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I did say to my mom one time, I go, yeah, I don't think I'm going to have any kids.

And she goes, yeah, kids are overrated.

I wouldn't do it.

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Yeah. All right, you guys, before I get started on my solo mission here today on the Calm Down podcast, I want to remind you that Aaron and I will be reunited. It will actually

be the first time I've seen her in some time. And I'm so excited. We will have just celebrated a

birthday on May 4th. But that's not the date we need you guys to remember. We need you to remember

May 6th. Mark it on your calendar. We are so excited to be back. Netflix has asked us back to be a part

of the Netflix is a joke fest at the Hollywood Improv. So May 6, 730 Hollywood Improv, get your tickets. All you have to do is go to Netflix is a jokefest.com and search my name, Ferrisica Thompson or Aaron Andrews. Tickets will pop up there. Or we're also going to have a link in the episode description on our Instagram. Please, please, please buy tickets because if you don't, it'll be very sad and we'll be so embarrassed sitting there by ourselves like I'm doing right now.

Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Calm Down podcast. Our girl, Erin, is on a special assignment.

She is a busy gal. She unfortunately cannot join us this week. So you know what? I gave Steve

the week off. I said, Steve, you can sit this one out and I'm writing solo because I've never been

accused of being short on words or thoughts. In fact, there's times where I'll be having a

conversation with myself in the other room. And Steve's like, what? What? I'm like, I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to myself. I don't know, though. I don't know if you guys are like that. I can fully have a conversation and multiple days by myself. Like, I would be great as Tom Hanks on a deserted island with Wilson because I can just figure it out. I can, okay,

we're going to go through a couple things in this solo podcast because if you guys know me,

you also know my train of thought is like this, squirrel, I'm going to be all over the place.

So sit down with a cup of coffee, a cocktail, or if you listen to this podcast while

you're walking around the neighborhood, or whatever it is, however you consume this podcast,

YouTube, if you're consuming it on YouTube, then you can see I have full makeup on because I was

just on a Zoom call prior to recording this podcast where I needed to pretend that I was somewhat

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