Folks, this is an introduction to the introduction of the podcast

because Katie and I just got done recording this week's episode

and then I realized that our microphones were not actually picking up

our audio, just the computer microphone was picking it up.

And so the audio quality is not what you're probably used to,

but we decided to keep the episode anyway

because we really enjoyed recording it.

We really liked the conversation

and we were like, is there any way to do that over again

and have it be as fun and spontaneous and heartfelt

and we looked at each other and we looked at each other

and we were like, no, it's impossible for it to be as genuine

if we, without it being spontaneous, like it just was.

And so this is the introduction to this week's episode.

Please apologize to us for the audio you're about to hear.

No, I'm saying that I'm apologizing to you.

Please forgive us for the audio quality that you're about to hear.

But hopefully you guys can still get some helpful tidbits

from this episode.

That's it.

That's all I'm saying.

Okay, here we go.

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