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No welcome mat. today is Thursday January the 11th

Cecil and I don't have any pithy intro Well you just launched a podcast I did just launch a

podcast god damn it well we talked about it last week so we did we just

launched talking ship habe and I just launched Talking Ship.

I've already rated it five stars.

Thank you, Cecil.

I appreciate that five star rating.

If you're listening and you want to go give it a listen,

you should rate it five stars as well on iTunes.

Give it a five star rating. You guys don't be mean. Don't be mean. That's a good key. It's a fun show with you and your life. It is. Yeah,

Haley and I are having a blast doing this show. We've got a bunch of them recorded. We've got

Haley is so so fun to work with on this show. She's mapped out six months of

topics. How great is that? And then she's and it's so funny because she's like okay did you read the article for

the for this one and I'm like well when are we recording it and now you've

worked with me now for years right so it's like you'll read it 16 minutes

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