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free show. Hey Katie how how are you doing?

Jesse you sound like shit, and normally I would guess this is just your voice, but something's going on, what's happening?

Well, do you remember when I was in Colorado and my microphone wouldn't play nice with my laptop and I had to borrow a

certain fascist commentators microphone. Yeah it was Wesleyangs, the fascist

was. Yeah. So remember how I was like Katie can you figure out how to map that not happen again?

Yeah, yeah definitely he called me the IT guy.

I'm in I'm in my hometown and I'm in it with that same travel laptop and it turns out I just sort of forgot to ever fix that so the recording you're here so unlike me I'm usually so conscientious. I know. This recording was made with my

Pixel 8 voice app and I'm surprised. This is not a commercial.

This is not a commercial though if Google wants to give me money. I'll take it

In exchange for positive coverage of course. Yeah, I was surprised at the quality of

Google's voice recorder, but then I sent it to you and you disagreed so So we're sorry we're sorry once again Jesse fucked up. We're sorry

Well Katie we're even because there was a delay tell tell the people what you did this week

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