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Hey, Casey. What's going on? Oh, Millie. Not much. How are you?

I don't know. I'm a little stressed out right now, but otherwise I'm fine. Well, I'm a little

stressed out too because you know how we've been receiving all these coded

messages to our Dear Movies I Love You email?

I mean, I sort of peek in there from time to time and then I would open up certain emails

and they just had a bunch of gobbledy gook.

So I just shut them and move on.

Yeah, we've been receiving, you know, pages upon pages of coded cipher messages, you know,

and we were like, what does this mean?

And there's been, like, threatening letters attached saying, like,

you have to read this code on on the air on your podcast and we

haven't you know um I actually had no idea that was happening I just thought it was like

somebody tried to send us a fax and it it turned out badly so you're telling me that we've

been getting threatening letters. Yes. Yes.

And I've been working with our legal department to just sort of figure out what the best way to

pursue this is because we don't want, you know, we don't want to comply to this, you know,

terrorists threats, you know, if that's the case. So, but I spent a few weeks.

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