Welcome to What a Time to Be Alive, the only podcast counting down everything this week that made you say, what a time to be alive.

And now, Patrick Monaghan, Kath Barbadoro, and Eli Udn.

Folks, welcome, On Time to Be Alive, the only podcast that casts out on things that things she thinks anything else to tell the podcast. I'm Patrick Monaghan. I'm Eli Uden. There is no cath this week. She was, her essence was shrunk down into a tiny glass sphere, a little marble-like creation, and that's now imprisoned. We have to free her, but we didn't have time.

This week, we're going to get on it. We just found out this morning. Yeah, she just texted us

from the sphere. She's in there like a little Pokemon. She's in the ball. Katz is stuck in the

ball. I'm in this sphere. I can't make it to the show. I'm in this sphere.

Yep.

It's part of it's, there's some sort of evil wizard or litch holding.

It's a necklace around his neck.

We have to go with its whole thing.

It's like the Care Bears movie.

Is that, is that right?

I don't remember.

I think there's something like people getting trapped in, in like, diamonds or something

in the Care bearers movie people always get yeah it's a common movie people getting trapped in some

sort of little gem it's kind of a common thing feel free to fact check me yeah just one of those

natural human fears of being trapped in a gym so i hate to be in a he's in trapped in some kind of gem

yeah yeah so you want but we have a special guest a special guest in in lieu kind of gem. Yeah. It's not what you want. But we have a special guest, a special guest in lieu of Kath,

uh, writer, tank top, uh, evangelist himself.

Mike Scallens, everybody is with us here on the pod.

Thanks for having me.

I was ready to rip two and jam.

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