So here we are. Matt is not here.

Matt is not here. He's still on dad leave. This is part of our time travel

segment because I still think there is an episode. Yeah, we still have one episode in the can

that's coming out next week that is from before baby exists. but we will be writing that the timeline will fix

itself after that and we will be all be back in the same time stream i'm here with uh root today

um say hi root hi root i mean uh hi nice um, so this is a bonus episode today that we're throwing your way.

We still have a, we have a Galactic Council episode that me and Root are going to record in just a little bit, but you won't be hearing that for another couple days.

And it is a Ti-Lore episode. I'm really excited about doing it. But Root, you actually recorded,

when did you record these? It's been like a minute, right? Yeah. I was just checking my notes

about these and this was recorded in April. It's been a while. Cool. So this is like in the tournament is like in full

swing. Does that kind of take a so, so okay, sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself. So what

happened is that Root recorded for us some conversations with prominent community members.

We're kind of calling this, I believe you're calling it the fireside chats.

Yeah. And we are going to kind of periodically drop these into the feed, not necessarily to

replace episodes, but to kind of like, instead of being like, hey, there's a late episode,

so you just get nothing. I think these are meant to like kind of satiate, satiate, there we go, the community while we get the next episode ready to go.

So this first one is with Magi, correct?

It's with Magi.

He was kind of the inspiration for this whole thing to begin with, so it just felt necessary to start with him.

Yeah, cool, cool.

I'm going to do the rundown real quick, and then we will get right into the episode proper.

This is all just business at the top, and then we will toss it over to Root and Magi.

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