Hello! corn-fueled theme-park journalist. I'm Carlyle, and I am coming at you from Colorado.

If it seems like I'm out of breath and I can't get words out of my mouth,

thanks altitude.

I've been here for a week and somehow I still have not. I've not gotten back to being

altitude friendly. I'm not good with it even though I am back in the family house that we

temporarily lived in during the pandemic.

It's actually pretty wild.

I launched the podcast from this house, which was never the intent.

The podcast was in the works well before the pandemic, and we ended up moving to Colorado for many reasons

including I don't think I've ever mentioned this here but part of the reason was

the podcast because in 2020 the our neighbors on our right-hand side, they demolished a house

and were building some horrible box house.

You know, there's like huge modern gross houses.

They were building one of those. I say gross because I like old

architecture. I mean it's a nice looking house, but I like old. I like houses have been around for a hundred years. I like stuff like that. So they were building this house and the bulldozer was so intense

that our house was shaking and I was actually the first podcast episode I was supposed to record

was with Paul Shear, our first Hidden Mickey's episode,

and I had to cancel and reschedule because the house was shaking so much.

So that's part of the reason why we ended up in Colorado in this house

that I am now podcasting to you from years later.

Isn't it fascinating?

Time is really a construct, I cannot handle it.

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