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Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of the Tim and April show. Joining me today is the OG co-host of mine. Tim is back. Welcome back, Tim. Hi. Back in my natural habitat. What's up, April?

How was your break? Your sabbatical. It was really good. Hello, friends. By the way, thank you for tuning in live. I saw someone say, where's the comment I wanted to say, welcome back, Timothy Shalame. I was like, there

we go. Class. That's a throwback. I love it. I love it. So, yeah, no, I will say, in one way,

it feels like time flew by. In another way, I was like, wow, I have to get my body moving again

to get the live prepped,

you know, to get all my stuff together. So it feels so good to be back. It really does. I think

out of everything that I get the privilege of doing with the new evangelicals and with you,

I think I miss doing this with you the most. I think out of everything because we were in such

a routine, you know, of like we were always talking and sharing things and we were always prepping together. So I was like, you know, it felt great to be able to have time away. And I can talk about what what I did. But I was looking forward to getting back into the swing of things. So it's great. I love it. Well, I'm glad you're back. You were,

you were missed. Although it was kind of fun. We had a girl power August because it was just me and all

my guests were women. So, well, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, the, the episode. So I

leave on sabbatical, right? And who do you have to fill my place?

Monty freaking made her, like she's a savant, you know, like she's brilliant. She can talk

about anything so, you know, so credibly. And I'm like, man, also, I mean, I love Monty. We've all

gotten the chance to hang out. So I was bummed. And then you had Promise on who's amazing. And then you had our T&E executive director, Melinda Hale, who's also amazing. And then you had one of my favorite people ever, Janice on. I mean, gosh, you got all the cool people, of course, when I leave. Yeah. Well, I'm sure they'd come back at some point for you too, Timothy, Shalame. But you were missed. You were missed. So I'm glad that you were back. But I'm also glad that you had a break. I think it is important to, it's a good reminder. Everybody needs breaks sometimes and there's nothing wrong with taking a break.

It was nice to pump the brakes and to be able to kind of sit and reflect on just, you know, my life and

where me and my partner are at, Sarah. We also moved into a new house throughout break. In fact,

I'm in a whole new studio space. I try to make it look as similar to the previous one as possible, but I have

much more room. It looks the same. Good, good. I'm not in my guest bedroom anymore. I have a lot more

room, which is really nice. I had not shaved, which I need to do at some point. I'm a little scruffy.

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