Good morning girlies, it's the toast.

It's Jackson Claude and we're your host.

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We'll start your day off,y it's the toast I sound amazing

how do we start I'm dragging up I just had this thought I'm like go oh I got it no I got

no you just hit him with the welcome welcome back we have a toast welcome back to the toast

happy Monday the first episode of 2006 the first episode of season nine. Season nine, we're feeling fine. Jacks is back. The toast is back. So much to celebrate. Happy New Year. Jax, how you Dern? I'm Dern good. This is the first Monday of the new year. This is my first official day back at work.

And so it's the Mondays Monday that's ever Monday in the history of Mondays on a Monday.

It's so true, Jax. Let me say, we are thrilled to have you back. Even for people who aren't coming back from maternity leave.

Right, right. No, it's a big day for everyone. I was seeing some content about how this holiday season felt longer than other holiday seasons and why, and it's because Christmas fell on a Thursday. So then Friday is awash. Then the days leading up to New Year's are awash and the New Year's is on a Thursday. Friday's a wash. Of course we take the weekend off. Another weekend. Yeah, it was amazing. It was amazing. and I feel very excited to be back in the saddle, back to some routine. The holidays were so great, but you can't live like that forever. I could. I just want to say, so funny that you say that, actually, because I've always thought, like, you know, obviously one day I'll reach a level where I don't need to work. That's obviously in the goals for me. And I could never be that person.

I always thought, I'm like,

I always need to have something. No, I haven't worked for the last like month and I've been totally fine, extremely fulfilled in my personal life. And I just want to say I could definitely do it. Okay. Yeah, I'm learning new things about myself. So we'll work towards that. 1,000%

Now let's just kind of set the table here.

Jacks is back.

How are you feeling?

How are you doing?

How is Bebe? work towards that. 1,000%. Now, let's just kind of set the table here.

Jacks is back.

How are you feeling? How are you doing? How is Bebe? Talk us through your journey. So I'm feeling good. I think I said this on a Patreon. And I feel like in the past when I've like come back from maternity leave, it's like ratita, I'm back, bounce back. Ratata. And I feel like this time I'm putting like a lot less pressure on myself because it's like I have to go back to work.

But I'm not like out of the bubble.

I'm still feeling like very soft physically, emotionally, spiritually.

So like I'm still like newborn bubble jacks doing the toast.

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