Prelude: Let Us Introduce Ourselves

Welcome to Fetch and Contitude book book Podcast. I'm Melissa and I'm Elise. This show is about two very best friends who love books but also love talking about life occurrences. Join us for the girl talk. It'll get real, it'll get fun, it'll get interesting. Sit down, buckle up, and let us talk to you about all the things today. We would love to introduce ourselves, give you a little back information before we get into the nitty gritty. Thanks for joining us. So let's introduce ourselves and explain to the listeners who we are A little bit you want to go first? Cool? Cool, I can do that. Okay, cool cool. So my name is Alissa. I am in my mid thirties. What do you want me to say? I'm thirty four years old. I'm so proud of it. Okay. I live with my significant other, my step children are grown and out of the house, and I love to read. So my name is Elise and I am also almost in my mid thirties, Richard. I live in my house with my husband and our wonderful three year old daughter, and I also have three wonderful step children who are our adults. So I think we need to explain that too. To the people, is that while we may be in our mid thirties, our husbands are in their mid Yeah, and our husband's also Wow, I keep calling yours your husband soon, but he is I was gonna say he's your fiance. He might as well be at this point your husband. So also, can we talk about how unfair it is that there's a name for women who date younger men, but there's nothing for men. I thought there was though, cradle robbers. I mean, neither term is really great. No, but why can't we joke around and call them names? They can call women cougars? I mean I do, we both do? We just call him old? That's fine. So our our significant others had kids before us, so our children, our older kids are adults, adults. I think the youngest out of them is twenty twenty. Yeah, here's the thing. I would have been eleven and a half when he had his first child. Okay, I have you beat there, though, because when my oldest stepdaughter was born, I would have been like seven. It's a unique dynamic that we have. I should also explain that Alissa's significant other is my cousin, my biological cousin, who I am very close with Yeah, he's more like your brother. I was gonna say, I grew up more as a little sister to him, even though we are twelve years of heart in age, but as the only cousins in the area from that side of the family for a very long time, we just kind of grew together. And my aunt kind of adopted me as her younger daughter. So yeah, so it kind of worked out in the fact. I guess this kind of like gets more into how we met. Should we talk about how we met? I do love this story. So to begin with, I had someone in my life who is very controlling and had me convinced that everyone hated me. It's one of those. Positions where you never want to be in thinking that no one likes you. We're getting into the hard stuff, like real fast. That's okay, though, I'm going to make it way better real fast. Okay. Geez, So long story short. At least plays softball or play softball. At the time, my significant other, who again we just were not good for each other. We were at a tournament and at least was there and he told me I wasn't allowed to speak to her because she just had hateful things to say. About me, which is not true. At last is a wonderful ray of sunshine. Alisa is wonderful. I wouldn't seem. We need to we need to fix that a little bit. But that was like the end of it for me with that person. And then my significant other and I got together, probably a year or so later, and he told me, Hey, I know we're going on our first date. I invited my cousin, so it's not awkward. And I was like, oh, okay, which I would love to point out the fact, like how awkward. Like he was trying not to make it awkward. How awkward is it? Like, hey, by the way, I'm gonna have my cousin. I'm right, I'm gonna bring my cousin to our first date to not make it awkward. Right whatever. And I was like, oh, well, she hates me and he's like, no, she does it, and I was like, m pretty sure she does. And then we went on our first date and Alisa and I talked more than he and I talked. So in reality, it was not their first date. It was our first day. And that here we are eight years later, he and I are still together, we're engaged, and I got my Bessie built in bestie whether she wanted it or not. And to kind of like further that story. So, yes, we had our first date, but I had to have been what a few weeks later, probably, yeah, yeah, I think it was like maybe right before my birthday probably, So a few weeks later I had I had the day off for some reason, or it was the weekend or whatnot. It was the weekend, and I was gonna go up to Burlington to just kind of go to the books were weird? Well, no, I actually I was just gonna go shopping. I just wanted to get out of the house. But I personally don't have a lot of girls that are friends of mine, So I don't I don't have a lot of