And now we go live to Tyrrell's farm!

Down here in Heidefischer, the folks are busy bringing in a bumper crop of local spuds.

And of course, when you have the finest potatoes,

only the tastiest ingredients will do.

That's where the tasting team come in.

Big chili coming through!

All this ensures their crisps taste de-radi-licious.

In fact, the Tyrrell's team have done such a spiffing job.

People across the land are calling their crisps terribly, terribly tasty.

So if you heard yesterday's episode of the upside, or I guess the non-episode,

as we called it, of the upside, it shouldn't surprise you that we have to start today's show

with a bit of really, really...

I don't even want to use the word sad, news, devastating news.

Katie, who writes the pick me up newsletter,

uh, Katie found out on Tuesday just before we were going to hit send on the,

on the birthday edition of the pick me up newsletter that we've been talking about for two weeks now.

Katie found out that her mom had been involved in a bad car accident and did not survive

that car accident. Katie lost her mom on Tuesday very suddenly.

Very unexpectedly.

It was, we were literally texting about random work stuff.

And five minutes later, she called, just devastated.

That she had lost her mom, Jan, who is her best friend. And, um, you know, it was over in an instant.

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