 jim talent over the reagan foundation whether reagan institute's national leadership council jim welcome sir how are you doing i'm doing well mark it's not a slow news day isn't that no it is not i i i think the last little slow news day was sometime in the early nineties i'm i'm not sure so let me just ask you open ended leah how how did uh... how well actually since we haven't spoken in a while i've heard john hughes show in a bit how have the last couple of weeks