Ep. 121: Tea Attendant

[00:00:04] Welcome to Ink Drinkers, a literary tea party podcast where we discuss books and drink tea.

[00:00:23] Hello.

[00:00:30] Hello.

[00:00:31] We are here at my parents' house for an episode recording.

[00:00:40] I have not slept.

[00:00:43] We are here because our driveway is currently being demolished.

[00:00:47] Hopefully by mid next week it's just so beautiful that all I want to do is stare at our driveway.

[00:00:54] Marisa is so delirious right now.

[00:00:57] This is entertaining to me and actually I think I would like for you to just keep going on for the whole episode and that's what this will be.

[00:01:06] No books, no nothing.

[00:01:07] We have to talk about books.

[00:01:09] Oh, okay.

[00:01:10] Yeah.

[00:01:11] Sorry, I forgot.

[00:01:12] I don't think anyone's going to want to listen to my irrational banter.

[00:01:17] Probably not, but I do.

[00:01:20] I downloaded this app called Sweat and it's like a workout app.

[00:01:26] What?

[00:01:27] I know.

[00:01:28] I'm glad it's not something else.

[00:01:29] I don't know what else that would be.

[00:01:31] Maybe like a hot yoga or like a sauna, something or other.

[00:01:41] A sauna app?

[00:01:42] Yeah.

[00:01:43] You stand in your...

[00:01:45] My dad has an app for his sauna.

[00:01:48] Okay, cool.

[00:01:49] He can change the colors of the lights and stuff or something.

[00:01:52] I don't know.

[00:01:53] Hmm.

[00:01:54] Anyway.

[00:01:55] That makes sense.

[00:01:57] That does make sense.

[00:01:58] This particular app is for working out though.

[00:02:01] What kind of workout?

[00:02:03] So you can either use it at the gym or at home but like I don't belong to a gym so I said home.

[00:02:09] And I know, I know.

[00:02:11] And then you tell it what kind of equipment you have and then it'll recommend workouts.

[00:02:17] And then it just shows you do a squat and then if you need help on how to do a squat then

[00:02:23] it has it on the screen for you but if you don't need help then you just do the number

[00:02:26] of squats and then when you're done you just tap next and it goes to the next exercise.

[00:02:30] I like this.

[00:02:31] Do you like it?

[00:02:32] No, I really liked it.

[00:02:34] How much is it for our viewers?

[00:02:36] It's our listeners.

[00:02:39] Our viewers.

[00:02:40] And I didn't even think anything of it.

[00:02:44] I was like, yeah.

[00:02:45] Sorry we're apparently both pretty delirious.

[00:02:50] Yeah so it's $20 a month if you pay monthly or it's $120 if you pay annually which

[00:02:56] cuts that in half.

[00:02:58] Sure.

[00:02:59] But they run specials so like I'm doing a seven day free trial right now but there's

[00:03:03] an option in there for me to get like three months for $0.99 each.

[00:03:07] Hmm.

[00:03:08] So but anyway and then it'll time it for you so if it's a timed exercise it like counts

[00:03:12] down for you and then it'll just beep at you when it's time to stop.

[00:03:15] It was really nice.

[00:03:16] I loved it because I could listen to my audiobook while I was working out.

[00:03:19] Yeah.

[00:03:20] Which you can't do if you're doing like a workout on the TV or something like

[00:03:24] that or obviously in a gym with an instructor.

[00:03:28] Right.

[00:03:30] But when I all of that was just to say that I just did basic exercises.

[00:03:35] I did like squats, crunches, push-ups, reverse lunges and maybe like one or two

[00:03:41] other things and I'm so sore.

[00:03:44] Like very, very sore.

[00:03:46] That's the indication that things are quickly falling apart.

[00:03:55] We are now a fitness podcast.

[00:03:59] I'm going to actually talk you through your next workout.

[00:04:02] So I need to pull out a discount code for what is.

[00:04:06] Sorry.

[00:04:07] Swipe up.

[00:04:08] Anyway, I just snored it.

[00:04:12] It's a cool app.

[00:04:14] Someone from the office recommended not the office, the TV show, my office

[00:04:17] that I work at recommended it to me.

[00:04:20] Wow.

[00:04:21] That would be pretty.

[00:04:22] Well it could be.

[00:04:23] So it's been around.

[00:04:24] It could be like one of the actors from the office that I follow on Instagram

[00:04:29] or something.

[00:04:30] It could.

