John always laughs at me if we go out of town for like a weekend and we come back, I'm like,

oh, everything's rotten. Like I just assume that everything in the fridge is no longer good.

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Hi, Renee. Hey, Tina. How are you? I'm good. I'm excited. Boy, this one I prepped for so long,

and I'm sure you did too, because I'm like, wait, now, is it overhyped? Is it underhyped? Is it

medium hyped? Did it deserve the hype? Like, I was like really analyzing where I landed with

some of these books. Yes, same. I did a lengthy prep last night. So when we're

recording, it's Friday. And I think I spent a good, I know, three and a half to four hours.

Now, I was also watching the Harry and Megan documentary that dropped on Netflix. So I was, I was doing both and just letting time kind of go because I had no

plans. But I do want to say, and I don't know if it's the same for you, we kind of like touched

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