girlfriends same. I think we've done better in the last few. Years, though, I agree, But at that point in my life, like neither one of us had a lot of friends per se. Right, So I asked my cousin if he thought that Alyssa would like to go with me to like get to know each other a little. Bit more and be honest about his reaction, because they need to know what type of person this is. Okay, So Alyssa and I went up to Burlington. We ended up going to Barnes and Noble and we had an absolute wonderful time, so much so that we were in We're in the bargain section of Barnes and Noble, and I had found this joke book and I did not realize this. Alyssa got to witness most of this, but we were both saying jokes to each other, and yeah, there was somebody supposedly in the next aisle over and like in the bargain section you can see through the aisles. Yeah, it was a little old lady. And apparently every time we were cackle laughing, which you will all get used to if you stay around here long enough. Yeah, but we were cackle laughing and she apparently was giggling right along with us. That's so wonderful. I wish I had taken a video of it. It was so good. You would have loved every. Minute of it, I know. So we we went to Barnes and Noble. We left my cousin's house being like acquaintances, and we came back as best friends. And let me tell you, my cousin like true honest reaction when we told him that we like got along really well, he was like, lovely great, I hate it and now he just deals with it. Because Alice's significant other and him are so close and we all kind of gang up on each other. It's wonderful. Yeah. Also sometimes it's it's terrible. Go We're terrible to each other. We're our own worst Like bullies. I love bullying you. I'm sorry, but I do. So. Alyssa and I bonded initially over books, really truly, and I think we've just continued to bond over our love for books. Well, Hi, Nova, welcome to the show. The first of the dogs to enter the room. Well, I mean Sky was here with us. Sky always is with us. So I should preface too that we are recording in my house and I have three dogs who may or may not be joining us from time to time. They also love girl talk and they all, yes, well they are part of the girl gang. So I have three dogs, Chloe, Nova, and Sky. And Sky has been in here since the beginning. But she's being really good, and she is the youngest. She is a little puppy. She's not a little well. She's tall tall, yeah, she's tall tall now. And Nova just really likes to snuggle Chloe might come in from time to time, but she is the old girl, and if my significant other is in the living room, she'll probably be in there with him because she is daddy's girl. So just the other thing is Chloe. Chloe. Chloe is Nova's mom. Yes, so so that's just how we ended up with Nova. So we also might heir, my three year old daughter come in at certain points until we potentially find a better place to record. She is lovely, she is loud. That's my that's my girl, right, she is wild, she is very fairal but we love it. I love it. So yeah, we might get interrupted a lot by dogs, husbands, by child like we have a pretty uh even the big children, that's fair. I mean, are we talking about our husbands at this point, like and men children? Oh? Oh, like my children specifically, even the husbands. Yes, they are big children, they are, they definitely are. So I guess that's kind of who we are. I guess I would really like to explain like our whole dynamic of fetch and catitude and what that might mean. Yeah, that's probably a good idea because I'm sure like to some people, fetching catitude is not like something people would think about when they think books. It's much more like an animal podcast, or that's what I'm sure some people are going to think. But I want to preface that. This is not an animal podcast. Yeah no, this is not that this podcast is not for young listeners. We have no filter. There will be lots of conversations about things that are not appropriate for a little years. And to be completely fair, a good majority of the books that we now read are adult themes. Yeah, I mean some of them are not. I'm reading a young adult right now about Christmas. Your face is at all? Yeah? Okay, So let's get into like what Fetch and Catatune means to us, because much more of like why I'm giving a face is going to make sense. So Fetch is Alyssa, that's me because we have an on running joke that our relationship is much more like a Golden Retriever personality and a black cat personality. I am the golden by far, clearly. And the more that you listen to us, the more I think it will become apparent. I wish you could see her face. That would explain everything you need to know. And eventually, I mean, we just have this conversation today that eventually we might do like a incentive for like subscribers or followers that support us a little bit more to get some inside like video footage or anything like that of us actually recording, or I mean doesn't even have to