Welcome to Seltzer Squad, the podcast about staying sober in the city with your host, Kate Sander and Jess Valentine. Hi, Jess.

Hi, Kate.

Sorry, I was just swallowing some seltzer.

What kind is it?

So on brand.

What kind of seltzer is it?

This one is polar strawberry margarita.

Ooh, I like that.

Yeah, it's in a little tall boy can it's a summer a limited edition

i hate the fake booze shelters though like you know what i mean yeah like just call it strawberry

lime yes yeah i know or like some say rosé or something i don't like that either but yeah

i digress but it looks good i get annoyed with everything. It looks refreshing.

It is my last one. It's good though. Well, let's catch up. We tried to catch up last week. It got

botched. And then we were like strained to not talk to each other too much about catching up too

much. So we would still have. Yeah, we like hold things back in our real life for the

podcast. Okay. So you tell me, catch us up. What are you up to? I feel like this might be my first

catch up where I'm in a good place mentally. Oh, that makes me so happy to hear. Squad,

it's not all bad. I promise. And I believe you have quit vaping and smoking.

Yeah, I have not vaped in 2020 at all.

I quit that, like, hard.

And then I've been, like, having a secret affair with cigarettes on and off.

And where we left off, when I was still, we were still upstate. I had bought, T.J. had bought me like loose

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