Welcome to Our Hen House. This is Jasmine Singer.

This is Mary Ann Sullivan.

And this week is Our Hen Report, which means there's no guest, just us.

And Marian, I'm so happy that you're here because if you weren't, it would be just me. That would be a very minimal session, I have to admit. No guests, no me. No, I would... You'd do great, though. Oh, thanks. I would start singing or something slightly off-key. No, you did the top of the show last week, all by yourself, because I was sick. And you did great. We got compliments about it.

Well, that's very kind.

How are you feeling?

You know, I feel better than I did, but astoundingly, even though I'm well more than a weekend.

I don't feel great.

Yeah.

I know you have a bad cough, but our listeners will be spared from that because Vicky will edit out your

horrendous coughing.

Vicki should just walk around with me everywhere and edit me.

Oh, somebody should do that.

Life would be so much better.

I would be so much smarter.

I feel uncomfortable complaining because, let's face it, as problems go having the flu is not as big a problem as

most people have. But at the same time, you know, it was bad. It was really bad. I haven't had

something like that in a very long time. Yeah. No, it was terrible. It was very concerning. It does

remind you. I mean, I feel so Pollyanna-ish saying this sort of thing, but was terrible. It was very concerning. It does remind you. I mean, I feel so polyanish saying this sort of thing, but...

I thought you said polyamorous. I was like, that's not... That would really be a stretch right now. Holy shit.

That's a whole different podcast. Anyway, just if you know anybody in your life who's sick, and let's face it, for most

people, it's not something that's going to go away in a week's 10 days. For many people,

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