The cosy robot show.

Hey, cosy robots, I'm Mike McCarg.

And I'm Grace Vaughan.

Welcome to the cosy robot show, a program about empathetic skepticism,

how we get to know our feelings and relate to other people's feelings

and learn to think critically about our world and our media,

combining our thoughts and our feelings into better lived experiences.

We're so glad you're here and listen, listen, listen, listen, listen.

If you're a kind of person who's listening on Apple podcasts or Spotify later

and usually skip the beginning, or if you're the kind of person who's on a live stream,

you're like, is this entertaining enough?

Let me bounce around and I need something stimulating immediately.

Stop, slow down.

Tonight's going to be different and tonight's going to be special.

We are talking about self-empowerment this evening

and something that Grace and Victory cooked up and have talked to you all about already.

I'm getting caught up and as we're doing that, we're trying something new.

You know, I've been a podcast for a long time and there's something I know

about being a podcaster for a long time is that I'm a terrible interviewer.

I mean, really, like one of the worst

interviewers of all time.

I'm also not a particularly talented show host, so the cosy robot show,

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