Hey, just want to start off the episode by saying Happy Veterans Day.

Yeah.

Thank you guys so much.

Seriously.

I'm the daughter and the granddaughter of her Marine, so, you know, thank you so much for all of your service out there.

And today we got an awkward Tuesday for you.

Yes.

Do you want to start with a comment, Alexis?

You got something?

Yes, our Matlock said, please launch more merch. I wasn't listening to

you guys the last time you did it. And since then, I've listened to hundreds of episodes across

YouTube and TikTok. You guys are my daily podcast while I'm working and studying for grad school.

You guys deal with some crazy people every day and it makes me feel sane. And now I can say this,

Happy Holiday. Hey, there it is. I have been plotting another merch for a cause. How do you? I want to buy a new hat. Yeah, well, I don't know if we're going to have hats, but you know. Then I won't be involved. Yeah, well, you have a hat on right now. I know. I wear it every day. Let's get our awkward Tuesday phone call going and just keep your ears open because something's coming. Ooh. Earmuffs. Yeah.

We're going to sell earmuffs. It's freaking Jeffrey. If you thought being stuck in the friend zone was the worst feeling, we just heard about another hopeless zone of no romance that sounds even more frustrating.

Wow.

Oh, please don't tell me it's the dead zone. Please don't tell me it's the dead zone.

It's not, but one of our listeners is stuck in it right now.

He's been desperately searching for a way to finally spark a love connection with a person that he's known for years.

Oh.

They're not exactly friends.

Their relationship is a little stranger, more complicated than that.

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