 Hey, everybody, I'm CeCe. And the most interesting thing that I learned this year was that if you give me a good enough story that has enough interesting parts, I can be motivated to do things that I used to absolutely loathe. For example, running. So ever since I was a little girl, I just hated running for two reasons. First, sweating is gross. And second, I get really bored, right? So when I tried running as a little kid, I would spend the entire run thinking about how miserable I was that I had decided to run. Doesn't work out very well. Now, as I got older, I tried again and again, because I've heard about the runner's high. It's so great, and the exercise is great. Then eventually, I came with the conclusion that I need to assure myself this will never work. But about a month ago, I started playing a game. It's very aptly named Zombies Run, which is kind of cool, right? The game itself is just an iPhone game, and I don't think that this slide is going to advance any more, but essentially what happens is, now I run about three to four times a week and two miles a day, right? So that's kind of crazy, and I don't know that I quite grasp that this is happening, but the way it works is through sort of a motivational story. All they really do is they take together audio files, and they mix it in with your own music, and suddenly when you push play, you become the main character in a zombie apocalypse story, okay? Now, to give you guys sort of the full experience, I've decided that I'm gonna re-enact the beginning of episode two for you. Now, I first have to catch you up with what happened in episode one. So imagine you're on a helicopter, and you're flying to this town to give them supplies, when all of a sudden, somebody shoots a rocket launcher at you, and your helicopter goes down, right? So you parachute out, you get on the ground, you know there are zombies around here, and you book it. Now, someone is talking to you on your headset. You don't know who, he claims he's from the town, but he doesn't know if you're alive or dead, so he's just talking, and that's when the episode starts. So this is really where I invite you to sort of close your eyes if you wish, and listen, pretend like you're running, and my voice is in your headphones. Wow, there's someone alive down there. Hey, hey, can you hear me? No answer, still look at him go, heading for that tower, just like I said. Okay, running person, if you can hear me, you're doing really great. The main pack is behind you, and you're gonna come out of this forest really soon, but there's a, well, I can't think of a better phrase than small army of zombies coming to get you. I don't do very well under massive pressure, but that's okay, you're gonna be okay. If you just head towards that large building to your left, everything will be okay. Hey, look at that, they're changing directions. Oh my God, you can hear me, okay, okay, great, it's cool, we're gonna get you safe, we're gonna bring you in, and no, we are not gonna ask them that question because they might be injured. All of the more reason to ask them that question. Listen, my name is Dr. Abel, and I'm the medic here, the only medic at Abel Township. Your path is going to take you almost to the old hospital, and we know there are medic kits there from the first wave of infection. If you could pick up just one or two, that would help us, but it's too dangerous, you know what happened to runner five. All of the Zoms are headed towards the site of the crash, but what about whoever fired that rocket launcher? Listen, if someone is gonna kill that runner, taking an unusual route will make it harder, not easier. I don't wanna be hard headed, but everyone in this township earns their keep. You should be able to see the hospital by now. If you get there and you can't find anything, we might not be able to let you in when you get here. So that's the beginning of episode two. It's pretty great. The game sort of takes you through some twists and turns that are like, not plot devices, but they're very interesting because the danger is never the same. It's not always zombies running after you. What's happening sometimes is let's say, hey, I have a running partner now. She doesn't believe me. She doesn't believe that I got off that helicopter and that I sort of killed somebody, took their clothes, and then came to this town. That's dangerous. Or you're running through the woods, you hear a child crying, you know the zombies are gonna get them, you wanna get to that kid first. So what's really cool and what really sticks with me about this game is how much my survival instinct really just kicks in, even though all of my other sensory perceptions are telling me otherwise. So let me just paint this picture for you. Sometimes I like to run at night in a gym on a treadmill. And I get there, I push play, I'm on a treadmill. I know for a fact there are no zombies in this gym. Now, I see the TV screen in front of me. It is always a cooking show that I always cannot figure out how to turn off. It's night, so the window sort of reflect me back to me so I see myself running on a treadmill, right? I have my gym shorts, my headphones, my iPhone in my hand because that's how I do it. And all of a sudden you get to that point in the story in which there's some groaning and some moaning and it gets louder and the danger is totally there. And even though my very logical mind is telling me there is no way there's any zombies in this gym, I feel that urge to run faster because I have to and I do, and I do it over and over again. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.