All the Gites, okay, just a few more days until we're back in the swing of things and I'm back back with all new fresh episodes

Starting with a brand new mini-sode that will serve as a companion to this encore

But I've been saving this episode to replay for about five years. The time is right. The guest has changed my life in so many ways

Which is why we're doing that follow up mini-sode with her with a bunch of updates and even some tips on what's helped me your internet lady dad

Little last few months when processing the farewell of your grandpa my dad

That'll be new and up in a few days, but for now settle in this is one of the best episodes we've ever done

It's time it's time to re-hear it. This was the sixth episode ever published back in at 2017

When I was editing it myself and using six dollar mic cables and I've learned some lessons. Okay

Oh boy, wow, okay, here we go

So from the moment I heard that this allergy existed

I knew I wanted to run as far away from it as humanly possible

Which then made it obvious that I should dive into it sooner rather than later

So in fact when I sat down with this week's guest the first thing I said was that I'm a little anxious about mortality and

She said she'd listen to other episodes and

Um, I picked up on that and I was like oh

We have this locked and loaded. She had my number

Now I've wanted to do a project about allergies for over a decade and each time I write out

allergies my computer

auto-corrected to eulogies and I get a little shiver

I get a little scared and then the wind

whispers at me

One day everyone you know and love will be eaten by a fungus and rotting back into the earth

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