Hello my little meat pies, it's me, Alison. Welcome to the second part of the official first

episode. Those words got all jumbled. I'm off to a not great start, but that's okay.

We can save this whole mess. Second part of the Kristalia episode, which I was going to say is the first one of 2013.

I'm still semi-adhering to my resolutions, which are, and I don't know if I told you guys last year what they were going to be.

I don't think so. It's to be better with names because I used to be good and somehow I'm bad now. I'll ask them what their name is and they tell me and it doesn't even go in.

So it's to be better with names and it's also to be better about returning emails and phone calls because over the break, both the

annual and I had the experience of someone not getting back to us and we felt sort of, you know, upset and insecure and like the person

disliked, just like a whole array of negative emotions, but with the knowledge that probably the person is just busy,

which of course they were. And meanwhile, while we were feeling this, we also were saying that we're hypocrites because

there's people that we haven't responded to that we totally like and we just haven't gotten around to it.

But it was just that awareness again that when you don't get back to someone in a timely fashion, it probably makes them feel like they're not important to you.

And the fact is everyone's important to me and also I'm sorry for not getting back to every single person because I'm bad at that.

See, this has turned into a justification. Anyway, I believe we have some iTunes comments of the week. Do we not?

It's song is such a pick me up. It is. All right, we have two iTunes comments of the week this week. The first one is by

Don W.W.U. I'm trying to find us BFF necklaces. Oh, good.

And it says Alison and Gary, I commute two plus hours round trip four times a week and you help me get through it with a smile and laughter.

You really do deserve your own talk show. I listen to many podcasts and it is only you who breaks through like a true brass

fan would and lets us truly get to know you and your guest. Thank you for what you do. I love it.

I love that. And you know why? Because she mentions that she listens to a lot but she likes us best. See, it's something negative that I'm, I mean, I'm responsible.

It's something negative in me that's making me love that. Fuck all the rest of you. I'm a great friend and so is Gary.

Okay, I'm embracing my dark side this year. This next one is by Bosox 026 and it's titled Speak to Me.

It seems like each week when I listen in Alison gets a guest to open up about their life and I feel like when she does, she helps me navigate my life.

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