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listening and supporting us. We'm here with Joe Ragazo. How's it going? Joe. It's going great. Getting ready for this event we got coming up. I guess when you hear this, it will already be happening. That's true. It will be halfway through depending on when it comes. But when is the actual 25th anniversary of TPM?

Because that's the event that Joe Riff is referring to, the 25th anniversary of our website's founding.

So the actual anniversary is the 13th.

So it's actually next week.

But yeah, we're having our celebration live show Thursday, the 6 and the party Friday the 7th.

So we had to do it a week ahead of time.

Okay.

So it's a little bit premature, but we're doing it anyway.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And so we're also joined here today by John Light, our executive editor. Thanks for coming, John.

Yeah. Thank you for having me. It's great to be here. Long time, first time. It's weird because

I've listened to each of the episodes of this, and I always listen to you guys on 1.5 speed.

And so I was like thinking, oh, you're one of those. thinking, I got to be really sharp and talk at 1.5 speed. Like I'm not thinking that literally, but in my head, it's like, they talk pretty fast. I've got to be on it, but this is much more relaxed than I expected and that's good. I'm happy about that. That's good. Well, we can try to speed up our speech if that's your use. No, no, please that one. Partfully fast, yeah.

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