be recording. I think we're going to set up like social media's like Instagram and tiktoks and stuff like that, So we're going to do fun things other than our podcast. But people are going to understand a little bit more the further we get into this how very different we are. But we are almost like the perfect balance of different, Like we're kind of like a ying and yang type of situation. But I did not think that I was. I thought I was the golden retriever girl. You even pointed out in pictures the other day. You're like, yeah, I guess I am a black cat. I was in denial. I am more sparkles, I am more happy, go lucky. I enjoy making people happy. Alisa is very much in her I like making people happy, but I'm taking care of my own situations first, era and that we love that for her. Yeah, I mean a good amount of my life before this was taking care of others and trying to please others, and I finally have just gotten to the point of my life where I'm like, nope, I'm all in for me and that's allowed. But I also like darker themes per se, like I prefer to wear black. I prefer like I'm not a girly girl. I am not a girl's girl. I am very much a tomboy. It's just how I was raised. I actually really treasure that, but at the same time it is definitely molded my personality and the fact that I am just maybe a little bit grumpier in personality style. I guess. Yeah. So funny story. They surprised me for my birthday not too long ago, and when I at least called to say, hey, when you think you're gonna be here because they were having a surprise party for me, and of course I didn't know. I hung up the phone and looked at our other friend and was like, she was too nice. Something's wrong, which, God forbid, I'm too goshed are nice? Just like, what does that even mean? I guess, like, because you you call me and you are like, Hey, this is what I'm doing, be here or don't. That's very much your attitude. That's fair. That's right. Are you coming? I think I'm gonna start dinner a sume. Oh you'll be here, okay, I'll start it in about an hour. Oh okay, are you sick? No? I was just trying really hard for your acts, and I appreciate that you better I do. Okay, I mean, I guess this segues right into books. Let's talk about books, all right. That's cool me, so describe to the people what do you like? I mean, our top five books for the year twenty twenty five are listed on our website, which I will list in our show notes. But explain to the people your favorite genres or styles of books. I love all genres except for fantasy. Fantasy makes me want to poke my eyeballs out. I don't care. The only the only fantasy I like is Lord of the Rings. Make it make sense? I don't know. I don't think we have to for that. Lord of the Rings is pretty good. Yeah. The other thing is I love fluffy, easy romantic books. I love them. I also love murder books. Again, make it make sense. As long as I don't have to act like I'm in a world with things that are not real, I'm totally. For it your turn great. So that being said, with the Golden Retriever personality liking the fluff as the black Cat, I actually am super into dark romance. I really like the abstract and things that people would maybe look at and be like no, thank you, like that does not sound appealing, and I'm like, give it to me more like see, I can do. It every once in a while, like Haunting Adeline loved it, but. I don't want it every time right Whereas like, I think the last five books that I read were all either monster romances or I read Praise by Sarah Kate. I like that one, and my whole series is good. One of my favorite books that I actually that it was a series, It was a two book zoology. It was Once Your Mind and Now Your Mine. Yep. It is a stalker romance. So I'm very much into dark, dark romances. For comparison, the book that I'm reading right now is Merry Christmas, You Feel the Animal by Megan Quinn. That is not dark, that is fluff and it's greatest. And I am currently reading Under Your Scars. So definitely different dynamics here, which is kind of nice for I think the podcast in general or just talking about books. It's actually really great to have someone else who can share their book interest that is completely different than what you're reading, or at least for me, it is. No, I agree with that. The other thing is I feel like we should mention that eventually we would like to start reading the same book like maybe once a month or once a quarter and sharing our thoughts on it, because they will very much be differing because of how we read and what we enjoy reading. Right, And I mean we can also turn that into a like a book club of sorts, where like, I would love to hear back from everybody that wants to participate, absolutely, because I think that would be super fun. Great. Yeah, but we should pick something that most people would like. Well. See, here's the thing is, right before Christmas, we had been floating around the idea of a podcast and what we would want to talk about, and I was