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The Hello, Internet.

I'm your wife host, Teresa McElroy.

And you're listening to Shmanners.

It's extraordinary etiquette.

For ordinary occasions.

Hello, my does.

Hello, dear.

How are you?

I'm as well as can be expected.

Is it the heat? It's the heat. I don't go outside anymore. Well, yeah, that sweaty corn underneath the heat dome, it feels more... You're really into corn sweat right now. Well, it feels like we're

written, we're living in like one of the weird or poorly written Stephen King novels.

We're like, you go outside and you're like, I can't get past this barrier anymore.

Why is he getting so hot in here?

And it's like, the corn's haunted.

And it's like, what?

Um, okay, cool.

Um, I guess we need to fight a heat demon embodied in a, it's weird. It's weird. It's a weird thing. But it's summer. Okay, I know I've asked this a couple of times, but we're definitely in the dog days now, right? I mean, yes. I mean, yes. I assume because all the dogs are panting. That's my theory. I think that's it. I'm not willing to look it out. Okay. It feels like an idiom that I should look up because we do that. Save it for the episode. Yes. But you know what? Summer makes me think of summer vacations. Road trip. Road trips. We've taken a few down to Huntington. I mean, that's not super long. Well, we've taken, I mean, you know, I was thinking of this summer. Yeah, I was like, we've road trip. We've road trip to other. When Teresa and I moved to L.A., we lived in L.A. for two years, we drove, it ended up being a nine-day-long drive, not constant, obviously, averaging about,

I think,

six to seven hours of driving a day,

but starting in Ohio and driving to Los Angeles.

Yes,

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