I am heading into the battle of thermopyla for socially awkward and socially anxious people.

This is content warning. If you have social anxiety, ADHD, if you have been diagnosed as being on the spectrum by TikTok, and you really feel like that might be true for you, if you have a history of trying to be chill with people and having it get very awkward, very quickly,

you know, flinging your arm out and it kind of hits someone's neck and then you're like,

maybe I should go in for a hug, that sort of thing.

Then this might, this episode might be hard for you to hear.

I just found out that my husband signed us up to host a 12-person sit-down dinner party.

And you might think, well, it doesn't get worse than that,

but it does because it's for alumni

of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

What you have to understand about people who have graduated from that program is that

they are all what economists call filthy rich. Now see, I have to be careful because my my husband

has been going in and out of like right now he's not outside the door to the studio but he'll like he'll

you know because people might hear this know they don't good don't say that everyone who went to

Stanford business school is rich and so Caitlin let's let's get a sound effect because he's too busy

to listen to this podcast so if we can just get through the recording like I don't think I'll know

my kids listen sometimes don't tell dad that I was saying this.

Caitlin, what is a good sound effect that if we hear Joe creeping outside the door that you can hit?

Okay, yeah.

Yes, okay.

It might need to be a little louder so that I can hear it because I can barely hear that.

Okay.

Yeah, because I don't wear headphones on this because I can barely hear that. Okay. Yeah.

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