Hey guys, welcome to snark bait.

I am your host, Sophie Ross, joined by our other host, Christy.

Hi, guys.

How's it going?

I am so excited to be doing this with you.

What a long time coming.

I know.

So this is our first episode.

Please bear with us if we have any, you know, road bumps or anything. Anything that.

I'm so awkward. It's been a while since I've intro to podcast. So I'm so sorry. But let's get into why we are

doing this, why we started this. Christy, how did you get into being extremely online and becoming

familiar with some of these niche internet personalities? I have to shout you out because I have

another podcast called X knows all. And I've had you on a lot over the last couple of months.

And every time I had you on, and we were talking, whether it be like Lauren Speer or

just pop culture moments in general, the downloads was always skyrocket. And I feel not only was it

because of like you have great star power and online presence, but I feel like also the topics,

the topics that we talked about were always so, it had such a niche kind of following on the internet.

And I feel like anytime you and I are texting, we're talking about such niche corners of the internet that oftentimes, like, people magazine or like TMZ aren't necessarily reporting on.

It's like these subreddit snark pages that were just like randomly

texting each other. And every time I had you on, people were like, we love when you have Sophie on,

you guys should do a show. And like you and I kind of had this come to Jesus moment at one point.

And we were thinking, should we actually like do this? And that's when it kind of came on where we're like, we need to

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