Hey, y'all, just want to give you a quick update on our Midwest tour because it's closing in fast. We are currently sold out in Des Moines, Detroit, and Cleveland, but tickets are still available in Indianapolis, St. Louis, St. Paul, Milwaukee, and Chicago. If you all haven't joined us for an in-person version of the show, it is so much fun and truly a night filled with magic. Tickets are available at supercarlin brothers.com

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We can't wait to see you in September.

Thank you. What's what happened, everybody?

Hello and welcome. And I am your host.

Here of me today is a very special guest, my own wife, Alice.

Hi.

Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks. I'm a little nervous. I swear, I feel like we were coming in here and I was like trying to get the set all like prepared for you. And I feel like I'm like giving you a tour of the office as if you've never been here before. I felt like like a guest. Yeah. Like I've been here 10 times, but I'm just like, oh, thank you so much. Yes, I'll take some coffee. Yes, please. I'm like, this is my husband. Right, right, right, right. Yes. But so I think on some way, in some ways, I felt even more nervous about you being in here to do this. Like I feel like you're seeing like a like the like the work ben work ben. Yeah, not home ben. Not home ben. The podcast Ben. Work Ben is very peppy. Oh no. Now everybody's going to be like, wow. Okay. So I see what's happening. I see what Ben's really bringing it whenever we're on the show and and we're seeing like completely different side of him than the real Ben.

Well.

Over under on whether or not you think tears will happen in today's episode while we're

recording.

Why would, why would there be tears?

Why would this be a thing?

She, she asked me before we came in whether or not it would be okay to see the topics that,

that I kind of had like roughly slated

the pop topics for today and I was like I don't I don't think it's like you know it's better to

not know because then you're going to like you're going to mentally rehearse you're going to

try to like are you going to make me cry well I doubt it oh my goodness what did I sign up for

it's going to be fun.

Okay.

I am excited to have this kind of conversation with you.

And to give us some backstory, the reason that Alice has generously offered some of her time to us this morning is because Jay is off at Pokemon Worlds, which is extremely excited.

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