[00:04:31] That's why I had to clarify.

[00:04:32] Thank you.

[00:04:33] I don't think I follow anyone from the office on Instagram, but you didn't know

[00:04:37] that.

[00:04:38] I follow the office bloopers.

[00:04:40] Oh, that's fun.

[00:04:42] It is.

[00:04:43] It just brings a little joy into my scroll.

[00:04:45] Your scroll.

[00:04:47] All right.

[00:04:48] We're trademarking that.

[00:04:50] Okay.

[00:04:52] Should we talk about books?

[00:04:54] Books.

[00:04:55] Okay.

[00:04:56] Yeah, I think so.

[00:04:57] I think people are tired of us.

[00:04:58] I'm tired of myself.

[00:04:59] So I'm just tired.

[00:05:00] I'm tired of you.

[00:05:03] Right.

[00:05:04] So my book, if you'll just give me a moment to pull it up here on Goodreads

[00:05:10] so I can remember the author's name.

[00:05:13] I do remember the title.

[00:05:15] It's called You with a View.

[00:05:17] Oh, I think the author is Jessica Joyce, but hang on.

[00:05:20] I'm coming up.

[00:05:21] Yes, Jessica Joyce.

[00:05:22] I did remember it.

[00:05:23] Okay.

[00:05:24] I will say from the beginning, A, please don't tag the author in this

[00:05:30] Instagram post because I know I liked the book, but I'm not going to gush about

[00:05:35] it.

[00:05:36] What's the rating?

[00:05:37] I rated it three stars.

[00:05:38] Okay.

[00:05:39] I expected to like it a lot more and Carrie recommended it to me.

[00:05:43] So I was like, oh, this is going to be a winner.

[00:05:45] Yeah.

[00:05:46] I'm sorry, Carrie.

[00:05:47] Sometimes we just have different tastes.

[00:05:49] I think it was just bad timing maybe.

[00:05:51] And I just forced my way through it because I wanted to finish something.

[00:05:55] Sure.

[00:05:56] But anyway, let me tell you about it.

[00:05:58] So Noelle's grandmother passed away recently and she's taken it really hard.

[00:06:05] They were very close.

[00:06:07] They had a special connection.

[00:06:08] That part of the book I like really related to and it like really made me miss my

[00:06:12] grandmother, which was hard but also, you know, like it's nice to reminisce.

[00:06:19] So her grandmother recently passed away and she's going through some of her

[00:06:23] grandmother's old things and she finds these old letters from a man named Paul.

[00:06:28] And that's not her grandfather.

[00:06:30] But this is from a long time ago, like way before her grandfather was in the

[00:06:36] picture and she's like, who is this man?

[00:06:38] I thought my grandmother and I told each other everything and I've never heard

[00:06:43] of this man before.

[00:06:44] What is going on?

[00:06:45] So she has a photo of him.

[00:06:47] So instead of like, you know, asking her parents what's going on because she

[00:06:53] figures it would be too hard for her dad to discuss and he probably has never

[00:06:57] heard of Paul and would be like, oh my God, but my father, you know, whatever.

[00:07:01] Anyway, so she decides she's going to post the photo on Tiktok with a

[00:07:06] little bit of backstory and see if anyone knows who the man in the photo is.

[00:07:10] Okay.

[00:07:11] Well, someone comments and says that's my grandfather and it goes viral.

[00:07:17] So she like wakes up to like a million views on her Tiktok or whatever.

[00:07:21] It's a guy, right?

[00:07:22] It's a guy.

[00:07:23] And he says that his name is Teddy and she says that her name is L even

[00:07:29] though her name is Noel because it's like, I don't know if I want to

[00:07:33] give you my full information, whatever.

[00:07:34] Right.

[00:07:35] Smart.

[00:07:36] I know.

[00:07:37] So they agree to meet up and he's like, I'm going to bring my grandfather

[00:07:41] with me to meet up at this cafe or whatever.

[00:07:45] And in walks her high school rival Theo and his grandfather Paul.

[00:07:54] No.

[00:07:55] So his grandfather does call him Teddy, but everybody else calls him Theo.

[00:08:01] Yeah.

[00:08:03] So they have, you know, start discussing her Graham as she calls her and

[00:08:11] their relationship that they had.

[00:08:14] And Paul, the grandfather agrees to like tell her the story and show

[00:08:20] her the letters that he has from her grandmother and all this kind of

[00:08:23] stuff.

