Hey, hey, hey, time to put your middle to the test now.

So I know I'm normally the video games person here.

I know that's where I normally come into this, but I have to talk to you both about something

that isn't video games and I don't know where else to do it.

I'm absolutely here for that.

Yeah.

I tell you what, Laura, if you don't want to talk, if you don't want to talk about video games, I am here to facilitate

that desire.

I support this bold new direction that you're taking on the podcast.

It's nice to not talk about video games for a change.

This is the future.

And I'll say this.

The story I'm going to tell you today might lead to

future weeks where we don't talk about video games is because this is an evolving story and it hasn't

ended yet. Please, I can only come so many times today. I need to tell you about the greatest

thread of spam emails I've been receiving for the last six weeks with an

evolving narrative. Yes, looking forward to this. So back in mid-April, I started getting spam emails from

Bethia, who is some kind of future-telling psychic. And usually I spam all the spam emails straight

away, but there was something about this one that I was like, I need to not spam this. I need to know where this is going. First of all, Bethia,

adamantly believe she knows my name, date of birth, and year of birth, which are all completely

wrong, but she's very, very confidently stating them. So she starts to, you know, starts off nice

and easy. There's some kind of world-changing

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