Hello and welcome to Close Reeds here on the Circe Institute Podcasting Network.

I'm David Kern, and, well, normally I'd be joined by Angelina Stanford and Tim McIntosh.

And recently, Angelina's even been in the studio, just sitting a few feet away from me on the other

microphone. And we did that, but you know, best laid plans and such, things didn't work out properly.

Tim is back from Aruba, but his computer was not working properly. And while we were able to get

most of the show in, our little intro at the beginning

actually was the part that didn't work out. So that's kind of best case scenario, all things

considered. But it does mean that I'm here giving you an intro to this episode all by my

lonesome. We are here, as usual, to talk about Gilead. We've been doing that for a few weeks

now and we've been really enjoying the conversation online. I hope that you all have been enjoying our conversation

here on the show and participating online. Thanks to all of you who do that. It's just been

awesome to see this community continue to grow and we are really grateful to be a part of that.

We don't feel like we are the conversation. We feel like we're a part of the

conversation. Um, and hopefully you feel that way as well. Hopefully you feel like you're a part

of the conversation and, and that you're not just, um, sitting here listening to us blabber on. Um,

I can assure you that in this episode, we do plenty of blabbering on. Fortunately, for any of you who don't like the banter, the witty banter, of course, at the beginning, then you're going to like this show because that's the part, as I said, that did not get included.

So there were plenty of good jokes, plenty of teasing, and lots of Tim's stories about being back in Seattle now and all that.

Unfortunately, you don't get to hear that.

We actually have the part that Angelina and I are a part of,

but there's just these blank spaces every time Tim spoke.

So that was hard to use.

Maybe we'll post that somewhere as a secret thing,

...