Welcome to the show, everybody. Glad to have you here, especially on this day, which is a special

day around around here in my house. It's my eighth wedding anniversary. Eight years of marriage

may not be that much, you know, objectively in the grand scheme of things, but by modern standards,

anyway, we have officially entered old married couple status, which I'm very excited about.

And thinking back to that day eight years ago, you know, a lot of joy and hope and promise,

um, except the only problems that there was a torrential downpour on the day of our wedding,

you know, we were getting married on the beach, not on the beach physically. We're not hippies.

We were in a church, for God's sake, like, like civilized people, but a church at the beach.

And so the downpour was flooding roads and everything and then, you know, was messing up my wife's

hair and her makeup and my hair and makeup because we're a progressive couple. But the real problem

and anyone who's gotten, anyone who's gotten married in the last 25 years on a rainy day

knows what I'm about to say. The real problem is the nonstop,

Alannis Morsez jokes that just went on for the entire day. And every person who walked into the

church, of course, they're coming out, they're shaking off their, you know, jacket and they've

got the umbrella. And then they walk into the church and every single person goes, uh, well,

this is ironic. And then they look around, ironic. It's like, they'll, Alannis Morsez joke, yeah,

pop culture reference. Uh, and like, as if they're the first person to make the joke, which is even

more annoying because no rain on a wedding day, of course, as many people have corrected this,

that is not ironic. It's inconvenient. It's a hassle. It's not ironic. Neither is finding 10,000

spoons when you're looking for a knife in your kitchen. That's just a sign that somebody in your

house is a degenerate spoon hoarder. It doesn't mean that it's ironic in any way. In any case, happy

anniversary to my wife. Um, what I, uh, what I, and to myself, I suppose what I want to begin with

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