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Learn more at Vonage.com. Hello and welcome to the sup live I'm Elise Morales I'm Sammy Fishbine. No you're not. Guys today we're very very excited first of all for

this first ever pre-recorded episode of this up live and in the studio we have such a friend fun

If you guys watch our WTF series on Instagram you will recognize him he's the lead video producer for this up it's Brian Russell Smith.

Oh my god thank you so much for such a great intro yes yes guys Brian's

actually been here the whole time. I'm usually standing behind the

shooting behind the phone like the camera just yelling things if we need

information so I'm always there yes not talking. We're feeling his energy.

He's been giving his energy to the podcast for so long,

so it's really great to have him co-hosting.

If you're wondering where Sammy is,

she is in an underground bunker. No, she's in Coachella, which is a similar situation.

Yeah, it's basically just as like destitute and nuclear.

Yeah, yes, exactly. It's basically, yeah, it's an apocalyptic scenario.

It's not just here, it's actually full of people.

Exactly.

Too many people are too many people.

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