Hello, welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. We are grateful for you. We are so glad that you

exist and that you're listening. How are you two doing? I'm wonderful. Just making sure your

phone's off. Yeah, it's my phone off. Yeah. That's great. Dean asked me six times, but that doesn't

every time during the tech check, the pod squad should know that we go through this list of

questions where they're made. We're Dina is making sure that we are prepared for the recording.

Like, are these things plugged in? Have you done this? Have you done this? And what I do

is I just look at Dina and when she asks me the questions, I nod. Yes. And I just try to look

like I'm really paying attention. But I never think about any of the answers to the actual question

she's asking. You're such a people. Please are at the moment that you're like, sure is, sure is

plugged in. But really, what would please her the most is if you actually plugged it in. I know I

just love Dina so much and I just want us to have a moment, but she would prefer I did my job.

I'm sorry. So then she looks at Abby and says, Abby, is is it plugged in? Yes. And Abby,

it takes a village. So we're going to do some questions from the pod squad today. These are some

of my favorite episodes because I feel like we get to kind of get a little bit looser than usual

and just talk directly to the pod squad. Lucy Goosey. Lucy Goosey as Lucy Goosey as we get as I get.

And so let's go. Let's listen to the pod squad's questions and see what happens.

And also thank you, pod squad, for continuing to just write and call us because this whole thing

that we're doing here is just a conversation with you. And it's such a joy to be able to hear what

you want to talk about and to be in it directly with you. So thank you for sharing your precious time

by doing that. I mean, so much to us. Okay. I'm going to cue you up with questions. I'm going to

cue you up with cues. Great. Oh, oh, shocker. Our first question is on gender. You have you been

listening for the past year and a half might be tempted to think that we are at the bottom

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