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Hey, this is Annie.

And Samantha.

And welcome to Steph One Ever Told You, a production of IHeart Radio.

And we are so, so, so happy to be joined once again by the excellent, the exemplary.

Bridget Todd.

Welcome back, Bridget.

Thank you for having me.

Every time I come back to hang out with you all, the intros that you give are my favorite thing.

They just leave me feeling so pumped up. Yes. I was worried I would stumble over exemplary, but I think I, I think I'm. I said, did you have that prepped ready to go? Like, what are the, what are the descriptors that I have for British? I do. I will admit, sometimes I do it off the cuff and sometimes I'm like, you know know what today I want to really pull something out that I haven't used before

You know you have to be thoughtful because it has to be true

We don't lie on this podcast

Not these I don't think

Not purposefully

Not purposefully no Brid purposefully, no. Bridget, how have you been?

Well, as someone who lives in the District of Columbia, that's always a loaded question, yeah, it has been weird. The vibes in D.C. are, no one's having a good time. But, you know, we're hanging in there.

I think it's been interesting the ways that people are coping and, like, leading into

community, leading into, like, what's happening in there, on their block, things like that.

I think people are really kind of focused on, like, what's happening at the local level to sort of distract from all of the dread happening at the national level here in D.C. So it's been a lot. How are you all coping, feeling, hanging in there?

There's a lot of stress and anxiety, for sure. I will say today I have had a fun distraction at my friend's expense because her snake

got out of its aquarium and she can't find snake. And so I've been getting a lot of updates

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