Welcome to Hot Takes in Sausage. My name is Ryan Selling. I'm happy to be back with you

after a week off, two weeks off. How many weeks off did we take, Brando Hall?

I don't know, but I'm Hot Takes and I'm glad to see you all again. It's good to be here.

It's my birthday. It is your birthday. Wow. So Jesus took me away from our recording session

last week. And yeah, we fit this one in. You want to know why because we're about it.

Okay, we're taking this thing serious. I don't, no, we're about it for sure. I'm always

about it. You know me. I love to broadcast. But I feel like this is like a special privilege

that I have here because we just finished, even though it comes out later, we just finished

recording watch diary. And now we get to record this. It's all happening on your birthday.

I just appreciate you, Brando. It means a lot to me. It's good to be appreciated.

But look, I also want to make sure everybody understands. It's not like I just roped you

into this and I'm making you do this against your will because you texted me during our

time off about how gung ho you were about making sure that we got this in because you

hated that you missed last week. You loved this show, right? It's a fun show. Did you

hear that fart? I just farted. I really don't need no. I didn't and you didn't need

to recount. No, hold on. Hold on. Do you remember how much I used to hate when Jay burped

on the podcast? Do you remember that? Oh, yeah. And I let you do it. I'm not happy about

it. Oh, man. I pray I need to fart again because I will make it very evident. I really

um, but yeah, no, it's, uh, you know, I like this show because a, there's hardly ever

any prep, which is incredible. That's what I want. Right. It's just too white male. Southern

you're triggering me. Democrats. Are you a Democrat? Uh, I think I fell off liberalism

today actually. I'm not going to say why, but there was an Instagram post that covered

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