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Welcome to this week's episode of She's So Lucky. My name is Les. I am your host, and I'm coming at you with a solo episode today, which I feel like I haven't done in ages. Last year, I did a bunch of solo episodes. I think almost half of the episodes that I put out last year were solo. If you're not

familiar with this show, I come out with new episodes every Tuesday. And then we do the occasional

bonus episode if, you know, the mood strikes. Often that has more to do with advertisers than

us having extra content. But we don't do seasons or anything. It's just continuous. Every Tuesday,

new episode, over and over, forever. At least that's how it feels. And last year, of the probably

60 plus episodes that we put out in the year, about half of them were solos. And that was a lot. And I said, I ain't doing that again.

Not doing that again because solo episodes are actually surprisingly a lot harder than interviewing people, at least for me.

But they're not something that I get rid of entirely. One, because I know so many people in this community love the solo episodes,

and so we keep them in kind of as crowd favorites. And two, booking guests is hard.

And sometimes we don't always, you know, have everything come together, but another Tuesday

comes around and we got to have that episode come out. So I will have my solos supplement every now and again. Now, if you're

watching this episode on YouTube, you might say less. Where are you right now? To that, I would say,

I'm actually at home. And if you're listening to the audio and you hear maybe a little noise, maybe a little

street noise, maybe a little building noise, I live in New York City. And you know, you might,

you might hear a little something. I'm going to do my best to keep the sound quality good,

but sometimes things happen. So I'm keeping it real with y'all. Sometimes we have little life sounds, but we're going to try

our best to make it sound and look as good as possible. If you needed, another recession indicator,

me recording from home is it, because studio time is expensive and I'm having to reel it in.

So I thought that I would just do more of a relaxed episode,

just kind of letting y'all know how I'm doing. I don't know if I've really done an episode like

that in a really long time. And just sharing some little kind of BTS of what's going on with me,

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