Well, hello, I missed you. It has been what two or three weeks since I put out a public

podcast and although I missed you and I am so glad to be back, I really needed a break. I expanded my mind a little bit. I went on a road trip with my kids to the wonderful capital of Illinois, Springfield, Illinois. Got our land of Lincoln history on.

I ate something called a horseshoe.

I'm going to tell you right off the bat,

I think it's overrated.

If you are a Springfield native

or you're wondering what this thing is, it has been on diners, drive-ins, and dives, so it gives you just a little taste of what it takes to digest one of these things.

It had a layer of, I want to say,

like two pieces of bread or toast,

and then you can get any kind of meat on top of that,

like a hamburger or corn beef or I don't even know what the

hell. The waitress told me to try it with corn beef. And then on top of the bread and the meat,

they pour a cheese sauce it's not spicy like

nacho cheese but you know kind of that fake cheese or a cheese that you might

need to develop by using a rue and then they put French fries on top.

So I ordered this.

I was super psyched up to try it.

I actually got a pony shoe.

It's a smaller version of the horseshoe because, you know, I'm a dainty girl. And, um,

overrated. I did not enjoy it. It was kind of a cafeteria slop-ish. Maybe if you are a Springfield native and you think that I'm an

asshole, well tell me somewhere else that I need to go where I can find a tastier horseshoe or pony shoe because that was a lot to digest physically and emotionally.

It was just such a shame to throw those calories away. But anyhow, not only did I try a horseshoe. I toured the capital. I saw Obama's old Senate desk. Got a little weepy. I toured Lincoln's old home, pretty

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