like, hey, send me your list of books so I can look at them and see if we have any matching ones. That way, we can pick some that would make sense for us to both read and then talk about. And she thought that I was going to buy them or something, and I was like, girl, I just want to know. What you have for books. I mean, it would have been really nice though, if you had bought them. I'm just saying. I'm just saying, that would have been a mighty fine Christmas present. That's why I wanted to go to Barnes and Noble today. Girl, it is after Christmas. I have zero money in store is fifty off. Of everything to so you guys know, the weekend after Christmas or the three days after Christmas always fifty percent off or huge deals at Barnes and Noble. I was gonna say, I think we should, like we're gonna have to give our listeners like an update because we do follow like we are pretty much stalking Barnes and Noble website. We are pretty much stocking uh books a million and thrift books like we. Do also want to start taking adventures to bookstores. Yeah, throughout we've talked about. Massachusetts a few times. There's a few in main we could go to, like surrounding area. I also would love eventually to travel to Dayton, Ohio to that like twenty thousand square foot building. I would love that like a dollar fifty. Oh, that would be so bad. We would have to drive because there was no way there's no way we could get our books back home. We should take the train ship them back. They could take the train. You get to you get two checked bags and a carry. On, so fold up, we'll just bring We'll just bring one bag as our clothes, and the two checked bags each could just be full of books. That's yeah. So we live in the northeast. We live in a very rural state. We don't have a lot of readily accessible stores. Our closest like good bookstore, I mean there's one in town, but our closest, like good blood store, is an hour twenty away or more from here. Is there not one over the border? M m? I feel like there's at least one. I mean, we did go to that one with the girls for her birthday, but it wasn't horrible, but it was small. It was small. I love small bookstores, but I just get really frustrated when there are one or two genres and then five or six books of different genres, and that seemed very much what that bookstore was. Yeah, I mean I would kind of have to agree, Like I did find how many books did I buyther? I think about like three, but one was for my daughter, So yeah, no, no, disrespect towards small bookstores at all. I love small bookstores. Yeah, and I mean it has been like a life goal for us to open up like a larger bookstore with like kind of like how Barnes and Noble sets theirs up where most of them have like Starbucks in it, right, I would love to do that kind of on a smaller scale. Oh same, And we've been joking about it. That's our retirement plan. But we're gonna move to like the beach. We're gonna go to the seaside, and that is where we're gonna do it because we would also like to go and stick our toes in the sand. Yes, being at the beach is my favorite thing. I would just like to say I stayed alcohol free this whole time. I had my once energy drink and now I'm drinking a Seltzer, not alcohol. Seltzer release is definitely more of the laid back doesn't drink as much. I mean I don't drink a lot, but I used to drink a lot more. I know, I am very much a casual drinker. We're very much in our era of we're here to enjoy life and if that means having a few drinks. That's great, and if it means not, that's also super great. We both have experienced things in our lifetime that help us understand our limits and knowing those and being aware that we could be potentially hitting those is a huge thing. And again, I will post like our websites where to find us. Eventually, if we get down the road and decide to share, we might share our good reads. Yeah right now, I feel like you guys need to understand before you can see that. Yeah, we don't want to like scare you away. Well we might do that in this episode anyways, but that's okay. I don't know. This whole project for us was more of a like, hey, we're together every week anyways. We are usually reading together or we're just chatting about reading. I mean, it's I guess, our hobby. We really like to read, and we really like to share with each other what we're reading, what we'd like to read. We also like to give suggestions to each other, even though it might scar some of us. Yeah, yeah, you're welcome. I feel like that's more at your speed. Bro, Hey, you also have trauma from that book tooths? Yeah, I mean, and I think in future episodes we definitely will talk about like some of our favorite books and why they were a favorite books, or we might post them on TikTok like I know there are a lot of people that do that already, but you know, I always love seeing the suggestions because, oh that. Helps me add to my TVR, which is not like reading. We talked about today is we need to make a