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Hey, Renee.

Are you drinking me? Yes. How's it going? Hey, Tina. How are you? This is, this is, works out perfectly because you always say, hey, how are you? And then I talk. And now I want to say,

hey, how are you? And you fill us in on how you are. Oh my gosh. I mean, that's usually how it goes. But yes, I'm great. I mean, I have no complaints. It's Friday as we're recording this. Finally, the weather has turned. And I think, I do think it's like turned for good, knock on wood. Like I hope so. Yeah, you have to knock on wood. I did. Well, I knocked on whatever.

This desk is made out of particle board.

I don't know.

But yeah, we're feeling good. How are you? I am good. I was going to say the same thing. The sun is shining. And I was reading something online. I don't know what it was. It was just kind of a funny where people said, someone was saying, well, you know you're from the Midwest.

If you open every conversation with weather. was. It was just kind of a funny where people said, someone was saying, well, you know you're from

the Midwest if you open every conversation with weather. Oh, every single one. It dictates so much

of our lives. Like, it's truly remarkable. Friend of the show, Amy and her wife came in for a Cubs game,

and they got to see rain, snow, hail, warm weather, all in one like four-day Chicago

trip. And I'm like, this is it. This is Chicago. They got humidity. Like it was like, I mean,

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