Hi everybody, welcome back to the Be There In Five Podcast. I'm Kate Kennedy, your host.

So this was a tragic week, a heavy week, a week filled with atrocities so unimaginable

that adjectives are failing me right now to even feel like I can adequately describe

them unthinkable. And for purposes of compartmentalizing and providing an escape, I'll reserve my thoughts

for the end. So if you're looking to be distracted, would it reserve that discussion for the end?

I think sometimes this podcast is here to entertain and sometimes to make you think, but sometimes

the best way I can serve an audience is to entertain and make you not think. And I want to be clear,

it's not that I don't have thoughts or I don't care. I cannot emphasize enough. I do care. And I am

utterly consumed off the air. And I think I'm forever wrestling with the disconnect between what I'm

thinking on a, you know, what I'm thinking about on a particular week versus what I'm equipped to

talk about versus what I think you guys need and want to hear. And I gather from talking to many

of you this week over DMs and stuff, a lot of you are wanting an escape. Last time, it's not the

same situation, but, you know, there was kind of a feeling of incredible overwhelm in terms of

like how the hell do we like move forward? What's going on? What's the right thing to say or do

new things were happening every day? It was early on when COVID-19 was happening when we were in

lockdown. And feeling the same sort of like urgency of like I want to do something but having no

idea what in that moment was the best thing to do. And in a move that has, you know,

it's hard to say, both profoundly hurt and helped my career. I decided to do like a tight 60-minute

set, I believe, on just dipping sauces. It was called the AOE spirit. It was weird. You know,

I would say it's lightning in a bottle, but I guess it's more like ranch in a bottle. It was

very random. I was very stressed. Here's a clip from it for reference.

Potion of the gods. That is a super grippy watery white queso. My god, I've really had a time in

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