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you. I am joined by my co-hosts, Artie Virkan. Hello. Bill Rocco. Hey. And Abby Cardis.

Hello. So it's mid-September fall is definitely here. And we've got quite the COVID episode for you today.

But first, I just wanted to shout out a very important milestone. Last week was the one-year anniversary of Abby and Jules joining the panel.

And I just want to say that I know we're still trying desperately one year into this.

To schedule the first episode with all five of us on Mike together.

I know we get requests about those constantly.

I promise you we are trying and we're trying really hard.

And I wish Jules was here today.

But I just wanted to just stop and say, thank you, Abby, Artie, Jules, and Phil.

Thank you for everything that you bring to our conversations.

It's a fucking honor to collaborate with you on this project and be and struggled together.

I'm not a very, like, sentimental person.

Artie can attest, but at this one year mark of Abby and Jules joining the panel,

as we head into this like pretty bleak fall and winter, I'm

just feeling grateful to be doing so surrounded by all of this rage and solidarity. So thank you,

not just to you guys, but of course, to all of the folks who have generously given their time,

come on the show, join the panel as guests to think with us and all of the thousands of

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