so if we want to keep that on television no no no on television can't say on television that's so anyway I mean the next wait that's really funny though the next couple of sentences I'm going to make y'all read this book for yourself because I literally can't say them on the screen.

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Hi, Hannah. Hey, Tina. How are you? I am great. How are you? I am doing okay. I am feeling better. And you look

great. Thank you. You look great. Got ready to go, you know, I put some makeup on. Because the people can see

us if you're watching on YouTube, which leads us into my announcement. That's what I wanted to bring up is we have a YouTube

channel and this podcast also has a video component. So if you would like to see my makeup, Hannah's

cute mug, Hannah's face, head to our YouTube channel. We'll definitely link this here in the show

notes. It's something that John had his hyperfixation on and did a really good job with it. And I'm very excited to expand. Sorry to cut you off. I just got excited. I, no, I love it. And I think it's great to share with people who are just listening in their ears to let them know that now you can see our faces if you want to. It's been really fun. Yeah, it is. It's a tiny bit distracting, like, because I'm like cognizant, okay, like, don't have you, don't be like looking at your phone or like doing other stuff. I know right. Yeah. It's actually great because it forces me to be even more present, right? So I'm like, all right, this is a fun endeavor for us. And I'm still over on my YouTube channel as well. That's my hyperfixation. I'm loving it. So that's always linked in our show notes too. And today we're sharing our joint latest read, which is our community read for our book talk, et cetera, patrons for the month of February. And I have a lot to say about it and then we're sharing the

two books how well I guess we'll do that in book talk because I want to know how the reading

experience went for you but I had so much fun selecting my books based on the first sentence yes

I think I could have read I could have read 100 first sentences and just kept going it was really

fun yeah it was really fun for me too.

Yes. So I'll kick things off though with, I keep saying hyperfixation, but that's like what this is.

My loving lately is another, this is a hyperfixation meal that Jonathan and I have both been

really into right now. It is a recipe. Kale pasta Caesar salad.

Okay. And so it's basically a version of multiple things that I've sort of combined together. And I've been making this a while. I made this years ago. But I sort of recently remembered that it and we both love it. And I will link the recipe below. It's from love and lemons. There's a million kale Caesar salad recipes out there. But this is the one that I'm riffing on. My salad when I make it has kale. And the key with kale is you got to cut the ribs out and you got to massage it. So it's like, I don't know, juicier, whatever. Yeah. Uh-huh. Put some shaved parmesan in there. I roast up some chickpeas and

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