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Hey, you guys, and welcome to this week's episode of the pantry chat,

Food for Thought. Today I have not Josh here with me, but instead I've got Melissa Norris here

co-hosting with me. So, you know, when you can't have your spouse as your co-host, then you grab your

best friend instead. So thanks for coming on, Melissa. It's going to be fun. Yeah, I am very excited

to be here. In fact, I was waiting for you to say, this is Carolyn, and then I could say,

this is Melissa, but I actually realized I would be the one who

would normally say it and then you would say this is Carolyn. So this works just perfect.

I do such a hot job mimicking Josh. Yeah. And sometimes we even trip ourselves up. Josh and I do

and I'll get impatient for him to start. And somehow, we've done this multiple

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