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Welcome back to The Toast and happy Tuesday.

It is Tuesday and I'm sitting down with a girl that I would choose in this lifetime

and every lifetime after.

It's my girl, Taylor Strucker, who is my go-to maternity leave co-host, but she has left me for the West Coast. So we are working extra hard today to get this video up. Taylor's in L.A. I'm in New York. Hey, Taylor. How you darn? Hey, girl. Hey, oh my God, Claudette, I missed you so much. First of all, it is these synupon sins that we did not get to see each other when you were in L.A. So I did want to use my platform to highlight something that happened between Taylor Shucker and I, that I already, like, have loved you so much. And you will, like, be my best friend till I die. Okay. But what happened in L.A.? Like only cemented that further, okay? Thank you for saying that. Listen, I is who I is. And I truly, like, when I tell you, I don't care, I don't care. Not because I don't love you, I don't want to see you, but just because, like, I get you to my core. We are the same. I are you and you and I. So we, me and Taylor had plans to hang out in L.A. and I just like really miscalculated the day. I didn't realize L.A. traffic like where we were going. It was an hour in the car. Ruby's screaming. I'm sweating, pumping in the back. Like, and I said to Ben, and I was getting the worst headache. Oh, and I was leaving the next day, so I'd to pack. And I said to Ben,

I'm like, I just really Ben and I was getting the worst headache oh and I was leaving the next day tried to pack right and I said to Ben I'm like I just really feel like before we get in any deeper we had been driving for like 10 minutes I'm like I feel like we should just call it I'm telling you the tailors won't care the tailors won't care and the way I called you and you were like oh thank God I didn't want to go either and like you were also stuck in insane traffic. Insane traffic.

It's going to be like an hour, 45 minutes. Like this place is bananas. Bananas. The way, it's so important, like, and I mean this, this is going to sound like a joke, but it's not. It is so important to have friends in your life that you can cancel on. It's, if you can't cancel on your friends, Who can you cancel on?

A thousand percent.

So we didn't get to hang out in L.A.

You've kind of picked up and moved to the West Coast, like in a really annoying way when I've needed you most. I know. Your wife is pregnant. You haven't been on the toast with me in like a year. We have so much to catch up on. Hey, girl, Harry, Taylor Stricker, how are you? I am so good. Listen, I miss New York at my core. Like, she's a New Yorker. But I feel like, how about this? I'll say, I'm not a West Coaster, but I am enjoying my time the most I ever have when I'm visiting L.A., said like a true New Yorker.

I don't want to make you jealous, but you are missing, like, the best time in New York.

Central Park is like yellow and orange and green.

It's insanely beautiful.

Like the weather is so crisp.

Everybody's just wearing, like, their wool coats.

Not to make you jealous.

I'm glad you're having a good time.

I have a sneaky feeling I know what you're up to in L.A.

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