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Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess,

Trine Hermosta, Sarah Nicole, and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed

in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. So get ready to get inspired,

get candid, get real because we are all in this digital space together.

As you know, this podcast is mostly lady crap as our one reviewer told us as he expected

there to be stuff about papayas and was deeply disappointed by all the lady crap.

But let's be real. We don't often have men on the show, but I'm very excited to bring somebody

on today who kind of crossed over into a world that so many of us felt ourselves doing,

but feeling a little bit old for it. As a millennial going into the realm of the Gen Z's

TikTok, if you don't follow this person, you certainly know who he is and you'll recognize him

or his voice the second you hear him. Today we have on who you might know as rod,

simply rod on Instagram. He's just me dot rod and he basically brings us alongside us the millennial

experience anxiety, work, life, all of that jazz in a very relatable way. I almost find him like

a positive negativity. There's all stuff that we're going through and there's a way to kind of

find joy or hilarity in that mix of it. I'm very excited to bring him on. He's got a lot of stuff

going on in his life. A lot more that's coming down the pipeline. We're going to talk all about that

today. Please welcome rod rod. Welcome to the pod. Most people we are just talking about this

before we start recording. They know who you are. Like you're just a very you've become a very

recognizable face, especially within the pandemic. But also I just looked it up. You really only

came onto the scene during the pandemic. Talk to me about who you are and how the heck you got into

this. I started, I mean, I was a classic millennial. I loved I loved divine. Do you remember

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