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You find yourself listening to yet another of our resuscitated episodes.
And usually, usually we cut the ads out of these.
The sponsor messages.
Yeah, because we're not making any money on these.
No one is.
But this time, I don't know, the ads tell us about something about where we were, at least where I was in my life at the time we recorded them.
And so we're just.
We're going to leave them in for.
The historical record for Ian reliving and reprocessing his trauma.
If Stamps.com and Blue Apron, if those companies exist, I.
I'm actually not sure if they still exist.
I don't know.
You're welcome to send us money directly.
But please don't send us any meal kits.
Hey, Christina, what can we help you with?
Oh, well, the other day I was taking a study break, and I was just sitting watching some kind of TV show.
I don't even remember what it was.
And the characters happened to be looking through an old baby book and looking through pictures of, presumably, the characters when they were little.