Hello, beautiful beans and welcome to this very, very special episode.

This is my 400th episode. Four hundred episodes. That just

blows my mind that we've done that many. And I say we because it's like just been a collective

of like, you know, the people that have, you know, Shanaya, Maddie, everyone. And then you guys

who have like inputted in the episodes.

Anyway, 400.

It's fucking crazy.

And we thought we'd just dedicate this episode to a few of your voice messages that

you guys sent in.

And I've got one email as well that I'm going to read out as well that people have sent in.

But basically, I just want to say that

little rundown of the last four years, this has been so much more than I ever expected it would

be. Like having this podcast, having it be my like main gig, my career, what I do has just been the best

curveball I could have ever expected for my life. Like I just,

as most of you guys know, I started this podcast while I was halfway through my master's because

I wanted to help myself consolidate information. I just wanted to share what I was learning. I

thought I'd go into lecturing and I thought,

oh, a podcast is a really good thing. It's a passion project on the side. It's like an outlet for me to talk about all these concepts that I'm learning about and studying. I would have never thought,

I knew that you could make a career out of podcasting, but I thought that was just like the Joe Rogans

and that's it. I would have never thought that

it could turn into something that it's turned into, that we would build the community,

the way we have and not only across Australia, but across the world, like huge audiences

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