[00:08:24] And amongst their things, they find a plan for a honeymoon that Paul

[00:08:33] and her Graham were planning to take.

[00:08:35] They obviously never got married, but they were planning to.

[00:08:38] Okay.

[00:08:39] And so Noel says, can we go on this trip together?

[00:08:43] She's, she's at like a teddy or with both of them?

[00:08:46] Well, it's supposed to just be like her on her own.

[00:08:50] And then the grandfather Paul is like, well, I'll come with you.

[00:08:52] I would love to do that.

[00:08:53] And then Theo like joins in.

[00:08:56] She and Theo are both kind of at like turning points in their lives.

[00:09:00] They're, I don't know, 30s, like late 20s early 30s.

[00:09:04] And they're both having career issues and whatever.

[00:09:08] So they're, they just, they need to get away for a couple of weeks.

[00:09:11] So they decide that the three of them are going to go on this

[00:09:14] trip together on this honeymoon that never happened vacation.

[00:09:20] And it's a romance.

[00:09:22] So I'll let you figure out the rest.

[00:09:24] Where did they go?

[00:09:25] Can you tell us or is that a, I could if I remembered, um, Vegas,

[00:09:30] they went to Vegas, maybe Arizona at one point.

[00:09:34] Um, it was all like West Coast-ish kind of stuff.

[00:09:38] Cause they're based in like San Francisco area.

[00:09:42] So it was cute.

[00:09:44] Um, I did again really appreciate like all of the plotline of her

[00:09:49] and her grandmother's connection and all that kind of stuff.

[00:09:53] There was some good chemistry between, um, Noelle and Theo,

[00:09:58] but I don't know.

[00:10:00] It just didn't like spark for me for some reason.

[00:10:04] It happens.

[00:10:05] Yeah, it does.

[00:10:06] It was a cute book though.

[00:10:08] Your turn.

[00:10:10] The end.

[00:10:14] Um, so I wasn't going to do this book,

[00:10:16] but it's the only thing that I would say won't to get in.

[00:10:19] Oh man.

[00:10:20] We're such bombers.

[00:10:21] No, it's so good.

[00:10:22] Wait, are you messing with me?

[00:10:24] No.

[00:10:25] Wait, it really was good.

[00:10:26] It was fantastic or it was really good because it was funny story by Emily Henry.

[00:10:32] I was so confused.

[00:10:33] I was like, I wasn't going to do it cause we've just done her so many times.

[00:10:37] And I didn't, I was going to maybe mention it and just give a little quick thing,

[00:10:40] but I couldn't, I, it's all, it's all like, it's all she read.

[00:10:44] But it was great.

[00:10:45] It was good.

[00:10:47] I know you tell me about it.

[00:10:49] Okay.

[00:10:50] And then I'll tell you about it.

[00:10:51] So funny story is Emily Henry's newest novel that just came out,

[00:10:55] um, I think in April.

[00:10:57] Um, of course it is narrated by the one and only Julia Whelan.

[00:11:03] Um, it was just, it was very Emily Henry.

[00:11:08] Um, the main characters.

[00:11:11] Wait.

[00:11:12] My Instagram poll, did you choose Abby Hemanus or Emily Henry?

[00:11:17] You chose Emily Henry didn't you?

[00:11:19] 100%.

[00:11:20] Yeah.

[00:11:21] But I haven't read a whole lot of Abby Hemanus.

[00:11:23] What?

[00:11:24] I haven't, I haven't read like all of them like, like you have.

[00:11:27] I just, because you read them so I have to read something else

[00:11:30] so that we have something to talk about.

[00:11:33] Okay.

[00:11:34] I'm sorry.

[00:11:35] All right.

[00:11:36] Well, I mean, I can read her newest one and we can do a joint.

[00:11:41] Okay.

[00:11:42] We'll, we'll talk about that offline.

[00:11:44] Tell me about Emily Henry's book.

[00:11:49] Okay.

[00:11:50] So Daphne is the main, is our main character with Daphne and Miles really.

[00:11:55] Um, but Daphne is engaged to a man named Peter at the beginning of the book.

[00:12:00] And she's been Peter for a few years and they are.

[00:12:03] Can I just stop you and say that even though I read this, none of this sounds familiar to me.

[00:12:07] Well good.

[00:12:08] Then what is wrong with me?

[00:12:10] You're responsible.

[00:12:11] Uh, you tell me maybe you were wrong.

[00:12:14] All right.

[00:12:16] Continue.