game or something because I need to stop buying books and read the books on my TVR. Yeah, I don't know how many books I actually have. I think currently at this point, I have five books currently going. I'm fairly certain. Let me check my good rates. Oh, I don't update good Reads until i've after I've read. I know you're terrible. Well, I have a writing list on my phone of the books that I've finished reading. So oh, I guess I'm only reading three only Oh no, because I finished a couple times. So I have one going on Audible right now, I have one on Kindle and I have one physical copy. I have two physicals, one on Kindle, one on Cobo, one on Nook, and two on Audible. Let me also explain that this woman one doesn't have a life. I do. I just don't sleep she's instomniac. So Alyssa does not sleep a lot. She doesn't like no offense. You like you don't have young kids like I too. We have different reading speeds. Alissa could read like three books in a week, whereas I would be like one book in a month. And that's allowed. Everyone reads the different. Speeds, oh for sure. Yeah, and that's what I'm like. I guess maybe our book club should maybe be like every quarter, yeah, because there's like, definitely people read at different. Speeds and that's fine. I would never say no, you have to read it as fast as I'm. Reading it ever, well good, because it would never happen. So I don't know. Lately I have not been fast, that's what she said. Jesus, you're welcome for that. Also, I guess maybe more into our personalities too related to books. I am a huge Harry Potter nerd. I will be controversial in this. I don't dislike Harry Potter. She does, No, I don't. I don't just like Harry Potter. I thought that the series could be over much sooner than it was. I also did not finish reading the last book. Boo, I have it right there, you can have it I have it at home my significant other and I have watched all the movies Boom. I also don't enjoy them. Ugh. I enjoyed the first four books, and then I just got to the point where I was like, Okay, it doesn't again this really like, it doesn't really. Help that you don't like fantasy either, because I feel like that's more on the line of the fantasy. See, I don't hate fantasy. I don't hate it. It is not always the genre I would prefer. I will read it. I might wind the whole time I'm reading it, but I will read it. When don't you do? Oh you don't A little bit, No, just a little bit. And that's perfectly fine, though, because there is I'm sure, like I can't think of any particular genre that I absolutely hate. I don't hate it. I just love it well. And I think for you, like it would have to be a very specific book in fantasy in order for you to read it and enjoy it. Yeah. Probably, I'll admit that that's probably true. Yeah, I mean, and that just happens sometimes. Like I'm really trying to think of one that mystery for me is kind of the same way. See, I love mystery. Oh, I don't dislike mystery. See this is yeah, this is exactly what I'm talking about. Like, I don't dislike mystery. I'm just like like the book Strange Pictures and Strange Buildings. Those I read in like a day because I was so enthralled by them. Right, But if you put me in front of just a regular old like I'm just trying to think of one off the top of my head. You are not a biography person. I know, I know, although I did read some autobiographies that Jenna Damson one is so good. I know, I know I need to, but I mean, I've listened to the Britney Spears autobiography and I hate to. Say this, and this is gonna be so controversial. I had to stop listening to it because I couldn't get over. Her reading it. Well, yeah, if it was actually Britney Spears reading it. No, Britney Spears did read the one that I read, and I hated it. Oh see, I did not listen. Maybe that's why I liked mine more. Yeah. See, I love Bernie Spears. I think that her life has been atrocious to her. I could not finish her reading the book. I got maybe halfway through and just couldn't do it anymore. And her, like I said, her life has been atrocious to her, It really has, right, But also at a point you have to acknowledge that you are part of the problem. And that's for every single person right your life. Yes, I know a lot of it was into conservatorship, but you have to realize that part of your life issues are because you're the problem, not everyone as well. No one is perfect, and she has gone through a lot, but there was a lot of the time when she was reading it that it felt twisted or that she would not take any of the blame, and that really bothers me. And I think that might be why I don't like biographies in general, because it's that person perspective of the situation and it's not everyone's, and it's very controversial anyways, just in general with autobiographies, like you can read them and it can be like how you perceived that one, whereas I read the same one and I took it a totally different way. Right, So I just finished reading up while listening to Friends