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Welcome to the Bad Broadcast. I'm your host, Maddie Murphy.

Hi guys, welcome back to a new episode of The Bad Broadcast.

Gosh, I don't even know what thing I want to talk about first.

Okay, so last week I asked you guys to submit to me opening lines that I could say at the start

of every podcast because after almost two years of doing this, it's still so hard to get the first

sentence out of your mouth when you sit down in front of a microphone. Really thought it would be

easier by now, but it's not. So I'm like, maybe if I had a tagline, it would be easier.

So you guys submitted them to me and there were some good ones. There were some good ones.

There were some that need some workshopping, but there were a lot of good ones.

Most of them, like the vast majority, said that I should open episodes by

calling you guys baddies, like calling you guys that. And I don't know what it is,

but it just doesn't feel natural for me to say the word baddie.

Like I just don't like saying it. One time last year, I was trying to figure out

how to do my makeup because I don't really know how. And I went to Pinterest and I looked up

baddie makeup and it still haunts me to this day. Like the fact that I typed the word baddie

unironically. And I don't know, I just don't feel like I'm on that level yet that I can say it.

But maybe one day, maybe one day, and I like that you guys call yourselves that. I just don't know

why I, I, it doesn't feel natural. When I had Patreon, I was calling people baddies,

like sure for Patreon. And that one I did like, I like saying baddies patties. And then there were

a lot of suggestions for saying like dad or daddy, like calling myself your guys as daddy,

but a lot of people already do that. Obviously there's color daddy. And I like

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