Oh my goodness, good morning, good afternoon, whatever it is for you I hope you're having a fantastic day.

My name is Zach Schamler. This is Strong Appendix

episode 656. And joining me is my co-host.

Mandy the hour, Nathan Hawthorne, Nathan, how are you?

Oh, man of the hour?

I'll take that.

I'm doing great.

How about yourself?

Yeah, I'm doing great.

I want to take a minute though, actually, for real,

to like intentionally acknowledge you.

Because I was talking about the show with Molly today.

So what are you going to talk about it?

I told her the rundown.

And as I started talking about the show, it just came out from my heart genuinely like I'm so

excited to have Nathan on this show like doing it with you and I just maybe want to say a to

you like as a friend but also so the audience can hear like you're doing a great

fucking job like you really are and it's so much fun to do this with you you take it

seriously like part of why it took me years and years and years to add another person was I just didn't trust I could find

another person who would take the opportunity seriously and treat it like a real like a

thing and frankly you treat it like a job and I appreciate that you do prep you do

resource when I send you stuff you watch the dumb videos I send you like it really is

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