Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Fingers crossed podcast.

So excited to have you with us on this fine Tuesday or whatever day of the week you're listening to this.

Actually, let us know if you usually listen to it the day it comes out every Tuesday

or if you listen to another day, you know?

I'm always curious.

Thanks for starting your sunrise day with us.

We appreciate you.

Yeah, bright and early.

I definitely think this week is a different note, I would say.

There's a different tone in the U.S. after inauguration this past week,

and things are much more bright. I feel like our last couple of episodes have been like a little

bit downtrodden, not the episodes as themselves, but at least me, because things have been

just wild, but I genuinely felt so much better. I mean, obviously not everything is fixed, and there's

still a lot of problems to be worked on. But there's hope. There's like, we had hope for the first time.

And I mean, that inauguration ceremony was so special. And I was having, I'll get into this later

with my lemons, but I was having, I've been having a pretty rough week, um, just emotionally and

like with my mental health. It's been a little, a little on the tough side. And, uh, Christy and I were

FaceTiming yesterday, um, attempting to like plan stuff out and work on the podcast, but it ended

just being that I was like, just crying and losing my shit. And Christy was, uh, talking through it

with me. Um, which was really nice. And yes, comfort.

And she was telling me, she was like, yeah, you know, I was having a rough day the other day. And then I just

reread Amanda Gorman's poem. And it honestly helped kind of pull me out of a slump. So you should try that.

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