What's up everybody? This is Scott Yeager here with another edition of Challenge Mania

live from the windy city of Chicago. This podcast brought to you by ChallengeMania. Live

where you can get tickets to all of our shows and you can join us just like the folks

here in Chicago will be joining us on Sunday for Chicago Bulls. But have a ton of tour stops this

year.

You can get them all at challenge mania.com. If you didn't come from me, you came for Dee. Dee's not here this week, but he will be with us in Atlanta on March 8th, and we'll be recording a lot of episodes live in Atlanta with sketch media down there. But I'm delighted to be joined by now one of Chicago's finest, one of my favorite people. She lights up

every room she has been in, including the House on Double Agents, which she won, Ms. Amber

Boersotra. How are you? Hi, I'm good. It's always good to see you. It's great seeing you.

It's great seeing you here live in studio where you record your new podcast. Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

So tell me all about it.

Oh, my goodness.

So I landed here just so unexpectedly.

After I had my breakup with Chauncey, I had no idea what my plan was.

My friend told me, oh, the baby. Okay. Are we good to go? For those you guys who couldn't hear that, there was like a baby crying in the hallway. And just so you know, that's triggering for us, parents, right? You hear a baby crying? Yeah. You were like, oh, that's so sweet. I was like, what happened? Who fell? Oh, my gosh. I totally felt about it. But anyways, oh, no, how I got here. So then I landed, I had a friend just like come visit and...

Your friend. What's your name? Lexi. Okay. Yes, and we have a podcast called Occasionally perfect.

Love it. Um, but... So I might say you're underselling yourself a little bit. Right? Occasionally perfect. You're pretty perfect. We're pretty perfect. But occasionally we fuck up, you know? We have moments. So no, but we started filming it. We filmed here at the Chicago podcast studio. We love our team. I'm going to shout them out because I love them both. Shot them out. Luke and Tom. But no, we started, this came out of nowhere. Like, I was in a very, very, very, first of all, like, very dark place. Honestly, it was months. It was even before, like, Chauncey and I broke up. And so when I got to Tennessee, I was like, am I really going to just stay with my mom again? Like, you know what I mean? No. So my friend was like, do you want to be there? Like, come to Chicago. So I came here. She was like, what's your plan over a glass of wine? And I never left. So I'm here. And we're now like our podcast is like thriving. We're still learning a lot. It's growing. It's been so nice to talk to you and get feedback

from others. But yeah, that's how I Atlanta. I actually love it. I freaking love Chicago. And I'm in a good,

like, I live downtown near downtown. So it's like, it's very convenient. But I love it.

Well, your podcast looks great. Sounds great. Shouts to the Chicago studios here where we're doing this. And it's so funny because we've been doing Challenge Mania since 2017. But when we started our little labor of love here that has turned into a going on a decade-long career, it was mainly audio-based, right? Yeah. In the last few years, it's gotten very video based studio based they're essentially like studio

talk shows now and so for you guys like you're jumping in in 2025 or 26 and boom you're already

starting on third base where like i'm coming to you for advice where should we do our podcast in

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