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Alana Mazzoni, welcome to seeing other people.

Hi.

Thank you.

I'm so excited.

I told Alana when I walked in that I feel like she's someone I should have met.

Like, I really feel like I knew you in like a weird way.

Like almost like someone from school that you knew

of, but like you were never friends with, but like you feel like you should have been.

That's how I feel about you.

No, I completely agree.

Like especially at over the last year as you've like gone through your journey.

I've like wanted to reach out to you so badly.

And I know that I should have. No, no.

In my mind, you're one of my, like, parisocial friends. Yeah, yeah. And when I had the idea to ask you to come on the podcast, I was like, I really hope she says yes. Because, first of all, like, I want to hear more of your story. I want to help share your story. But I also just want to hang out with you. I felt it was like, oh yeah, I'm totally come on your pod.

Like, of course.

We need a play date. It's so funny because so background, like, so I used to, obviously, like that pod, I used to do a podcast at Barstool Sports when I was young, young, young, 22, like a few months out of school. And so weird, but I

don't remember who. And I was so young and I don't, it's kind of blurry. But someone from Hinge took

us to lunch and she basically wanted us to work for Hinge. It was definitely Molly. Molly, Molly.

That was her name. And we were just kind of like, we just got to Barstool. It just, it was so interesting, but we just like couldn't make the jump. So I always thought of you as like my almost co-worker friend. Do you know what I mean? Because we almost were. Here's the thing, though, if you had taken the job, I probably wouldn't have had my job. Oh, okay, that's actually more. And your name's a lot of. Oh, my God. That's so crazy. Because then I thought about it and I'm like, oh, my God. If we had said yes, the butterfly effect that would have happened, like, freaked me out. And I took a gummy last night. So I think it actually made me spiral more. I was like, I would have never, because I met my fiancee at work, we would have never, I never would have broken up with my ex-boyfriend, maybe. I would have never dated my fiance. Like, where would I, it freaked me out. So like meeting you today, like kind of triggered that like, oh my God, when I was 22, like who would have known if if I took the job at Hinge? Yeah. And if you did and I didn't get that job, I don't know where I would be right now. So holy shit. Would not be in his apartment, would not be with Jake, would not have this podcast. You would have never podcasted maybe. Yeah. So weird. So, wow.

Oh, my God. So, like, we have an invisible string. Yeah. It's like crazy. Yeah. No, I was telling Alana a second ago, like, my boss at the time always would say to me, like, we need you to find your Alana, like for the content, for the podcast, like, my like, partner in crime. Yeah. Yeah. So here we are.

I'm so excited. I love it.

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