Good morning, Brude Daily Show.

I'm Neil Fryman.

And I'm Toby Howell.

Today, you've got questions and we've got answers.

A special Q&A edition of the pod where things are going to get spicy.

It's Thursday, January 1st.

Let's ride.

Happy New Year and welcome to 2026. Did you know that now we are closer to Cleopatra than Cleopatra was to the construction of the Great Pyramids of Giza? It's true. And it has been for 500

years. Either way, we're very excited to begin this new chapter with you all this year.

And what better way to kick it off than by getting a little vulnerable?

We are in the hot seats today and answering questions that you all submitted to us a few weeks

ago. Some of them were too personal, like are we tidy, witty or brief skies, but everything else

was on the table. We'll run through some business and market

focus questions you had before diving into some lore about the show and ourselves. And I tell you

what, we got some young Barbara Walters on our hands because you guys ask some great questions

and some horrible ones like the tidy-wighty one. But before we dive in a word from our sponsor, Rubrik.

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