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Here is episode 715.

Hey there, welcome back to the Holy Post podcast. I'm Phil Fisher. Once again, back with you is Sky Jitani. Hi, Sky. Hi, Phil. Hi. And Caitlin Chess, hi, Caitlin. Hi, Phil. Hi, you're sporting a really big pink water bottle. I'm ill. Yeah. Me and Sky both are carriers. You have a cold still too. Yeah, I'm on the mend. I'm probably 85% better, but I can get stuck at 85%. For a while. Yeah. For like weeks. And I don't like it. I don't like it. What would you say you're, what percent are you at, Caitlin? I was at like 25 percent for like multiple days and I thought, oh, my body is effectively fighting this off. Awesome. And then Easter morning I woke up and I was like, oh, no, this is really bad. I think yesterday was the peak. I think I'm probably like 5% better today. But we're not, we're not really fully on the up and up. I was using, I was using

my metrics differently than you. I said, well, you come up and then you come, well, yeah, I guess you did. Yeah, yeah, you go down. I was, you're at 100%. 25% means completely healthy. Okay, so I was at 75. You're at 75.

Okay.

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