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Friends Beyond the Binary, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it's time to get cozy and get comfortable as I try to put you to sleep.

It's time for sleep with me.

The podcast that puts you to sleep, we do with the bedtime story.

All as you need to do is get in bed, turn out the lights and press play.

I'm going to do the rest what I'm going to attempt to do.

Oops, I'm totally distracted.

And I'll tell you why I'm distracted.

This is, so I'm recording in a temporary location in an extra bedroom.

But right in front of me, for the first time ever, COA, my dog, who episode 1400, featured, just, while I was saying, get cozy, get comfortable, she was getting comfortable and cozy right in front of me.

Well, to my left, in front of me to my left, because I'm in a spare bedroom with two beds, two twin beds, one of which is on the floor,

or it's a twin mattress on the floor to fit more people like family.

And I say, go, why don't you come in while I record and get comfortable and cozy?

And I've invited her, this is my third recording here,

fourth, fourth time recording.

And the other three times she said,

nah, I prefer not, but now she's cozy and comfortable.

So this is a really unique experience for me because I know I'm supposed

to be starting to sleep podcast, but normally, uh, COA, my dog. So she's a 17 year old dog

and all the history of the podcast, all the locations, she's never been in front of me.

When I first started the show, I was in a closet where I couldn't even see out of,

and every once in a while she'd check on me, but then she'd leave.

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