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Hey, girl, hey, welcome back to my weekly podcast, Taste of Taylor.

I'm your host Taylor Strecker, and joining me, it's been a minute.

I'm so excited to have them back, Jared Fried. Welcome to the podcast.

Such a pleasure to be here. I think you came on mine kind of like a beginning pandemic-ish.

That's how we deal with time now, right? Like, I think like, you know, it's BC, AC, you know,

it's like before COVID, after COVID. The first time I noticed it was with the beach pictures,

everyone was like, look at these fucking Florida idiots on the beach. And I was like, well,

isn't that the, I was like, of all the places, wouldn't you assume the beach is the safest?

And then they would go, look at this picture. They're all on top each other. And I'd be like, yeah,

they do kind of look close to each other. Then I went to the beach like three weeks later.

And I remember looking from the ocean back, and it was everyone on the beach was six feet apart.

Taylor, I swear to God, everyone the beach six feet apart. I look up from the water's edge

up the beach. From that perspective, it looked like everyone was humping each other and on top of

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