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Hey guys welcome back to thickened then with me Katie Pilate no surprise there. It's not like it's going to be someone else

I always like kind of cringe when I say the intro because I'm like wait I mean obviously it's me I feel like I just don't even need to say it

It's like redundant to be like okay, here's my podcast that you clicked on so you obviously know what podcast you're listening to whatever anyway

But I will say I do wanted to say I appreciate that because that is the intro when I say my first and last name

Like fully pronounce it and everything a lot of you guys that have been following me for years and just didn't know how to say my last name

It isn't like the trickiest last name in the entire world but when you read it there's a lot of different ways you could take it so me saying it like verbalizing it being like

Balotti has helped you guys to like internalize that remember that so when people are like introducing me now no one really

It's my name like it's really nice honestly because I've always just like had to really be like it's Balotti like Pilates

Please don't mess it up. I actually fun fact when I was walking across the stage at graduation my senior year of college

They mispronounced my last name and it really haunts me to this day because I did everything in my power

To make sure that my name would be pronounced correctly like I they give you these cards at least in college

And you have to you know spell out your name phonetically so for Katie for example it was like K-A-T-E-E and then for Balotti

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