Lovers, and the big terrible thing that the Matthew Perry one. Oh yes, you were telling me about this, and I have. To tell you the way that he read it, he read it was phenomenal because he very much was like, yeah, this was my fault. I did this, And I think reading it without his perspective on it, like hearing him have the inflection, would have completely altered the way that I felt about the book. Right, I mean, and yeah, I think that's why I don't read as many. I have read a couple, but it's just not my thing. I would rather get lost in a story rather than get lost in someone else's perspective of the story. Right, So I guess to like finish out this episode because we're pretty far in even without my editing. In the future, we're gonna really try our best to post on a weekly basis. We are really really gonna try to do every week and get a podcast out every week. I'm not gonna promise that that's gonna happen, depending on my technological skills. Life. Unfortunately, our lives are insanely busy. Yeah, and this is just one more thing, but yeah. Committed to making this one more thing a super awesome fun thing. Yeah, I mean again, we are together every week. Usually there might be a few weeks where like Alyssa is gone or like I'm gone, but there should always be something if not, Like we have our social media, we'll probably be posting on there quite a bit. I know. One of the things that we desperately want to do is a cruise together that will be interesting, but also to keep. You updated with all the books for reading, like social media is for those that would be fun. Yeah, I was gonna say, like every time we start a new book, we're gonna have to like or like every month, I think we're gonna do like our favorite books, or we're gonna list like what books we've read, which Alyssa averages about what eighteen a month? There. Yeah, so let's see what am I This month has been incredibly so. Oh oh darn, I think I got five again this month, although I have a book that's only like sixty some odd pages that I want to read and it's in my kindle and I most definitely will probably read it by tonight. So I've only read nine this month. Oh. My biggest month this year was. Twenty and that was only nine September. Go go fly a kite. Do you want to know my biggest months last year? No? I don't because I had a huge slump in life where I just was not reading, and I just within the last two years got back into reading. I was a huge reader in high school, and I slowed down in college because I was kind of trying to focus on college. But which is loud. I mean a lot of my focus in college was alcohol, so I think that's. Most people's focus in colleges. Not not a lot, but yeah some. But I then kind of focused on my career after college, so I didn't really get a lot of reading. Did I definitely was doing audible at that time because I was doing a lot of audiobooks. I was traveling a lot, so right for work, I was traveling a lot. So I recently just got back into picking up physical copies of books because I was just not reading them. And that's allowed. Everyone goes through changes and needs to just take a break and do their own thing, for sure, and that's more than okay mm hmm. And but I do know that like we want to do a like hear Me out. Cake, Yeah, I feel like that's gonna be dangerous. I really really would like to see us do like a hear Me out Cake book Boyfriend Edition which is fine. That we might not know who's the others is Yeah, I think that. Could be scarring for some people. Girl, we're not here to not scar people like us in general scar people. We're sassy, that's just part of it. So I think in the future you'll see a lot of social media. We do have a blog section on our website, so we might end up doing like a writing every week or something like that. I don't want to put too too much on our plate because we still do have full time jobs, but I would really like to explore this option to see if it would be just a really cool hobby for us to do, or if we could potentially turn it into something more Like I'm being super ambitious right now, but I would really like that for us same. I would really love that too. I also just this is a way for us to breathe and enjoy our time and just kind of have girl time. Not that we don't love being with the boys. We don't love we don't the girly like. It's just us being able to focus on our relationship, which I think is super important. I agree like this is just our thing our significant others because they get along so well, they like to play video games together, but we usually are just sitting on the couch either chatting or we're reading. Like this is our way of doing our thing together right and not. Having that pressure of well, because we're sitting on the couch, we should be doing something else, or we could be doing this, or we should be out doing that. Like this is our focus time to be together, to do something we enjoy, to talk about things we enjoy, but have our own space. To do it right. And