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Hey, guys.

We are back on normally the show with normalish takes, but when the news gets weird.

I am Mary Catherine.

I'm Mary Catherine.

How's it going?

Ah, you know, it's been a sad week.

Yeah, we were in Mexico City for the weekend, a trip that we had planned for about a year.

We got tickets to Sissy Oasis with the kids, and we almost canceled.

And we didn't just because we didn't want to disappoint the kids.

But I've just been devastated, obviously, really, really out of it.

And I have to say that my very normie,

not into politics, not super online husband has also been like that. And we've just have both

been so sad and trying to reflect and be optimistic for the kids, really. Yeah. It's a very hard thing to see.

I mean, even if you didn't see it, just for it to have happened at all for a friend and

colleague to be gunned down for doing the thing that we love to do.

Yeah.

And I don't mean to make it about me, but it's very hard to watch this thing that I love

that I think is very healing, talking to people who believe differently for you. I grew up with

all people who disagree with me. And I have always engaged with them in civil and almost all

the time kind ways. Like I'm sure I've misstepped here and there.

But like, I think that's what matters.

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