic, then you've wasted it, right?

You've wasted sort of the impact. And I think that the idea, though, of saving hyperbole and saving sort of grand

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