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Greetings to you and welcome. If you are new to the show, to describe it for you this show, my name is Brandt, by the way, and Sherry's here too.

I've heard it describe, people say it's very goofy and very meaningful.

Well, that's nice.

I like that too.

I like that.

Because you will hear extreme goofiness, and some people are put off by that. Like, well, this is just silly. Yep. It is totally silly. We embrace it. What did one of our coaches, on-air coaches said, well, it's just absurd? That's true. We always said, thank you. Every now and there, we have his consultant step in to tell us where it's absurd.

And then he leaves.

Thank you.

How much do we owe you, sir, for that?

But also, hopefully there's a lot of meaningful stuff, too.

So it's a mix because we feel like that's life, too, right?

If you don't mind, let me tell you what passion really is you don't mind

because i'm a words nerd you know that but if you go back to the old actually it's late latin

but it comes from a root word you know what the root word means anyone you know what i do not know

it means suffering oh well okay that makes sense like that's the passion of Christ

that's what passion meant but endurance is the other word like enduring and i got to tell you like

i look at older couples for instance they're 80 years old and they have the wherewithal those still

hold hands every now and then,

or to flirt a little bit or joke one another

and look at each other a certain way.

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