Hello, Asha.

Hi, how you doing?

We lied.

We lied to our listeners.

We said that our last episode was the last, I guess we did say it was the last official episode of the year.

But here we are.

We didn't lie. I mean, at the time we thought it was last official episode of the year. But here we are. We didn't lie.

I mean, at the time we thought it was the last episode of the year.

Or, yeah, before the holiday break.

But yeah, we decided, dear listeners, to do something a little silly because really, I feel like this is the year of zero rules.

In fact, as we speak, Asha, I have not even told you this yet, and I'm going off the rails

already, but I have asked my children to cut my hair this weekend. So really, this is the year of no rules. Okay. Well, first of all, if the baked goods

that your children produce are any indication your hair is going to come out like a masterpiece.

And they're just going to be like, what? We just, you know, we never even tried it before. And here it is.

So that's, that's what I predict. Either that or, you know, we never even tried it before. And here it is. So that's,

that's what I predict. Either that or, you know, you're going to have a mullet and we're all going to laugh about it. Oh my gosh. Laurel actually said, what about a mullet? I'm not kidding. And, you know, too bad, we don't have the floby. But I really, and actually when I asked by about it. She was like, uh, I, I, I guess so, Mom, I'm a little nervous about that, but I'll do my best. She was like so earnest. It was so cute. It's really cute. I had my daughter cut my hair. So there you go. I mean, well, yeah, she's an artist. Well, anyway, so I just thought we could share about why we thought it would be funny to do this.

I think, you know, there's so much that goes on behind the scenes of a show, as I'm sure

people can imagine.

There's always a lot of behind the scenes of life.

And you and I, I don't know, like it's, it's, I think, I would say, Asha, one of the most common things I hear from people who talk to me about our podcast are like, your voices are so calm, you're so soothing.

But you and I are also both very silly.

Oh, man, it's so true.

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