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Before we start this week's episode, do you all know what week it is?

It is the anniversary of the day we accidentally locked ourselves in the cupboard.

And that means it's essentially also a year since we started this podcast,

so we wanted to take a second and reflect on how far we've come from being trapped in a cupboard,

genuinely thinking we were going to die and waiting to be rescued to 12 months later.

Honestly, I can't believe it was 12 months ago we were trapped in a cupboard,

because since then we have been recognised as new and noteworthy by Apple Podcasts.

We were featured on a front page of Stitcher. We also made it into the top 20 for the

listener's choice for the British podcast award. I think we charted once at number 9.

Am I? Yeah, number 9. Right in between this American life and Estelle, that was a good day.

And we also got our very first sponsor, which was Audible. We are absolutely killing it on Patreon.

It's so tacky to talk about money, but go take a look at how many of you are doing,

such amazing things supporting us. It's fantastic. And before I built this absolutely crazy

engaged community on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, talking to you guys, just hearing what you

have to say, hearing your thoughts just makes it so worth it. And we are also on the verge of

launching a merch line. Did you ever think we'd say that? I honestly don't know why I ever thought

no, I don't think we'd ever have a merch line. I didn't think we'd get this far. But look

at where we are, just in under a year. We didn't realise it almost been a year since we were locked

in the cupboard. We ran into our friend, if you go back and listen to the episode of the gentleman

that we are harassing on Facebook to come rescue us. I ran into him on the train the other day,

and he showed me his calendar. And on I think it's tomorrow. It's tomorrow. Yeah. The 9th of July.

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