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podcast. I'm Intertian writer Jim Hill, and this is the podcast where we cover the latest

universal news, rumors, and history. And as always,

I'm joined by Eric Hersey, who's a little behind it as correspondence, as I understand it.

Well, Jim, you know, at the end of each show, we say, where can you find us? And I typically say,

well, I'm at Eric Kersey on Instagram, Twitter, and all the above. Well, it turns out that people did take me up on sending messages over an Instagram,

except for that Instagram kind of paywalls or at least hides most of the messages that you're not connected with already.

So since I didn't know these people existed, there's a button that says requests,

and it's kind of hidden.

So for some reason this week, I clicked on that button and I found messages from the first week we started recording till almost two weeks ago.

All the way the best was from 2022.

Now, granted, it wasn't from the show.

Another Eric Hersey from across the nation here just messaged me and said, hey, I'm messaging you because we have the same name.

Wow. Okay. So, yeah, well, which was, which was fun. So I have not been receiving a lot of these messages. So all those that reached out and there was a decent amount, I just reached back out to you, so I apologize.

But just to let you know that I will be checking that little button every single week now,

just to see if people have some ideas and conversation and good news, Jim, we have probably a good

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