Welcome to Seltzer Squad, the podcast about staying sober in the city with your host, Kate Sander and Jess Valentine.

Hey, Squad. Hi, Laura.

Hello. Welcome back. Thank you.

Squad, we have New York Times bestselling author. Laura McCalline.

No, I'm not. I'm not. I don't want to say that. Oh, my God. No, I'm a where are we jing

it? Best selling author. Okay, okay. We can talk about what that means and how funny and squishy it is,

but I don't want to. Oh my gosh. Should I start over? If you want. It's not a big deal.

I feel terrible now. Okay. I feel terrible. No. Okay. Let's leave it in. Okay. Best selling author, I mean, I already have a lot of questions about that.

But Squad, she's already coming back to us with her second book.

I don't know if you remember.

We recorded with her in January of 2020-ish.

When her first book came out, we are the luckiest.

And that was like before the end of times happened and so laura i need to catch up

you've done a lot a lot's happened january 2020 i don't even think that the luckiest was that like the luckiest

club community was a thing it wasn't it didn't become a thing until may right

2020 i mean that's like a non-stop resource that we recommend to everybody when they're

looking for community and friendship um one of my close friends she's been like a solid tLC member

forever she like goes to multiple meetings a day and And she has like, she can't say enough

good things about it. So thank you originally for just like putting that resource out there for

our crew. Yeah. No, that makes a lot of work. It is. Yeah. It wasn't anything I expected to do.

It came around because of the pandemic and just sort of happened in this organic, weird way.

And now it's a whole thing.

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