All right.

It has been a long time since we've done this.

Laszlo, and we have a guest today, but not only do we have a guest, we have a guest in studio today. I don't think that has been a long time since that happened. On this podcast, I don't know if it, if it's ever happened. Blue October? I'm trying to think. Oh, yeah, maybe, maybe. That's the only one I can think of. For people who have not listened to this before, toxic and problematic, it's a podcast that we try to do when we have someone to talk to. We like to do it once a week. We haven't done it in probably five months. It's been a long time since we've done it, but it's supposed to be a weekly podcast. And the idea is if we don't have have a guest, we'll kind of bullshit with one another. Right. But we'd like to have a guest, and now we've got a new producer and we're booking guests. And where she's booking guests. And not only she's booking guests, she's booking guests that come into the studio. So pretty amazing, huh? Katie Ches That's it That's it Right right Okay

And Katie

You came to our attention from this article that was in the New York Times that you wrote. And I saw it being shared. And I don't remember if I said something to summer or summer says it to me, but somehow it came up. She's like, well, you know, you guys talk about AI a lot.

Should we see if we could get her?

And I was like, yeah, that would be good because there's a lot of people talking about this article. And then she's like, yeah, okay, I booked her. Okay, great. And she goes, and she's coming in. I'm like, why would she be coming in? Is she going to be in tension?

She lives here.

I was like, she lives here.

So tell us a little bit about yourself and how you ended up in Kansas City.

Yeah. So I don't know how deep you want me to go. But born and raised in South Texas, Brownsville, Texas. So right there, I think the only southern, more southern point in the United States is Key West, maybe. But right there

by South Padre, and I lived like a mile from the Mexican border. So lots of crazy stories I could

regale you guys with from there. But moved up here to go to KU and then stuck around. Yeah,

got a job. And you decided to stay? I decided to stay, mainly because leaving and moving and all that felt really hard.

And I got a job afterwards and just stuck around.

Moved to Overland Park.

It felt like my first big girl move.

And then my husband is originally from Buffalo, New York, but his family moved here when he was in high school.

And I met him at KU. And so he wanted to stick around because his family moved here when he was in high school.

And I met him at KU.

And so he wanted to stick around because his family's here.

And yeah.

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