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Well, well, well. Good morning, Lauren. Welcome to episode 167. Wow, we've done too many of these.

I don't know why I felt the need to say the number, but sometimes it's grounding.

You know, it's validating to know that we've done 167 episodes of pop-apologists.

And there, you are aging us first of all. How embarrassing.

Second of all, yeah, 167th episode. Actually, it's probably more like our 350th episode,

because we also, everyone, not sure if you heard about it, but we do a Patreon episode every Friday.

So we've been doing this for a while, quite a while, but you know, even the 167th time or whatever

300th time feels like the first time. So never gets old chatting with you since. Never.

We have big news to share. Yeah, super exciting. Okay, here's the deal, everyone. We're really

excited because today we are announcing that we are joining a network. We are joining 58th

Ember. 58th Ember is a new network, and we are really excited to be partnering with them.

Should we share like how the started, Chandler? Yeah, let's just give a little bit of a background.

We were with a previous network a year ago. And then we decided to, yeah, part ways.

But then 58th Ember approached us, and yeah, Lauren, you can take it from there.

Yeah, so basically we were with the network, and they were great, but we ultimately decided that we

wanted to be part of a platform called Red Circle. That's what we moved to because it was a little

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