If this is your first episode of The Upside, welcome.

If you've been here before, welcome back.

Today is the day after yesterday, which would be the Friday, August 25th, 2003.

We usually have a big board that says, like, what day it's going to be when, like,

what show we're doing.

And right now, we don't because we're like, Oh, it's Friday and we have, like, kind

of a casual schedule today, but we have Friday's really well memorized Friday's show schedule

wise.

So Jeff was like, I'm just not going to put it on the board.

But so the one thing we always forget about is like the date, but that's not a guess

because I'm looking at it right now.

It says today is when we're recording this is 824, which means when you're hearing

this, it's 825.

It's definitely Friday.

My name is Jeff Dollar and today I am grateful for, oh, I know, I am grateful for Ellie being

able to tell school related stories better than she did just a couple months ago, because

now they come with context and background and stuff, or before we would just get three

words and we would have to make up the rest of it.

It was, it was, it was toddler madlibs, but now she can say she went to the playground.

She fell down.

That's why her shoe was filled with sawdust, you know, we get the whole, we get the whole

thing.

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