Okay, I'll be funny somewhere else so he can add that instead.

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I'm Tina.

And I'm Renee.

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Hey, Tina. Hi, Renee. How are you? I am good. So far, Tina.

Hi, Renee. How are you?

I am good. So far, so good. We're recording on Friday. So I'm ready for the weekend.

I've got some reading plans lined up, a cookout. Yeah, just, yeah, we're going to do some outdoor things as usual, but it's going to be a nice weekend.

So I don't know.

August is here.

I feel like summer is winding down, although I'm not like on a school schedule anymore, but I still feel like, all right, we're in the home stretch.

I've kind of, kind of been thinking about my fall TBR.

Yes, I have a spooky TBR that I've been prepping for. And I'm also doing a cookout.

Or I'm not doing it. Thankfully, I'm going to one, which is my preferred method. And it's my

next door neighbor. Like they're having a party for, they're having actually a fundraiser for her son. So I'm like, perfect. I don't have to go far. You don't have to go far. Just walk next door. Yeah. It's wonderful. So we're doing that. I've got some reading plans, you know, lined up. I love going into the weekend with a new audio book. That's like my favorite thing is to start a new book and finish it within a weekend. And I just finished one

this morning. So I'm perfectly primed to pick out another audiobook and I have to decide what I'm

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