Yo! Welcome into the House of L podcast. I'm Lauren Tomes. Thank you so much for hanging

out with me on the pod. We are brought to you as always by the fine folks over at

Realios Pizza. If you would like to enjoy a nice summer night, I highly recommend

that you do it at Aurelios or ordering Aurelios or having Aurelios delivered to

your house because it's delicious. It's the sauce. So happy that we've partnered

with Aurelios. I always recommend to people that they go check out the homewood. Even

if you don't live in homewood, you need to go to the original in homewood once and ask

for your pizza out of the old oven. That is a pro tip for me to you. But wherever it is,

whether you're a new linux, if you're in Frankfurt, if you're in Mochina, if you're in Northwest

Indiana, Aurelios, if you're in the loop downtown, Aurelios Pizza is the spot, yo. Aureliospizza.com.

I ordinarily promote sports adjacent at the end of episodes. I just want to say that

podcast is really, really great. Those three guys are really important to me too. Jason

Leisure, Russ Dorsey, Tony Gill, I have tremendous affection for all three of those guys and

the product that they're putting together on House of L is exceptional. It's a lot of fun.

It drives me a little bit crazy. Tony is out of his mind, but they keep putting out great

stuff. And while I'm talking about their podcast, let me congratulate Russ Dorsey for continuing

to prove all of us right. I talk about this type of stuff a lot. Most of the time when

you end up in public facing jobs, there's a tendency to want to prove people wrong. The

idea of no one told me that I could do this. Everyone told me that I was going to be a failure

and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And yeah, they're definitely moments where I've felt

that way. And I'm not saying that you can't be petty. You can't be petty, but occasionally,

when it comes to stuff like that, but damn, it feels good to prove people right. Everyone

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