If this is your first episode of The Upside, welcome. If you've been here before, welcome back.

Today is Friday, September 15th. We are recording our show today in our spare bedroom studio.

Not?

We're back in the home studio.

Not at 1022 studios because...

Technically, this is the original 1022 studio.

Yeah, and my name is Jeff Dollar today. I am grateful for Payday.

Me too. My name is Callie Dollar and I am grateful that we are in a position to be able to do things

like randomly pick up Ellie from school early, which we did yesterday kind of accidentally.

And we were just like, let's go take her to lunch. Like there was an hour left in the school day.

We were right in the neighborhood and meeting at school like for some stuff.

And we just took her with us and it was so fun.

We got some extra family time that we normally don't get during the week.

So that was neat. She was so excited because she's used to leaving it to 30 or whatever the regular time is.

And it was about like one.

Yeah. And so her teacher went in to get her and she came around the corner and you can see

you're confused thinking, where am I going right now? And then she saw Callie and she came flying down the hall.

And it was so cute.

It was so sweet. And I did need that because she's been very much about Jeff this week.

So, and like when she has been upset, she's wanted Jeff this week, which is fine.

And it just happens like, you know, kids switch off.

But as the person that grew her and, you know, in my belly,

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