It's all my usual basic bitch, Austin Wintery answers, of course, because I am a basic

bitch for Austin Wintery. I was not accusing him of being sorry. You are the basic bitch.

Yeah, I am the bitch. I am the bitch. And this should be established.

That's a perfect sound way to be the cold open for this episode.

Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of the Overleaf StarCasting podcast.

The first of the year for 2023 and I'm joined in person by Red.

Hello, welcome to 2023. So far, it's slightly similar to 2021.

Get a lot of early 2021 vibes. We woke up this morning to message like, hey,

I'm going to blame your low key pins for the fact that there's another cruise ship in the Suez Canal.

I really got a wide back canal, man.

I can't believe the writers for this decade already ran out of plot ideas.

But yeah, we're hanging out. I got to play some board games. The friends haven't done that

in a while. So that was really, really good time. We were being extremely responsible and

taking negative COVID tests first and stuff like that. Yeah, but it's good. It's like once everyone's

like, yeah, I took a test. I'm good. It's like, okay, cool. Let's socialize.

We can actually, yeah, it's nice time. It's nice to see people again. It really is. But also,

the comfort of knowing that we're doing it responsibly is very good. But we got video

as we're a YouTube channel. That's our job. We've had actually a handful since the last regular

episode. We took our little holiday break to do the New Year's podcast, but we had some guys

in the back. We had a multiverse detail diatribe, which was quite fun. Back in early mid-December,

it's a good one. Yeah, a bit of a detailed diatribe, basically putting into words why I had been

constantly complaining to my friends about like, oh, I can't believe they're introducing a

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