Alright, where were we? Is this thing on? Who was still here? Remember when this show used to be weekly for about a dozen years? I don't know what happened, but somehow it's been months, and I just sort of slowly ghosted you. I didn't mean to. I think ultimately people ghost people when they don't know what to say or are indifferent.

And I'm not even going to touch that.

I don't know why people ghost people.

But I do know I didn't mean to ghost you because I kept thinking I would be right back. I really did, but

there have been no new episodes or new substacks from me since June. And I had a lot going on

in some ways and not very much in other ways and I was sorting

things out and I still have a lot to sort out but for now I do know this I miss you a

lot there's no way I'd let a 12-old podcast end with a slow fade or ghosting.

Not a chance.

You know me at all.

You know I'm the most nostalgic person in the world, and I wouldn't let that happen.

I've been recording.

I've been drafting some new ideas, how this can evolve, and I'll tell

you more about what's going on soon, eventually. But for now, I'll just say this. There'll actually

be a new episode next week. And in that episode, and actually over the next couple, you'll hear

a bit about what I'm thinking for the future,

just sort of within the episode.

But today, we're going back in time.

We're time traveling to the past.

Pretty much square in the middle of between when this podcast started, 2013, and today, we're going back to 2018, I think, 2017,

2018 with Lacey Phillips.

It's a really wild experience for me to listen back to it.

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