Welcome to this episode of Solved, plucked from deep in our archives. You may not realize we've actually been doing this show since way before it was called Solved and started being posted to YouTube. So this is good stuff. I also wanted to let you know that we're temporarily slowing down the pace of production for new episodes of Solved while we reorganize our processes here on the back end to get ourselves on better footing

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of Solved. Welcome, everyone. Thanks for listening and supporting the show, as always. As is often the

case, the whole crew is with me.

That's Amanda, Dion, who has returned, and Aaron offer the folks a greeting if you're feeling up to it.

Hey there. Hello.

Hope everyone's doing okay.

Yeah, yep.

Are we doing okay?

I'm not sure.

I mean, we've had more technical issues that's almost torpedoed the last episode.

We were having publishing delays all around the bonus show and the regular show.

I think we got to take, I mean, for the bonus show, for sure,

we're going to take next week off for the holiday,

which, like, could not come soon enough,

and we'll have to see about the regular show as well. But I feel like we need catch-up time to get ourselves sorted once again.

Bit of a breather.

I feel like our audience thinks we're worthy of that.

Like, we put in our work and we might be deserving of a week.

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