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I'm Lauren DeYoung-Soulman.

I'm Brada, Iingar Plum.

And I wanted to, at the top of the episode, ask for a couple of things.

One, if you haven't reviewed this before on your favorite podcast platform of choice,

go ahead and do so and i don't

just mean like stars though thank you thank you for the stars writes some actual words give it a shot

see how it feels too if you have people that you think would love this podcast tell them and

ask them to listen to it and i say this because apparently it actually works because a friend of ours recommended this podcast last week.

And suddenly we had like hundreds more people who were listening to us.

So it actually...

Hey, you're friends.

It's incredible.

And three, if you like actually subscribe to podcasts, which I'm bad at subscribing to podcast, I just want to be real.

But if you actually do it, hit the subscribe button, just do it.

It really does help.

I don't really know what it helps with, but it makes us feel good,

and that means we keep doing this podcast.

So I wanted to ask about something that I've been very curious about for a long time.

And that is, so we just had over the weekend, you couldn't have been aware this in the news,

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