Hey, Brace, how's it going? I am doing fantastic. Oh, great. Nice little clearing of the throat there. I feel like it makes me sound more dignified. Like, that's something that, like, businessmen and, like, that's like a tycoon trait is to clear the throat before you say something. It gives it import. I don't think that's true. Imports like a cool word for

importance. I don't know if you picked up on that. So, uh, oh wait, we're doing a cold open, aren't we? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, uh, I just messed it up. You just turned it hot, honey. you just turn this cold, you just turn this cold open hot.

Yeah, we're hanging out here in the cold open room.

You know, a lot of people, you know, obviously we are forbidden by federal law from

recording video of these opens.

But a lot of people don't know that I do them in the nude, and Liz actually wears several parkas.

So I'm freezing, because as many people know,

I record from a chicken coop in my neighbor's backyard.

Liz is sweating.

And so that dynamic right there,

that yinning the yang is what makes this podcast perfect.

Yeah, that's the dialectic.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, it's synthesis, which is cold and nude.

No, that would be thesis.

Excuse me, the thesis is cold and nude.

The antithesis is blazing hot and moist with sweat.

Dewey.

Girls call it doy.

The synthesis is just a normal guy.

That's me.

That's Young Jomsky.

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