Like, think about it. I'm like, hey, best friend in the world, Charlene, let's say you're my best friend in the world, which you are, by the way.

Points coming over here.

Welcome back to Dear Shandy listeners. Hello, Andy. Hello. How are you today? Good. Good. Good. Good. I don't know. I'm doing good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're doing good together. We're recording this on a holiday. We are. It felt right. Do we have anything we want to say before we get going? I feel like we're both a little like quiet today.

We haven't spoken much today actually.

No, there has not been a lot of talk.

We were singing.

There was singing.

We spoke in song.

Yes.

We were playing Billy Joel while getting ready today.

Yeah, that's always good.

Yeah. That's always good. Yeah. And dire straits.

I've decided that I like dire straits. Wow. You finally came around. Well, you never really didn't like them. You didn't know them. I was under exposed to dire streets. Very, very good. And I think, even though they did get their due for sure, underrated Ben. Yeah. What I like about them is it's sort of like a painter who has a clear aesthetic.

Even if you're not like, wow, that's my favorite aesthetic.

You're like, I respect that aesthetic. When you hear dire straits, I can name dire straits in three, well, that's pushing it, five notes. That's pretty impressive. I hear five notes, I got it. In some ways, that's more impressive than just making one beautiful song after another. Yeah. Okay. Well, we have some A's to Q today, but before we do that, we're going to do that thing we've been doing with Q&A's at the top, where we remind our shandies in case you are the kind of shandy who would want the shandy take. You would want our advice on something going on in your

life. But you're like, but I don't want to be on a podcast. I don't want to come on as a caller. You could send in an anonymous question, but, you know, there's no guarantees that it'll get chosen. In fact, I'm just so touched on how many questions we get. It's really so, like you, I cannot tell you how full my heart is. I was always worried we wouldn't get enough questions for the

stupid thing. Yeah, and we get so many questions from you guys. And they're all so great. It's actually hard to choose. But for the people who are like, I don't want anything about my life out there for thousands of Shandies to hear. Totally respect that. We have Shandy off the record now where you could chat with us one-on-one

sort of like a caller episode, but it'll never see the light of day. It'll never go out to the

public. So if that's something you feel would suit you and your needs, then you can email

Dear Shandy at gmail.com for more information. All right, Andy, are you ready to A our Shandy's Q's?

Let me have them. Let's do it. I love Q&A's. Yeah. They're still my favorite. The best.

All right, this first question is from Anonymous. I have a friend who considers birthdays to be

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