This is Hemet.

And Jessica.

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And thank you to all those people.

There were dozens of people who came out for our 600th episode slash everything Jessica is going on party.

It was wonderful to get to meet so many of you, some of whom came two years ago when we did

this before for the 500th and so many new people who said wonderfully nice things and drove in

from like Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Minnesota, Wisconsin, Wisconsin was just like my parents.

But like somebody came from the UP.

Somebody flew in that.

We thought UP or maybe like kind of northern Minnesota.

But then somebody flew in from L.A.

And I met him at the L.A. meetup, which had to have been 2014. People are super nice about wanting to come out.

Super nice. Generous. People brought gifts. It was, it was... You almost make me want to go out more.

I know. We haven't... It won't happen, but... No, we had a nice time. It's a once every two years.

We get hem and out and, you know, into the world, you know,

let them breathe a little bit. But it was absolutely stunning. I think my favorite part was that

there were maybe five kids who had been there two years ago. Yeah. All grown up. I mean,

one of them ran up to me and just screamed and I remember you from last time.

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