Hello, I'm Sarah Marshall and as some of you may have noticed, you're wrong about

is five years old.

We put our first episode out on May 2, 2018.

It was called very ambitiously, the satanic panic, and was 43 minutes long.

And there's something very funny about both those things and very funny and amazing

about the whole ride that this has turned out to be.

I thought I would read you the beginning of this journey because we have that anniversary

and we also have February 4, 2018, which is when I got an email from my co-founder and

very long time, very beloved co-host Michael Hobbs, who wrote with the subject line,

Quick Phone Chat, question mark, and then wrote, hey Sarah, can I give you a quick call sometime

in the next few days?

I want to pick you something to work on together.

Exclamation point.

There's nothing like an idea that someone puts an exclamation point after.

And that's what maybe explains the whole story for me.

The show has brought many exclamation points into my life and I hope yours.

And to celebrate this amazing anniversary, I had an idea where I wanted to ask you the

listener what this show has meant to you.

If it has never meant anything in particular much, then that's great too.

But if it has reached into your life at a certain moment, if it's affected the way you

look at things, if you have memories connected to it, I personally remember very specifically

where I was when I listened to a lot of different podcast episodes and it's kind of a way that

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