The birch show. What a fun, fun Saturday. Um, for Abby and for everybody that was there

on the staff and listeners that showed up for your very first live podcast. It was super

exciting. It was so, so awesome. So I, this was my first live event. We got to do it at

five church in Midtown, which by the way, an amazing rooftop. I mean, it's, it's so cool

and hip. You can see the skyline and the whole staff there is really awesome. And it was

really great to, for the first time, get to meet a bunch of listeners all at once. Um,

and I will say I was a little bit nervous leading up to it because y'all know I live in

worst case scenario. And I'm like, what can go wrong is absolutely going to go wrong.

But I will say up until about two weeks ago, I was feeling like overly confident about

it. And two weeks ago, I was having a conversation with somebody who was supposed to help me host

this event who we've been working on it for a while. Um, I got a, I had a conversation

with them where they decided to not come and they decided to back out. And so two weeks

before the event, I was like, everything I planned has just gone to crap. And I was like,

who am I going to invite to do this podcast with me? Because I, if you don't listen to my

podcast, I do it mostly on my own with like a, a cast of rotating hosts and interviews.

And who can I call that is totally and 100% available, right?

Nothing going on right now. And also like, you know, we would be happy to get paid to

spill their guts on air. So I called up my boy Romeo, which I didn't think he was going

to be available to do it because literally like 15 minutes after I had that conversation

with the person who was going to host it with me, I was in a group chat with Rebecca Cady

and Romeo. And they were trying to get me to go out or something. And I was like, Oh, guys,

I'm like in Florida because we were on break. And they said, well, you'll never guess who's

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