Hi, real talk, if you haven't heard this today, I love you. I effin. Love you.

Hi, I'm Daisy Rosaria. And I'm Natish Paola, and you're listening to I see YMI. In case you missed it.

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Well, obviously, neither Natish nor I are Rachel.

She had to deal with a family emergency, but of course, we will miss her.

You miss you a ton, Rachel, and I'll be back in the show soon, and hope I go all as well.

But no need to worry.

Us two big nerds here will do our best to hold things down in her absence.

Indeed.

We will bring back the classic Daisy Natish fire from last November, if I recall correctly.

So look, Natish, I don't know about you, but I am the kind of person that will literally count down the days until the clocks change. I have been known to tweet like six more

weeks until the sun. And like I know, I absolutely know that it's a pain for

parents and, you know, other people also don't like the time change thing. But here's my thing.

I, I need son. I live with anxiety and depression and I need son. I am with you on all of those things as it turns out. I very much

need more sun, especially at this time of year. It is ridiculous that we're only getting snow

in recent weeks and it's so gray and dour. I need that a spring sunshine asap. Yeah, just like immediately.

I was also thinking about just how hard things have been, like in general. You know, like I personally

feel like I'm still recovering from 2022. Like if you had a great 22, by the way, I would kind of

love to hear about it just because I honestly don't think that anyone did. No, it has not been a great 2022 by the way i would kind of love to hear about it just because i honestly don't

think that anyone did no it has not been a great 22 and it's not been the best 2023 either

i've been telling friends recently last month was kind of a big old l month for me a lot a lot of

ls uh week by week day by day in some instances. So

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