I'm I'm totally open to anybody giving us suggestions of what we should do. I mean we've already like thrown around like a readathon of sorts, like just getting on like having the camera on us and just be reading and chit chatting and talking to anybody who wants to join us for our readathons, like like people do like reading weekends with like their like book club or whatever. I just saw one on social media. Actually it was a a bookstore did a silent readoff kind of Oh my god, I would love that they had snacks. We do enjoy some snacks, yeah, but doing something like that, but like not having to gather in one particular place because I know people just can't travel. People don't have the means to travel, but being able to find a quiet space and join us and just maybe do some light chit chat in a chat would be super fun. I think that would be really fun. That would be great. I've been saying that for years that I want to even rent an airbnb or something and just go away. So, yeah, give us your ideas. Throw some ideas out there. We might be doing some contests. We've been thinking about doing gift boxes. Like I particularly was like, oh, well, if somebody is like definitely more the Golden Retriever, they can get your box. If somebody is much more like a black Cat, they could get my box, like and just put some of our favorite things that you also might enjoy. You just want them to have your box. That's fine, that is inappropriate. I never said this was gonna be appropriate. Our mothers might listen to this. My mother would love that. And you know, we should have my mother on for a guest appearance. I vote that, Yeah, we need to do that. But we also like that is part of the thing too, is that we also might have some guest speakers or some guests in general which we might invite. Alissa's work bestie. I think that my work bestie would also be mighty interested, but she's also very shy. That's a good thing that they don't have to see her though. I know they would just be girl talk. It would just be girl I just met at last's work bestie the other day for the first time. It was wonderful. But yeah, we have a lot of family friends whichever that also enjoy just girl talk and book talks and stuff like that. Like, we have a bunch of people that have very similar interests. So no, it might not always be about books. Sorry about your luck, but we are just here kind of chatting away, and you're just here to join us along for the red. Like we said, girl talk, it is girl talk, but it also could be guy talk. Do you know how many guys out there are gonna enjoy this too? Hopefully a lot, but I guess we'll see. I'm not opposed to guys popping in and being like hey, me either, But. Also I know that we're a lot. Speak for your dell. Yeah, pretty much. I'm definitely not a lot. I mean, granted, again, guys, we got significant other, but also you want to be friends. Hey, I get along better with guys. So that's kind of true. But also there's me, so okay, I work in a very male dominated profession. I just get along better with guys. Sometimes there are a select few women that I do get along with, but I'm very gy. It's me regretss regrets. She's got some regerts. So just join us if you would love to continue with these conversations. I know we kind of like ramble, but. All the time, that's every conversation we have is rambling. I know I like the ADHD is not great for that. Okay, so join us. In our next episode, we are going to try to I think we're gonna record on Sundays. I'm going to try and get stuff out. I don't know yet, it depends, it depends. My technological skills are not great with editing yet. I am very much a beginner, So excuse me finish that statement. I remember you bullshit, I don't remember. You're such a bullshiting liar. You can't bull a bullshitter. I hate you now, you don't I know you sounds so upset about it. So I will have a better schedule once I get things kind of up and running and set up. But at this point, we're going to try to record every Sunday or Saturday or Friday, depending. On we're whatever day we're together, which is a lot of taste. That's fair. Just please join us for whenever you can. We're going to try to get episodes out. I will let you know what our socials are. I know our email at this point is Fetch and Catitude booknook at gmail dot com. And that is all lowercase and no spaces, nothing in between. Just Fetch Inctitude booknook at gmail dot com. So you can send us some suggestions if you would like to, or just send an email saying hey, what's up. We guys talk far too much from my liking kidding, don't say that. I mean, we definitely do. So. Thank you for joining us on this episode, our episode one prelude. It was so nice to introduce ourselves. I'm sorry we didn't get to meet you in person, but we appreciate you. We hope that you join us again. As Alisa said, if you have anything to add or you want to hear anything specific from us, please let us all right, have a wonderful night, guys, have fun. Bye,