Welcome back to the Loopcast. Today, joined by Erica and Josh.

Erica, you are back from the brink. Welcome back to the program.

I am. I am back. I feel like Dante emerging from the inferno where all the senses torture you and are the source of misery to the gates of purgatorio where now I start to remember the beauty of sight and vision and taste and smell.

So, yeah, thanks for the prayers, guys.

I, it was bad.

But thanks to the stomach bug, I have achieved my 20-24 goal.

What was that?

It was to lose 40 pounds.

And I, because I had a baby.

You're pregnant.

I had a baby.

True.

And that takes you down a couple.

Giving birth and a stomach bug.

That was the rest of it.

Although that does bring up to mind, my wife would always get, you know, each of the six pregnancies would get so sick.

Yeah.

And, of course, when she was pregnant with the second child, and she was just poor, my poor wife, barfing all the time.

And then the nine-month-old at the time little Andy came up to her and

Lauren would barf.

And then, of course, here's this nine-month-old seeing her mom, you know,

barf her brains out, poor, you know, so sick with the pregnancy.

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