[00:12:17] Um, so they are supposed to be getting married and he goes on his bachelor party.

[00:12:23] Okay.

[00:12:24] I remember now.

[00:12:25] Continue.

[00:12:26] He goes on his bachelor party and he has his groomsmen as well as his best friend who

[00:12:31] happens to be female.

[00:12:32] You can see where this is going.

[00:12:34] Yeah.

[00:12:35] Um, and you know, she's always Daphne's always been super supportive because, you

[00:12:39] know, she's just his best friend who happens to look like a model.

[00:12:42] No deal.

[00:12:43] Nothing to be concerned about.

[00:12:46] No, nothing nefarious there.

[00:12:48] No.

[00:12:49] And he's told her.

[00:12:50] We're just really good friends.

[00:12:51] Yeah.

[00:12:52] We're just friends.

[00:12:53] Nothing would ever happen between us.

[00:12:55] I love you.

[00:12:57] Um, so he comes back from the bachelor party and seems a little off and she

[00:13:03] goes to give him a hug and he basically like holds her back and pretty much tells

[00:13:07] her that he hooked up with his best friend and that they're planning to be

[00:13:12] together and that he's, they, they are going to give her a little time.

[00:13:17] They're gonna, they're gonna leave and go on a trip so that she has time to

[00:13:22] get her things together to move out of his house.

[00:13:26] Um, she has recently moved from her, wherever she lived previously.

[00:13:31] I don't remember what state it was to where he wanted to live.

[00:13:34] I don't know if it was home for him.

[00:13:36] I can't, I guess so.

[00:13:37] Um, so she picked up her whole life, quit her job, moved there.

[00:13:42] He bought a house in his name.

[00:13:44] She's not on it.

[00:13:45] They're not married.

[00:13:46] Um, and she's like, well, where are you going to go?

[00:13:49] And he's like, no, you're leaving.

[00:13:51] You're leaving my home.

[00:13:53] Yes.

[00:13:54] So she has to leave.

[00:13:56] They move into the marital house that they were about to, but she has

[00:14:02] her dress.

[00:14:03] Like I think they sent out invitations.

[00:14:04] Like it's like a whole thing.

[00:14:05] Mm-hmm.

[00:14:06] I mean, if you got as far as the bachelor and bachelorette party,

[00:14:10] like it's not far away.

[00:14:11] Correct.

[00:14:12] Yeah.

[00:14:13] So, um, then we have Miles who is, I can't remember the girl's name that,

[00:14:19] that he, the friend, the best friend.

[00:14:21] I can't remember her name.

[00:14:22] And Priya.

[00:14:23] You think I'm going to remember?

[00:14:24] Anyway, no, but I'm just saying she doesn't matter.

[00:14:28] She's not important to this story, to this funny story.

[00:14:31] So her boyfriend's of three years was Miles and Daphne always heard

[00:14:37] Peter say negative things about Miles.

[00:14:39] So she didn't really know him that well.

[00:14:41] She never really knew the girl that well, you know, they weren't

[00:14:45] close friends like she was with Peter.

[00:14:47] I'm sorry.

[00:14:48] Um, so she has nowhere to live.

[00:14:51] She doesn't know anyone.

[00:14:52] So she's not going to be a good friend.

[00:14:54] So she's not going to be a good friend.

[00:14:57] So she has nowhere to live.

[00:14:59] She doesn't know anyone.

[00:15:00] She's new, relatively new to this town.

[00:15:03] She does have a fantastic job.

[00:15:05] She's a librarian.

[00:15:06] I was going to say you have so far left out the important fact.

[00:15:10] She's a librarian.

[00:15:11] She loves to read.

[00:15:12] She loves this new job.

[00:15:13] She's just like super happy.

[00:15:15] So it felt like all of these things in her life were really falling

[00:15:19] together instead of falling apart like they usually do.

[00:15:22] And, you know, um, they come from two very different backgrounds.

[00:15:27] He's wealthy.

[00:15:28] He has like a, you know, I don't know the, I don't want to say a fairy

[00:15:34] tale family life, but it was, you know, pretty good childhood.

[00:15:37] Her childhood was a little, you know, not terrible.

[00:15:41] Her mother was really there for her, but she ended up being

[00:15:43] a single parent because her dad was pretty out of the picture

[00:15:46] and selfish and seemed like he was just did his own thing

[00:15:49] and he came back when he wanted to.

[00:15:51] Sounds a little like Peter.

