Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hello, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is wonderful. Why

do I just sound so low energy? Should we take it again? I'm feeling very psyched out of my

mind right now actually. Really, guys. I just, with the past few episodes, we've been able to record

when our sun wasn't sleeping. Oh, that's why I forgot why I was low energy. And then you said that

and I was like, oh yeah. And I'm just acutely aware of our proximity to him right now. No, it's

great. Being a parent is great. And we live our son very much. It's very much an energy-sive kind of.

It's just like a big pot that we pour the energy into. I'm just speaking to my muted tones.

Yes, exactly. But I am psyched. Is there a way that we can get that energy across without yelling?

Because that's sort of been my go-to move of being a podcaster for the last decade.

That's true. You do a lot of yelling. You do some clapping. I've noticed.

I do a lot of clapping. So we could do like, is there a equivalent of an emoji?

I guess that is how poets do it. Now we could punch the microphone. That could be fun. So we

could tell like a funny joke and be like, uh-huh. Whoope there it is. I didn't punch it very hard.

Actually, that's the hardest I can punch. Which I'm sure our listeners are happy about because

otherwise it would have sounded bad. Hey, Griffin, guess what? What's that? It's Valentine's Day.

It is V-Day. And we're all very excited about the love and the candy and the maybe kissing today.

Who knows? Yeah, I mean, really every other day. You can still kiss, but you know, think twice.

I just think twice. Yeah, you don't know what's in there.

In the mouth? Yeah, the mouth is a little secret cave, isn't it?

A little cave of secrets. What's in there? A genie's lamp? Maybe. I don't want to kiss that.

Get that weird metal taste in my mouth. Who knows where that's been?

Before we started recording. I told Griffin, hey, let's tighten up the intro a little bit.

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