WELCOME BACK FOR EPISODE 148 OF THE RASBOLIN PODCAST, otherwise known as RBP148, brought to you by GrandX Media, I am your host, Ross Bolin here at the GrandX Media Studio, on another fundamentally great,

blessed day in Austin, Texas, with the irrational Michael Winer, how are you? Hashtag fundamentally blessed, blessed, blessed, or blessed, whatever, yeah, it's great to be here.

It's another another great Thursday, we're barreling towards the weekend and it just it feels great. You feel alive?

Yeah, yeah, somewhat, somewhat. Okay, well we'll see if we can up that a little bit here throughout the course of episode 148 for you Mike, as he lets out a nice big yawn.

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And you can sign up with the code RBP and get 50% off your first box when you sign up for a 6 or 12 month subscription if you're new to our show the Ross Bolin podcast every episode is broken down into segments you can find those segments with time cues below in the description you don't have to listen to any of the preceding 147 episodes of this show in order to enjoy RBP 148 but if you like the show we of course ask that you go back and listen to the mall so you don't miss out on any inside jokes running jokes.

There's knowledge about animals or life in general or serial killers or pirates or any of the other interesting things that we've discussed over the course of the 147 preceding episodes here is a personal anecdote for the non skippers to say thank you for not skipping through the intro we very much appreciate you were 10 days deep into quitting season for me personally personally at least I know some of you started a couple days late or maybe just now starting.

I hope the rest of you are having as much success as I am this time around it's truly amazing how much different my mouth feels in just a week like a little bit over a week without dip it's wild and it's probably honestly partially due to quip because my new brush head came in last week to have been real get quip.com slash RBP baby but it's nuts like my mouth just feels a lot you know when you leave the dentist and you have that incredibly clean.

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