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I'm Amanda.

And I'm Julia. And Julia, I'm coming in with some late breaking news. I have not spoken to you about

this so that I get your true reaction here on the show. You may know that I moved apartments last

month. I do. And the new one is almost set up. And something I've discovered about this new place is that there is an all black cat that sits on the fire escape and just like watches what's going on.

Now, I've seen them on the neighbor's fire escape, not yet on mine.

But I do.

Is it bad that I want it?

Is it bad that I want him or them or her to come sit and

guard me? No, I love that. That's someone's familiar and the sooner that you get more

familiar with that familiar, the better. I hope so. I hope that she eats well. There are some

other fire escapes with gardens on them. There are a lot of

like doves and pigeons flying around. So now Amanda, recently we were talking about how you have like a fire

escape outside your window, which is like kind of like Juliet balcony-esque, I would call it. And we

were talking about whether or not you were going to put some plants on that fire escape. Have you considered making your new best friend a little

patch of catnip? Oh, Julia. With their favor. That's exactly what I have to do. Okay, good. I wanted

to run my plan by you before I take any drastic steps to, you know,

befriend or sort of discourage local familiars. But this is perfect. And I would love that.

Yes, you should do that. The owner of that cat might not be happy when their cat comes back super high from your apartment. But, hey, man, then that's why you don't have an outdoor cat.

Anyway. Yeah, I mean, she has no collar you don't have an outdoor cat anyway.

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