Before I begin today's episode of Potterless, I just wanted to thank everybody who has told

a friend or family member or someone that they know to listen to Potterless.

Recently I've noticed a pretty big uptick in people either mentioning on Twitter or Facebook saying,

hey friend, I think you should listen to Potterless Podcast. It's really funny, blah, blah, blah.

And that's definitely the best way to spread news about a podcast is telling someone directly,

hey, here's this thing, it's great, you should check it out. And the fact that a lot of you guys

are doing it unprovoked is so great. So thank you so much. I really do appreciate that because

it really does help. And the Potterless family, the team gets bigger, we get more friends. And what's

not to love? So thank you guys. And speaking of thank you, we got to thank our newest Patreon

supporters. So huge shout out to Deborah Wilkes and James Canneos and a giant shout out to Natalie

Clubbucciar. I hope I'm pronouncing your name properly for being our newest producer level patron.

So thank you guys so much. If you want to join the patron team head on over to patreon.com slash

Potterless. You get bonus content in exchange for donating to the podcast and all of the money

goes back into the podcast. I recently just bought a little upgrade to the audio system so it can

make it sound even better. So thank you guys so much. I really do appreciate it. Today's episode is

absolutely hilarious. It's easily one of the funniest episodes that I've put out. Unfortunately,

the audio didn't come out super well on Sydney's end. She doesn't have a microphone. So I had her

to a voice memo on her phone for the audio, which usually works super well. But I think she put the

phone near her laptops exhaust fan because about happened through the episode, you'll hear a fan

ish noise in the background when she's speaking. So it's not the worst thing in the world, but I just

wanted to let you guys know in case that became a little bit distracting. I think that the episode

is so funny that it makes this a moot point. And it's something that we can all get over because

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