Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Middle Ground. I'm Caroline. And I'm Joe.

And Joe, we're glad to have you back. I'm back, baby. I'm ready. Did you miss the mic? Yeah, I missed you.

I know. I missed you too. It's weird when we don't... Guys, Caroline has become so much part of, like, ingrained and, like, she's my family, and I see her constantly. So that any time we don't see each other for more than, like, three or four days, I'm completely thrown. I know. It's not weird. I feel the same way. And I don't know, because I'm not somebody, it's not like I'm, you and I don't really text. No. Or like keep up with each other in any

capacity. Not that we don't keep up. That's probably the wrong way to put that. But like we're not,

I'll text you and fill you in kind of people or, like, we do all of our interacting in person. Yeah. Unless, like, we absolutely have to do something via a text or whatever. Yeah, that is. And I'm a caller, and you're not a caller. Yeah, I'm not a caller. But you take it. What? You take it. You let me call you. Yeah, I answer you. Well, some people are like, no, like my sister is a, she, I'll call her and then she'll text me like, what do you need? Oh, really? What do you want to talk about? And I hate it. I hate having conversations via text. Yeah. I don't hate it.

I like calling, too.

I'm not like anti-calling, but...

No, it's just like you don't have any context for the, like, tone.

Yeah.

I totally get it.

We're recording in my closet today, even though we have the office and everything,

because we have really, really bad

rainstorms here in northwest Arkansas this week.

And we were afraid it's been windy, and they have this sign.

And we've talked about it on the podcast before.

Maybe this is a sticker we need to add to the lineup.

We have this sign that hangs below our office window, and it's not tied down on the bottom.

So when it's really windy and rainy, it whips up and smacks our window.

And anyway, we just didn't want to bother with that.

So my dogs are in the background, if you can hear them.

Sorry.

Yeah, it feels weird to be in the closet.

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