Hi, everybody, welcome back to Be There in Five podcast. I'm Kate Kennedy, your host. I hope everyone's staying warm. I hope everyone's staying as sane as one can. I am sitting by my faux. Fireplace in my

office wearing a quince sweater. I think it's sponsoring this episode. Love an affordable

cashmere sweater. It's like a turtleneck and I'm doing an Olson tuck, which basically means you

put a like turtleneck or a high collar over your head but you don't pull your hair out

all the way. But it's that messy bun thing where like some people look artfully messy in ways

that like there's no way they like pulled out a hair here and there, you know, clothed,

ploff the undone look. They just simply exist that way. But then when you do it, you can't

quite figure out the right amount of like messy or undone to make it look like you didn't try.

So anyway, that's where I'm at right now. It's also known as, you know, 11-year-old wants to know

what she'd look like with a bob. Next to the Martha Washington front hair flip done at

suburban pools. I'd say it's one of the top five most notable

hair tricks of my youth. I would say one is also realizing that you don't need to buy a topsy

tail to be able to do a topsy tail because your fingers arguably topsy your tail better than the

topsy tail does. And it's just a plastic pick with a circle at the end.

Speaking of things no one ever needed. Um, okay. So while I'm on, uh, writing hiatus, I've been

picking out the episodes that I think deserve a second life, whether it's going back in the

archives to resuscitate or mash up something or, or give you stuff from Patreon. And I have

some other fun stuff planned. But this week wanted to hear from you about what you wanted to hear. And like I literally, like I should have known better. I was kind of expecting Mormon mommy bloggers or something. The verdict is in in terms of your votes. And when the first couple rolled in, I was like, well, you guys are trying to sabotaged me. And the one we're talking about today, I was, if you know, you know. This is an episode that is such a point of contention for me, but also such a, also is a source of like joy and such an inside joke with the Beths that like I also knew I had to do it. And something about this episode like over time, the idea of it really embarrasses me. But I guess I need to take you.

Let's walk through this. Okay, so I'll take you back to when this was. This was a trying time. And when I say that, you're like, which one? We've been through a lot of trying times in the past several years. But specifically, this is like a very unique point in time. The date is March 14th, 2020. The world is about to change

as we know it. There's a lot we don't know. Everyone is freaking the fuck out. And social media is

about to erupt into a whodunit of finger pointing, hot take giving and general outrage toward

anyone and everyone trying to go out for a St. Patrick's Day bar crawl.

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