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Yeah, we arrived because this isn't a bonus episode. So here's the deal, folks. Lay it on me. Back in the day, we were doing, we were doing all of our Monday recordings. And we were in this groove, doing Monday recordings. It was really fun. But then like every once in a while, something would happen. Maybe it was like something in the news or something and we did like I don't know how many maybe like 15 or 20 in total over a couple

of years where we would do these episodes called just a routine checkup and just the routine

checkup episodes would be like something happened in the news something was like relevant that

we we had to like touch on that week or even occasionally they were like follow up episodes of like a Monday. So it's say we talked about this topic and we learned a little bit, uh, some more stuff about it in the, in the, in the sort of following days of releasing that episode. Then we might release like a follow up like that. So we, we, but you're right. We did that like very, we did we didn't do a lot of those episodes. We did a few of them. So have you been an OG listener, you might have seen like a just-the-routine checkup episode come out. And then COVID happened. And right around that time, actually it was a year ago, it was a year ago this coming Friday that we released our first Feel Good Friday episode. And that was

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