And the rendered distance starts here. Good morning, Joel.

Good morning, Johnny, and to all of our Canadian and US members and listeners out there.

Happy Canada Day, belated that was July 1st. And happy 4th of July. That's today.

It is the 4th of July. It's very, very strange. I mean, for a start that it's the 4th of July

already, gosh, whereas the year gone. But as a special present to everybody, not just because it's

a national holiday in North America, but also because it is our 200th episode, not our 200th

episode of the rendered distance, but the 200th episode of the spawn chunks at least.

We are releasing the full length episode of the show that normally gets posted to our

Patreon feed, which includes a little pre-show and post-show chat from me and Joel. I'll kind of,

you know, say that mainly in the in the main show, just in case anybody else ends up skipping

ahead. But yeah, we decided that I think we did this for episode 100 as well. And it seemed

like a cool thing to loop everybody into the kind of pre and post-show chats that Joel and I have.

Give you a little behind the scenes about what it's like to be a patron of the show. And probably

make everybody hungry because most of what we do in these is discuss food. And today is no exception.

I made an absolutely dynamite source for some linguine meatballs this week. And I just wanted to

share that with you because you are a food driven human as anybody knows who follows you on

Instagram. I don't normally like the the source for meatballs or spaghetti,

bolognese or whatever it is. For me, I usually end up buying it in a jar in the supermarket because

it's been pre-made for me. They've done all the funky stuff they need to do with the tomatoes.

And my previous attempts at making a sauce like that from scratch have always ended up to

watery or not flavorful enough. So this time around, I came back with all of the stuff for the

meatballs. I came back with the linguine and the meatballs were something that I was already

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