[00:15:53] Yeah, sure does.

[00:15:55] So she has some issues from that.

[00:15:59] And she I think really held on to the fact that Peter seems

[00:16:02] solid.

[00:16:03] He came from a solid background and she thought that

[00:16:06] he has a good family.

[00:16:07] Yep.

[00:16:08] So she has nowhere to go.

[00:16:11] And Miles no longer has a roommate.

[00:16:15] I mean, for all intents and purposes, she obviously had a

[00:16:20] thing for Peter the whole time.

[00:16:22] Right?

[00:16:23] So probably was more of a roommate situation.

[00:16:25] Yeah.

[00:16:26] So, um, she moves in with Miles and I don't know that I

[00:16:33] could, I don't know that I should even say much more

[00:16:35] than that.

[00:16:36] I think that y'all can figure it out.

[00:16:38] It's a romance.

[00:16:39] Um, but it did have, I thought the characters were

[00:16:44] well developed.

[00:16:45] Um, I liked Daphne.

[00:16:47] I liked Miles.

[00:16:48] I love Miles.

[00:16:49] Um, there was some other characters like Miles sister

[00:16:53] who was great.

[00:16:54] Um, we get point of views of like her mother and her father

[00:16:58] and her father's current wife who was like,

[00:17:01] Oh my gosh.

[00:17:02] Delulu like crazy.

[00:17:04] What was Star Shine?

[00:17:06] Star Shine.

[00:17:07] Star Shine.

[00:17:08] Star Shine.

[00:17:09] If something like that.

[00:17:10] Something ridiculous.

[00:17:11] Yeah.

[00:17:12] And then she told her in one part, she was like,

[00:17:15] You can call me mom if you'd like.

[00:17:17] No, thanks, Star Shine.

[00:17:19] I'm good.

[00:17:20] I'll just stick with Star Shine actually.

[00:17:22] She tells Miles and I was like,

[00:17:23] If it makes you feel better, she asked me to call

[00:17:26] her mom too.

[00:17:27] Um, they didn't have such a cute relationship though

[00:17:33] and Miles is just a wonderful lead.

[00:17:38] And he just for to kind of get you going,

[00:17:41] he's a brunette tall.

[00:17:45] Handsome.

[00:17:46] Handsome.

[00:17:47] Um, he works out of winery like a,

[00:17:49] or like a wine bar.

[00:17:51] Sorry, not a winery, a wine bar.

[00:17:53] Um, he's the manager.

[00:17:56] Uh, he's the food sorcerer.

[00:17:59] That's correct.

[00:18:00] Sorry.

[00:18:01] Yes.

[00:18:02] He knows where to get everything in town.

[00:18:04] You want pistachios.

[00:18:05] He's got a guy.

[00:18:06] The best pistachios.

[00:18:07] Bre got a guy.

[00:18:09] Or a gal.

[00:18:11] Yeah, or yeah.

[00:18:12] I mean girl gal.

[00:18:14] Anyways, it was good.

[00:18:17] I liked it.

[00:18:18] It was classic Emily Henry to me.

[00:18:20] I know you're probably going to disagree because I don't

[00:18:22] think we agreed on the last, um,

[00:18:24] I don't remember the name of the, her last novel,

[00:18:27] but I liked this one more than that one.

[00:18:29] And I think you really liked that one and I,

[00:18:31] that was not my favorite.

[00:18:32] I can't remember the name of it.

[00:18:34] Well, now I have to look it up because I can't remember if

[00:18:37] that was my favorite or not.

[00:18:40] I don't know that it was your favorite,

[00:18:41] but you're like, I actually really liked it.

[00:18:43] It was in, we talked about it because there was,

[00:18:45] you know, where they don't actually communicate.

[00:18:47] And if they just would have talked, it would have.

[00:18:49] Oh, but it was a different situation than usual.

[00:18:53] I agree.

[00:18:54] Um, was it happy place?

[00:18:56] Yes, it was happy place.

[00:18:58] I did read happy place five stars.

[00:19:00] Yeah.

[00:19:01] Um, I rated funny story four stars.

[00:19:04] Um, I really liked it, but it was not my favorite Emily Henry.

[00:19:09] Yeah.

[00:19:10] And that's fine.

[00:19:11] See, I definitely preferred this over happy place,

[00:19:13] but I 100%, I think my favorite is, um,

[00:19:18] um,

[00:19:19] people we meet on vacation.

[00:19:21] No, I like people a bit of book lovers.

