Hey, folks, this Alex. I'm of course here with Katie. Hey, Katie. Hey. Hey. And I don't even know if we

necessarily need to do this. But here's the thing. Let's do it. No, no, no. It's good. It's good. It's good.

Yeah. This is the only episode of the show, like, taped prior to the 2024 election and releasing after the 2024 election.

So the main things we want to say are that we love each and every one of you.

Yes.

And also that the tone of our voices and vibe will not be reflective of anything that happened in the news.

Yeah, I think we're both feeling a lot of care and concern right now.

And we, I know for me, at least, I've been, it's not that I've been trying to bury my head in the sand or anything, but I do think it is important to, you know,

give yourself a mental break if you can, right? Like, if you, you, if that is afforded to you. And so that's, so I really

hope that this does help. And, but yeah, I mean, I also just really want people to know that we

are thinking about everyone and we really do, really do care about y'all.

Yeah, same here.

And worldwide.

And like you said, I do feel like this podcast tends to be a break from this thing.

So I hope this is.

And this episode, it's a listener suggested topic of OK, as you'll hear.

The like one thing to mention is that one of the takeaways is about Martin Van Buren and the 1840 presidential election. It truly has nothing to do with this one at all. But as we'll say

on the show, we mention a president and we don't know how the election went. So that's the

closest this comes to anything,

Newsy, is a guy from nearly 200 years ago. I'm actually going to take a political stance

against Martin Van Buren. He sucked. Good. He stinks. So that's what's going on. And I also

posted about this on Discord too.

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