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Welcome to the latest podcast, number 630. Jonah, a very fun five-year anniversary show last night.

That was a blast. I was very pleased with the turnout. The crowd was great. It was weird being at

high level. We were just sitting to do it. We've never done anything special for an

anniversary show before. No, it was kind of a last minute thing. Why don't we just do something

to meltdown? Yeah, it felt right. It felt really good. It was neat, recognizing a bunch of people,

and Jackie Dan, the guy who did animation four years ago. He was there. People that have found

the meltdown show and became regular at the meltdown show, that found that show because of the podcast.

It was really fun. It was really, really fun. It was really cool that we got to do it.

I announced this in the show, but you guys know the way that the intros work is,

we have our sponsors in the intro. It's what keeps the podcast free-flowing and allows us to keep

giving them out. It really is just roughly five minutes or so at the beginning of each episode,

if you can just hang with us. But what I've realized is, and I don't know why it took me five

years to realize this, because we always promote our own shit at the top of the podcast. It

occurred to me like, well, hey, there are probably individuals who have fun things that they

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