All right, quick, quick, say a joke before the podcast thing.

Hey, you ever, you ever been so double booked that you end up getting, uh, getting a

return to the library? Okay.

You ever, you want to hear the sound of me?

You want to hear the sound of my schedule right now and how I'm, how I'm dealing with it?

Ah.

Ha ha ha ha ha. how I'm dealing with it.

Welcome to The Crunch. It is your boy, Ethan.

And I'm Patrick. And, oh, boy, have we got a show for is your boy, Ethan. And I'm Patrick.

And oh boy, have we got a show for you?

Boom, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.

I was wondering why other podcasters, when they say stuff like, our podcast isn't planned at all, that's like an appeal.

That's like a selling point for people.

But for us, it just

isn't. It's a reality of our lives. We don't, we don't get paid enough to plan for this podcast.

Um, okay. So I, I have a quick update from last week. Is it L.A.A. Sorry. No, it's not. It's not L.Ezar. Okay. I'm going to ask that every time. That man certainly does not listen to this podcast. Not anymore. The girl in Akron who needed friends. I got an email with the subject line entitled, I need Catholic friends too. Hi, I'm the most recent episode, someone in Akron writing in need of Catholic friends. I'm 23. I'm a 23 year old lady living in Akron with zero Catholic friends that take their faith seriously. I need friendship. So if you were the one that emailed me about needing Catholic friends in Akron, I will send this person an email asking if I can give you their email and then. Y'all can be friends. Look at this. You guys can be friends. What's the point of paying? Hopefully you guys like each other. That'd be awkward. What's the point of paying for a service when you could listen to this free podcast? Yeah. Or you could pay for this podcast. You could. Patreon.com slash the crunch. It's great. I love that.

Who would have thought we had such a wide listener base in Akron, Ohio? I know. I know.

Who also decided to name it Akron? I don't know. It sounds like Akron, which is, do you really want

that? What is Akron? It's like, like, you smell, like, you remember how donkey was when they were going up to the

volcano and he smelled that, he was like, Shrek, ooh, and Shrek was like, it's brimstone.

Like, that's, that's, it was an ac accurate smell that donkey was probably smelling like the

smell of um i don't know i don't really know how to scribe it without like telling you specific

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