Hello and welcome back to Well Played, presented by this game.

I'm Caroline Henderson.

And I'm Blake Morgan.

Do you remember us?

I was just about to say that.

Yeah.

It's been several minutes.

I wish that they could show my face as you were saying, welcome back to well play, because

I put on the biggest smile ever.

You saw that in the peripheral. It was a little corny of me. I'm not going to like. But we're embracing cornyness in 2026 maybe. OK, good. Just like earnest. I'm happy to be earnest. I was really happy. So you read that. Also, like, nothing's embarrassing unless you make it embarrassing. You know? Especially in this room, it's pretty hard to get embarrassed.

I feel like we out embarrass each other a lot.

All the time.

So it's actually a brag.

Safe space.

Yeah. things embarrassing unless you make it embarrassing you know especially in this room it's pretty hard to get in there i feel like we out embarrass each other a lot all the time so it's actually a brag safe space

yeah yeah um how is the end of your 2025 into 2026 since we last saw each other um mostly excellent

except i fucking there it not even a minute into the episode. First one of 2026, baby. And I like slowed down to like decide. You know, because you like were catching yourself, but it was already, the train was already going. I'm sorry, Queen Anne, Podmom. Sorry, Ann. Already in 2026. It's something I'm working on this year. It's a resolution.

I say that every year, but this year I'm being serious. It was good except I hurt my knee when I was skiing. You did. You did. And you were so annoyingly cryptic. Like, here's one thing you should know about me at this point in our friendship. Don't fucking text me. I really fucked up

like starting with that

and then

ending with my knee, that's the context. Nothing else. I was like, did you die? Did you,

is your leg needing to be amputated? I know. This is where my anxiety takes me. I think I was

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