This week is the fifth Wednesday of the month, which is usually a week off for me, but I had done something back in October where I went to the Berkshires for Josh Hallmark's studio opening, and in that I managed a panel and I say managed because when you hear the

personalities you'll know that there was some management needed it was Amanda from

Wine and Crime Justin from Jen Wine, Nina from already gone, Robin from the trail

went cold, and of course Josh Hallmark from True Crime BS and Unsafe Spaces.

I ran the panel to a little bit of a behind the scenes look at

podcasting and what these podcasters have experienced over the years of

podcasting. It was fun. It was funny. It was some serious stuff in there. of to drop that in the middle of it, so I thought I'd save it for when I had a week off.

And this is that week.

Next week I'll be back with a regular episode, but before we get to the live show,

I do have to do the January Patreon birthday shout outouts that we have to rewind to October for a

birthday that I missed I want to say a very happy very belated birthday to

Doug and now for the January birthdays I want to say a very happy birthday to Jennifer,

Lindsay, Gabriel, Angela, Donna, Tuesday, Linda, Anka, Heather, Vanessa, Jennifer, Katie, Carly, Allison, Ashley, Michaela, Jonathan, and

Ausa. Here's two reflecting on the memories of the past year

and looking ahead to the memories yet to be made.

I want to wish you all a very happy birthday. Okay. So we have another group coming up. We're not going to do a live show in the traditional sense. We're going to do more of a panel.

And so I want to invite up Amanda from Wine and Crime.

Robin from the Trail Went Cold.

Justin's already here from generation Y.

Nina from already gone and Josh from True Crime Bullshit and all the other stuff going on here.

I'll say about you.

All right. How many of us are?

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