This is Outside In, a show where Curiosity and the Natural World Collide.

I am your host, Nate Hedgie, here with producers Justine Paradise and Taylor Quimby.

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Hello.

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So I have gathered y'all here because we're the only members of this team that are married.

Although I think, Justine, you are the only one of us with an engagement ring, right?

Can we see it?

Absolutely. Here. Can you see it through this zoomy screen?

So beautiful.

Thank you.

We're going to have a picture of it in the show notes, if you're comfortable with that.

Oh, I'm happy to share. I'm very pro my ring.

Yeah. pro my ring.

Regardless of whether you were the ones proposing or being proposed to, how much time did both of you spend thinking about rings?

Oh, a lot.

Months.

Especially because it's the kind of thing you're thinking about in the shower and like lying in bed at night and you're like, you're weighing all these decisions.

And yeah, it's a significant thing.

Absolutely.

So this is something that one of our listeners, a guy named Ben Heaney, has been thinking about a lot lately. Hi, outside in.

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