Hi, everyone. Before we get into today's episode, we have some sad news to share. Some of you may have seen on H. Allen's Instagram are out on the Lanai mascot, H. Allen and Michael's fur baby, Frazier, who I love but who scared the shit out of me all the time in

this podcast, has joined our four Golden Girls behind the pearly gates, way up in the sky.

And so we just kind of wanted to take a moment before the episode to talk about what Frazier

meant to us and to this podcast. I will say, I mean,

obviously, and we've talked about this on the podcast before, that Frazier kind of came

along around the same time as this podcast. And I always saw Frazier as someone who was always trying to keep me on my toes,

again, by scaring the shit out of me. And, but, but was a cat that would, was like a dog.

Like you could pet Frazier like a dog. And, and I always loved that about him that he would

have never tried to scratch. Betty White would have loved Frazier. Betty White would have loved Frazier him that he would have never tried to scratch.

Betty White would have loved Frazier.

Betty White would have loved Frazier.

They all would have.

They all would have.

But Betty White in particular would have loved Frazier.

Yeah, no, I, you know, it's so funny.

I, um, we weren't going to do this.

We were going to take this week off because obviously for reasons,

you know, clear reasons. And I then last night I was so yesterday when it all happened,

I was watching the Golden Girls as we do, you know, in tough times. And I was looking at the

comments and reading the DMs from people, especially the,

you guys, everyone who listens to this podcast and who has been listening for so long,

reaching out and talking about their memories about Frasio on the podcast.

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