Hey, everybody, it's YoA. Happy 2026. It feels weird to say happy with everything going on in the world right now. But you know what I mean? For anyone who's new here, Proxies a show about niche emotional questions answered by proxy. We'll be back in a few months with a brand new season of cases, but for now,

two important announcements. First announcement, which I am very excited about, for all paying

Patreon members, we are having our first ever group Zoom lunch hang on Friday, January 23rd at 1230 p.m. Eastern Time. That's Friday, January 23rd at 1230 p.m. Eastern time.

We're calling this a proxy processing session. Don't worry, no one's giving therapy. It's a chance to meet the proxy team and for us to process our anxieties,

fears, hopes, dreams with you. We'll light a candle. We'll look back at last year and look ahead

to the next year, talk about our pain points, goals, show some numbers, take listener questions.

The idea is as patrons who are paying for this show to exist, we want you to be in the loop about what's going on and get your input.

You know, this is an experiment. We'll see how it goes. I think it's going to be fun. Again, it's going to be on Friday, January 23rd at 12.30 p.m. Eastern time. Look out for an email

with the Zoom link. Bring your lunch. Come hang. For anyone who can't make it, we will record and most

likely release it as a bonus episode. Okay, second announcement. As I said, we are coming back

with new cases in a few months.

Until then, we are trying this thing where every other Tuesday, we will share an episode of another show we think you will like.

Did you just gag a little?

Okay, so the podcast data people tell me that everyone hates feed drops, everybody,

but hear me out.

Right now there's basically no good way for listeners to discover new narrative podcasts beyond word of mouth.

So we want to help you find new shows to add to your rotation, and we want to help other shows find their audience.

And we want other shows to do the same for us.

It's just like good podcast karma.

So today we are featuring our friends at Science Verses.

Science Verses is a podcast that pits fads against science.

They do the hard work of sifting through scientific literature and talking to experts to find out

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