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Welcome to the Nerdist Podcast.

I'm starting out a little quieter. I've almost lost my voice for today.

It was a long day of talking. It was like a 13-hour day and two podcasts today that were both super, super, super fun.

And, oh, I still want to tell you about it, but I'm not gonna.

Because I think it's more fun to surprise you guys at the beginning of a week and be like,

here's this one. So it's very rare that I give away the podcast in advance,

because I don't know. It's just, it's kind of fun. It's like a little, it's like a little present to unwrap each week.

Oh, did I really just refer to my podcast as a present? I'm an asshole. I apologize.

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