First of all, we were in there together for maybe a few seconds. Maybe a minute. And, sure, I was the one supposed to walk her down. You're correct. Okay, I was walking her down. And of course, you know, she’s very inquisitive. She's the tour guide. But she’s also supposed to be “Celeste from Denton.” We actually want Celeste to ask her own questions. Hey, you sure you don’t—you don't want to just …?

Okay. Celeste. So I’m walking her down. Elevator’s quiet. Just us. About to meet the investors when, at some point, she turns to me and apparently has an um … burning question. She wants to know—seriously, you can’t just get this directly from the cameras?

No sound? Okay. So, Celeste … She turns to me and wants to know what I was laughing at—I believe—a few seconds before we got on the elevator. Now, before I say anything else, if I could just—very quickly, if I could just explain the way our new tour guide model works.

Celeste is the culmination of a radical rethinking of the aligned/misaligned paradigm. Wha—what does that mean? I'm glad you asked. We set up a system where misalignment is best achieved through alignment and iterative self-improvement is always prioritized. Sorry, I said some of that wrong. Can—can I start over? No? That’s alright. Anyway, you fellas really should stop by the Ideation Center more often. It’s not like when we were in the old building and couldn’t break shit. What’s that …? Yeah, I was actually just getting to that. Thank you.

So before we got on the elevator, I had actually just remembered spilling hot coffee on one of the investors the last time they were here, and that made me laugh at myself. Which is what I told Celeste, so … asked and answered. She got off the elevator. I came back here. Heard she kept asking the investors for more money and it didn't seem like she would stop until they got to the body room. That's just Celeste asking her own questions. And she’ll … she’ll get better at it. 

And honestly, I know it's maybe too soon to be saying this, but I think I see a silver lining here, fellas. After everything, I think the remaining investors made the right call. Ultimately, I think they did. You don’t just throw the baby out with the bathwater. Speaking for just myself, but I think I can extend this to everyone at the Ideation Center. We’re humbled to have been granted another do-over with Celeste.

Course, I'll tell you in more detail what I actually said. Was actually just getting to that. So she asked why I was laughing about it. And of course, I told her. I said, sometimes you kinda have to laugh at yourself, you know? Sometimes you do things without thinking. Purely by accident. And if you can’t laugh about it later on, it’ll just keep bothering you. And that’s not healthy. I don’t think … That’s just self-care, right? I think we can all agree on that. Self-improvement. Which I also said to her, come to think of it. I said, you laugh, you learn from it, you improve yourself.

Now I can’t say for a fact if that was my precise wording. It has been a few hours and everyone’s still kinda shaken up, present company included. But, well … you heard what she was yelling the whole time, right? She was improving herself. She was learning from her mistakes. 

And sure, you could argue that she wasn’t actually learning shit, since she did keep making that same mistake. Just the one. Over and over. And to that, I would just point out that it was a different investor each time. And I think the remaining investors would agree. I think they would. Which I think is why they’ve all decided to purchase more shares. Even our chair pro tem. He’s going to need a new trachea, but otherwise, they’re saying he’ll pull through. Even he’s upping his stake in Celeste.

Oh and, I guess I should address that other noise you all kept hearing. Where it sounded like we’d hired professional yodelers to entertain the investors after the tour? That was actually Celeste laughing. At herself. Turns out the laughing reflex wasn’t actually ready for inclusion with this release. And there’s really no excuse for that. All I can say is we’ll … we’ll have it ready in time for the next launch.

So … yeah. I guess some of our previous investors won’t be joining us for the next funding round. All else considered, I say it’s no great loss. Maybe even something to laugh about.

Later on. Hmmm … Actually, no. Could you not include that in the—