646: On the Shelf With the Pickles

Marco, you can obviously do whatever you wanna do. But if I if you will permit me to punt to John, if I can do the punting to John for the pre show when you're ready, please. Yeah. Alright. Let's go live. Hi, everybody. We're live. Oh, is it me? Alright. I didn't know if you had a preamble. Sorry. Didn't know if there was preamble. I know they they say hike when they, like, you know, snap the ball. Is there is there an equivalent command for punting? Over? Hold? I don't know. Alright. Let me start over and get us going. A long time ago, when Marco and John and I first started talking about doing a podcast together, and I think we've told this story, but not in a long time. One of the things that Marco and John and I all said to each other was, look, we're not gonna stop being friends on account of any of this. And at the time, that was hilarious because it was us talking about cars, and that didn't amount to all that much in the grand scheme of things until you get to ATP. I stand by that. I think you two stand by it. I think we've done a great job of it, except now everything is the show. And so in our internal show notes, we have a section for the preshow. And sometimes there'll be stuff there. A lot of times, Marco will just make something up or some sometimes the two of us will. But for the last forty eight hours, I've had to stare at preshow colon. John made an important purchase. And I don't know what it is, and I'm dying. And this is why maybe this whole maybe we should shut it all down because I don't wanna have to wait to know what your important purchase was, John. But finally, the time has come. Fill me in, please. I spent so long trying to decide whether I should put anything there because a lot of time I just don't. I just surprise you with it. But I did wanna, like, reserve the slot, but I didn't wanna make it seem that big of a deal. Right? I didn't wanna overhyped it. Important purchase. That sounds a big deal. Not like if I had, like, if I've written, like, on your school paper, see me. Right. Like, see me after class or, like, we need to talk or something terrible like that. So I wanted to tamp it down to be like, this is not it's just a pre show. It's not a big thing. Issue with your performance. I did wanna reserve the spot in the pre show. So, no, it's nothing that exciting. John, everything we purchase can be exciting if we if we talk about it in the right way or if we care enough about it. Yeah. I I think this one is this one is significant …