Mm-hmm.

Um, majored in the Haas Business School, went on to play, uh, a little bit of professional ball, mostly in the CFL.

Um, transitioning to, uh, getting my MBA at Northeastern, uh, and then working at Texas Instruments.

That brought me here to Dallas.

I always had a fetish for obviously finance and obviously sports, and so I became a licensed broker to be able to teach and talk about financial literacy among my peer group.

Uh, and so from there we started a business management group, My Brother's Keeper, uh, and then that transitioned into my nonprofit work around Ethos, uh, Education Group.

Ethos standing for character in Greek.

So please tell us more, right, Michael, on how Ethos, what you all do to help your client base.

Mm-hmm.

Um, majored in the Haas Business School, went on to play, uh, a little bit of professional ball, mostly in the CFL.

Um, transitioned into, uh, getting my MBA at Northeastern, uh, and then working at Texas Instruments.

That brought me here to Dallas.

Uh, always had a fetish for obviously finance and obviously sports, and so became a licensed broker to be able to teach and talk about financial literacy among my peer group.

Uh, and so from there we started a business management group, My Brother's Keeper, uh, and then that transitioned into my nonprofit work around Ethos, uh, Education Group.

Ethos standing for character in Greek.

So please tell us more, right, Michael, on how Ethos, what you all do to help your client base.

So I guess, Michael and Philip, I'll start with you guys since you're the co-founders of this initiative and ask just kind of how did this come together?

Well, Phil, you mind if I start? It really started around what you mentioned.

And then I'm curious, I might know who it is.

You said, what was the name of that shop? What was the name of the shop that you said you went to? It's Fight or Flight Comics in Raleigh.

Fight or Flight.

I think I know exactly who you're talking about because I think that was the year I was there the first time and had the experience of being the only in that room.

And that's really where this whole thing started is that So I've been owner of Blurred Underground in Chicago for, at that point, it had been about three years.

I'm not sure how you missed the huge campaign and an event that that was, uh, but once you grab that grab your new titans you'll be all caught up on where static is currently now um with all of that said i guess i should ask what this moment like and static coming back to the dc universe proper means to each of you guys um yeah that's whoever wants to take it

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Well, Mark wasn't either, but I was, front and center last night.

I've never been so excited about a potential epic failure because [laughs] five minutes before the core call last night, I'm set up, I've got my Ecamm set up, videos, everything's ready to go.

My computer just dies.

Now, I had logged in, as we always do, early for the core call, and some of our members had logged in, but I didn't know.

So I'm like, "I gotta boot this whole system and just pray that everybody shows up." So I go over to my laptop.

So it's not gonna be the professional-looking call that we usually have with all the fancy-

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What happened and what does it mean?

Well, what happened was the California attorney general brought an action lawsuit against Aspen Dental with multiple allegations.

And a lot of the allegations centered around the corporate practice of dentistry.

All right.

Not by a dentist, not by a licensed dentist, but by an unlicensed entity.

And they went into quite a bit of detail on that issue.

From the filing of the lawsuit to the settlement was only like, it was only a few weeks.

Why do you think that the unauthorized practice of dentistry is a higher violation? Explain that to us from your perspective as a former practicing dentist.

Um, and while I use the term acclimatization, you corrected me, and, and more it's like how do we get our dogs to perform well physically in these changes in environment? So maybe tell me why you corrected me on acclimatization, um, the term, and, and what we're really looking at to accomplish.

Um, well, I guess to, to put to bed the idea of, uh, you know, the, the acclimatizations, uh, term, um, the general public will use that term to sort of describe a very, very broad topic of, of, of humans or horses or dogs or whatever, uh, becoming better at, uh, at, at dealing with an environment that they're not necessarily used to, so in a very, very broad general term.

In the scientific community, the, the term acclimatization takes on a much, much more precise meaning.

Um, it is, [coughs] you know, for example, uh, the dog's body is, is normally designed to operate correctly at an average temperature about 100 to, at 100.5 to 101 degrees Fahrenheit.And so all the cells are sitting there at that temperature, and that's the temperature that they like, and if you get the cells hotter, they don't like that, and they, they, and they don't work quite as well.

Um, the, in the scientific community, the term acclimatization refers to the phenomenon in which the cell itself can work effectively at tempera- at, at higher than normal temperatures.

So the cell itself is 103 or 103 and a half or so, and despite that higher temperature, it's still working fine.

What's happening in the vast majority of cases in which the general public is perceiving acclimatization, it's a, a dog working in a hotter environment, but maintaining a normal temperature.

Any validity to any of those kind of things?