[00:19:23] I think has been my favorite for sure.

[00:19:27] Well,

[00:19:29] did you like happy place more than book lovers?

[00:19:31] Well, I can't tell you the answer to that because for some reason

[00:19:34] on my good reads, um, book lovers has no rating.

[00:19:38] No star rating.

[00:19:39] Okay.

[00:19:40] I don't know what happened there.

[00:19:41] Um, and I just, you know how my memory is.

[00:19:47] I have no idea of anything about book lovers.

[00:19:49] I don't know anything about it.

[00:19:51] It's like I've never read it, but yeah.

[00:19:55] Anyways, it was good.

[00:19:57] I liked it.

[00:19:58] Yeah.

[00:19:59] I think I like it more now that we've discussed it than like,

[00:20:02] no, seriously, like when I first finished it,

[00:20:04] I was like, okay, solid book.

[00:20:07] But now I'm like, oh yeah, I loved Miles and I loved this.

[00:20:11] And yeah.

[00:20:12] Well, why don't we talk about the tea?

[00:20:14] The delicious tea.

[00:20:15] So good.

[00:20:16] That's no longer delicious because we left the tea bags

[00:20:18] in too long and now it's better.

[00:20:20] For those of you just starting out drinking delicious tea,

[00:20:23] if you sometimes, if you leave a tea bag in too long,

[00:20:26] steeping, it makes it bitter.

[00:20:28] Specifically do not do that with plum deluxe.

[00:20:32] We have discovered and failed to learn from our mistakes

[00:20:37] that it will get bitter.

[00:20:39] We're just really excited about books and we just can't

[00:20:41] take the time to take the tea bag out.

[00:20:43] I mean honestly, who can be bothered?

[00:20:46] Why don't we have a tea bag remover?

[00:20:49] That would be amazing.

[00:20:51] Yes.

[00:20:52] Once we make it large and big and...

[00:20:55] We'll hire a tea bag remover.

[00:20:57] We probably should call it something else because that could be...

[00:21:00] We might get some really weird...

[00:21:02] Please come remove our tea bags.

[00:21:05] We can't say that either.

[00:21:07] There's some way that we're going to get some really weird resumes.

[00:21:11] Even if we call it something that sounds normal.

[00:21:14] The tea bag itself is a bad term,

[00:21:17] so I think that that could be construed as something weird.

[00:21:19] How about just a tea attendant?

[00:21:20] Yes.

[00:21:21] We'll just hire a tea.

[00:21:23] They can make the tea for us too.

[00:21:25] Yes.

[00:21:26] Oh, I'm liking this position.

[00:21:29] Let's flush it out a little bit more but later.

[00:21:32] Off the air.

[00:21:36] Yes, yes.

[00:21:37] So today's tea...

[00:21:41] Please friends, please give us feedback on whether you prefer

[00:21:46] sane and normal Jamie and Marissa or...

[00:21:52] or delirious and out of their minds, Jamie and Marissa.

[00:21:56] If you prefer the latter we will try to no longer sleep.

[00:21:59] Just for you.

[00:22:03] Yes.

[00:22:04] So plum deluxe is peacard black.

[00:22:07] I don't know why I'm still talking in that voice.

[00:22:10] But anyway, it's black tea with orange peels, blue corn flowers,

[00:22:15] cinnamon chips, bergamot oil and pecan essence.

[00:22:19] It's delicious.

[00:22:21] Very, very good.

[00:22:23] Very good.

[00:22:24] Yum.

[00:22:25] Until it got bitter.

[00:22:27] And I'm still drinking it anyway.

[00:22:28] Yeah.

[00:22:29] But those first couple sips were quite delicious.

[00:22:32] We also have a little shout out to mom.

[00:22:36] Everyone's mom.

[00:22:37] Shout out to mom.

[00:22:40] Therese, Tezzie as my children call her.

[00:22:46] Thank you for the muffin cookies.

[00:22:48] Yeah, your chip cookies that she made into little bitty muffins.

[00:22:53] They're adorable.

[00:22:54] And they go really well with our tea.

[00:22:57] And they are delicious.

[00:22:58] Yeah.

[00:22:59] And they are much appreciated because I had zero breakfast.

[00:23:03] Thanks mom.

[00:23:04] Thanks mom.

[00:23:05] Cheers.

[00:23:09] Oh, cheers.

[00:23:11] Thanks for listening.

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[00:23:31] Cheers.