We're back! We're back! It's a distraction! I'm through! That's broth! How you doing, broth?

Oh, I'm really good. Drew, how are you, man?

You know, that didn't sound very sincere. I'll be honest.

I know, I know. You want me to try it again.

I'm doing okay, man. How are you? Sorry. I went, I aim too high and I think it did come off a little foamy.

This is real fucking beat, but I did it, I did it tweet and I just, I just want to reiterate the point that like if someone says to me,

how are you? Like, I don't make me say fine. Like, sometimes I don't make me go right to fine, even if they haven't said it, they'll just be like, hello, and I'll be like, I'm fine.

And then, but like if someone comes to me and they go,

Drew, how the hell are you? Then I'm like, oh, I feel fucking great. Now you just said that. Like it's like, make it sound like you haven't seen me like 20 years and like you just went through a desert.

And I'm the only person you wanted to see that whole time you were there. And now you see me and you're so happy. Now I'm happy.

I mean, how the hell are you now, Roth?

I get that every Wednesday and it does elevate my mood a little bit. The serotonin shortages are, I would say, critical here.

And if it wasn't for you greeting me enthusiastically once a week on a Zoom call, I don't know where I'd be.

Well, that was true during the pandemic. I was like, oh, I get to actually like see another human being.

Yeah, even like in your little computer, like the idea of it, like I can't wait for you to yell at me about the Vikings for precisely 52 minutes.

Yeah, and I don't even have the box maximized because I had to look at the rundown documents. So you're like, you're literally two inches wide on my screen.

So I'm like, oh, but there he is. And you know what else is here? It's Liz Cook, Kansas City Food writer, Liz Cook, the legendary,

Liz Cook of Haterade and a freelance food critic for the pitch she joins. Hey, doing Liz.

I am doing swell, which is my default response, like a Vavillion Carnival Barker.

You know, it's swell swell is a better word. I actually, I asked my editor Barry Pichesky if I could rant against the word fine because I hate it so much.

And he's like, yeah, but why what's serious with that? And like, okay, or all right. And I was like, I don't know if I just fucking hate it.

And he's like, no, that's not really good enough. So it's good though, because it's like it both gets the message across.

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