A missing person is a person who has vanished and is unconfirmed asoles podcast. I'm Melissa and I'm Amy. So I have a couple of

housekeeping things. Really? Yeah, I know. I'm not usually the one to do this. No, you're not.

So, so we released a statement because we, and it was for our VIP Patreon folks.

And the reason that we released a statement is because we had some technical difficulties.

But if we're being honest, we've been having on and off technical difficulties for quite some time.

And to be honest with you, it's been a journey since 2019 when we started

this thinking that we were going to do a whole podcast from our iPhones and some beats

or whatever it might have been. So anyway, what I wanted to say is we are fully aware that we

have had some hiccups all along, you know, since 2019 with our programming and stuff like that.

And, you know, we've released statements in the past, but we just want you to kind of remember that we are two people that had zero experience. I mean, not to say with computers,

we know them to a degree, but with the equipment and microphones and cords and the programs that

we use to record for the podcast. And what happens is, is two people that have full-time jobs and

families and responsibilities and pets and things like that is when something happens when we're

about to record, sometimes we don't know until we're QAing it after, when we're listening for

quality assurance because that is why we do

quality assurance. And we have to make choices about are we going to release it as it is? Are we

going to pull it all together? Usually we're having conversations with Caitlin and asking her

what her thoughts are. Absolutely. And we think really hard about what we're putting out there.

And, you know, sometimes we notice right in the middle of a recording that something's going

wrong.

And we make choices then too.

And then when we make those choices, we have to sometimes go out to the store and buy

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