Hello and welcome back to Middleground.

I am Joe, and this week we have Matt special guesting.

Is that the phrasing, special guesting?

Probably not.

I think it's definitely special guesting my butt off over here.

Matt and I had a vacation this week in Florida.

And so Caroline and I didn't get an opportunity to record.

And she offered to take it on.

And I said, you know what?

Caroline, you've done a lot of solo episodes this season.

I got you.

I'm going to have Matt on.

We're going to chat about boy things.

Oh, okay.

I didn't know what we were talking about.

To be totally honest, I was asked to special guest 20 minutes ago. Well, I didn't think that I had to tell you because I felt like with the topic I selected that I didn't know about. Yeah, I thought it would be better if you were not prepared. Got it. Okay. I can see where that comes from. I want your genuine reaction. I want to really, I want the people to really know what does

what happens in a man's brain. Oh my goodness. I'm not sure I'm qualified for this. I mean,

I'm a man, but like, I don't think I speak for all men. Right. I mean, yes. We can do some

disclaimers, but it'll be fun. I don't think I'm good at speaking for men in general, but I guess you'll find out what I think. Yeah. Probably.

What's your grounding moment for this week? Grounding moment. crap. I forgot you did this too. Ah, grounding moment. Grounding moment.

This is a good time to point out to the people

again that Matt, in fact, has still never listened to an episode of the podcast, even ones that he's on.

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