Oh my god. Yep. Well, you heard it here. Andrew's back with his signature Pokemon catchphrase. Oh my god. Oh, um, I will be absolutely real. I haven't been home for a week and just as a

theme music started, I looked down and I saw a piece of tax documentation that I was looking for last week. Jesus. Isn't that over? Wasn't it the 17th? Wasn't that the deadline? Well, looks like depending on what's in this envelope.

Andrew might have to do a little more taxes. All right, we don't have time for this. To an end of you, can we live on Friday to hear this updated song at Andrew's taxes? No, I'm sure this is this is the podcast.

This raises where we listen to your racism and voicemail questions with the help of a special guest for guests in this week. We have one. I'm Tony Newsom. That's Andrew T and we've got producer Kevin Bartelt on the on the ones in twos. I'm sorry for that. But I'm very excited. I'm just trying to get through it. You know, we don't matter. We got to introduce our guest. I'm very excited to introduce my friend. One of my kind of like first friends in LA weirdly. I know. Did you know that that was?

I'm like, I'm like, like, like, maybe one of my first friends that I didn't like already have in Chicago that I came out here with me. Host of wonderful podcast, the stacks. We have Tracy Thomas. What's up, girl?

Yeah, it's me. Yeah. I'm here. Yeah, Tracy. So I met Tracy. She was an instructor at a spin studio. And I was like, I only want to take this person's classes.

Like no shade of the other instructors. I was just like, this is the vibe I want. This is the only vibe I want is the only music I want. And so I would just always come. It was like me and Poon and Patel.

Friend of the show Mary Sone. And I think like Casey Wilson would come sometime. And we're all just like call.

And a call. Thurman. Oh, yeah. And a call. We were like, we only want Tracy's class. So yeah, you're the best. And you're very well read.

Yes, it's true. Both things. And you guys used to all sit separately. So I actually didn't know that you all knew each other. And then one day we

when I were talking after class and you were like, Oh, yeah, Poon, I'm dead. And I was like, wait, you're friend. And you're like, Yeah, we're all like really close friends from Chicago. And I was like, do you know that you all take class at the same time and don't sit together?

And it was so weird. And then when I finally put it together, I was like, Oh, okay, this is a crew. I get it now.

I think we're trying to like give each other space. Yeah. I've never taken a spin class before. But I suspect I would want my friends not near me. That's my guess.

That's fair. I don't really take spin class either. I take it by myself. So I don't really know. But I think in all of our faces.

Yeah, I don't I have to be alone up there by myself all the time when my friends are there. And so when, yeah, when we first met, you were doing the stacks, which had like a slightly different format then.

And that's back when I was on the show and we had so much fun. So much. And we read a great but weird book.

Homefire.

Yes, homefire by Kamala Shamsi. Yeah. Is that right? Kamala Shamsi. Yeah.

And I was like, Oh, my God. This is exactly what I need because this podcast is going to like get me back into reading and get me out of my like a rut of authors that I just kind of stuck to before.

How has it been like switching from because you were doing both. You were like full-time teaching spin and doing this pod.

And now with the world shutting down has that like has your have your tensions shifted.

Well, so yes, but not necessarily because of the teaching. So when flywheel, can I say that I guess I can say flywheel.

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