Birth Story Part 1

[00:00:00] Jessy Grossman: I can say with all certainty that having gone through that experience of passing a kidney stone a week before I gave birth, it was hands down way more painful than actual labor. Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome back to the WIM podcast. This is Jessi Grossman, your host and the founder of Women in Influencer Marketing, better known as WHIM.

[00:00:29] Jessy Grossman: If you are new to this podcast, a giant warm welcome. If you’re watching on YouTube, I hope that you, uh, like this video and subscribe. And if you’re listening to us on Spotify or iTunes or wherever you download your podcasts, I hope you enjoyed this episode. And if you are a regular listener, thank you from the bottom of my heart for always.

[00:00:51] Jessy Grossman: listening to our episodes. I appreciate you guys. We would literally, I’d be talking into a microphone for absolutely no reason if it [00:01:00] wasn’t for you guys. So thank you. So for the last few weeks of 2025, when I’m recording this, I’m recording this exactly, uh, February 18th. For 2025, we’ve had all these good episodes with guests, hosts, and hand-selected.

[00:01:17] Jessy Grossman: Did, uh, people who they’ve been interviewing, and it’s been refreshing for me. And I hope you too, to just like hear other people’s voices, all these incredible members of WHM, all of their awesome opinions, strong opinions. And so we love to, uh, promote in this community strong female opinions. I hope you’ve been enjoying that.

[00:01:39] Jessy Grossman: I am firmly on maternity leave. Sadly, I’m getting to the end of that. So this week’s episode, you guys have me. This is the first episode that I’ve been recording in months. I’ve not recorded anything for the podcast in a long time. And in fact, The episodes [00:02:00] that we recorded that you’ve been listening to for the last few weeks were all prerecorded.

[00:02:04] Jessy Grossman: I put a lot of work into preparing to have a full three-month maternity leave with baby Mikey. And so we’ve been like soaking it up, having the best time. Like, don’t get me wrong. He’s fussy sometimes and screaming and it gets hard, but I want to keep it real with you guys. But overall, like.

[00:02:29] Jessy Grossman: It’s just like, it’s a dream. And I know a lot of you have been tuning into this show for a long time. And I’ve had episodes where I’ve shared pretty personal things about my journey to have a baby and the fertility challenges that we went through and all that jazz. So for those of you who have like stuck around this whole time to like, see full circle that whole journey, he’s here.

[00:02:52] Jessy Grossman: And like, it’s, it feels like a miracle that he’s here. I sometimes I honestly, like, I don’t really yeah. It doesn’t feel [00:03:00] real like it doesn’t feel real. I mean, he’s, he’s not even three months old yet. So this week’s episode, you guys, in that same spirit is going to be a pretty personal one. So I thought of doing this.

[00:03:15] Jessy Grossman: Episode for a long time, it would, it feels like inauthentic for me to come back and do an episode with you guys after a long hiatus on maternity leave and like, not talk about the baby, the pregnancy, the labor. So. I thought about this and it makes sense to sort of split this up into multiple episodes.

[00:03:37] Jessy Grossman: So this is going to only be part one, but this week’s episode is going to be from the end of my pregnancy up until. About the end of my labor. So, and I guess like the end of my time in the hospital, which preview was a little bit longer than most people [00:04:00] because I ended up in the ICU. So if this is, if you’re tuning in for the first time and being like, where is that influencer marketing content and all that?

[00:04:09] Jessy Grossman: Well, we will get to that on another episode. You have over 200 episodes that you can Pull from the past, but today we’re focusing on the women in influencer marketing part of our community. And I, again, would just feel inauthentic if I came back and like talked about Instagram posts with you guys.

[00:04:32] Jessy Grossman: So I felt like a way to catch up would be all about. The pregnancy and the labor. So this is part one and thanks for tuning in and let’s get into it.

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[00:05:52] Jessy Grossman: Cause I, there was, I mean, part of it is a blur. Part of it is like the first three months of having a baby. My brain is a little mushy still. So I definitely [00:06:00] wanted to write down some notes and not forget to say certain things. But so, okay. Overall. My recollection of the pregnancy was generally really positive.

[00:06:12] Jessy Grossman: My biggest struggle was the fact that I was, like, exhausted, like, really from the second trimester on. The first trimester, which everybody, most other people at least, have so many complaints about. Oh, they get nauseous and morning sickness and All these really difficult things in the first trimester were not my experience at all.

[00:06:34] Jessy Grossman: Thankfully, I had like two, like twice that I puked my entire pregnancy and it was like, I don’t know, it almost didn’t even feel pregnancy-related, but I was very, really, really lucky in that regard. At the end of the pregnancy, it’s the hardest and everyone says that and it’s true. I mean, you’re like the biggest you’re ever gonna be and you run out of breath [00:07:00] and it’s just like it’s hard to move and I was just so tired and all the things.

[00:07:05] Jessy Grossman: And so when I ended up giving birth a couple of weeks early, like. I was good with it. I was like, all right, I have felt what it feels like to be fully pregnant. I can check that off my bucket list. I’m good. I want to meet him. So I gave birth, I think at like 38, about 38 weeks. And when I was about 37 weeks, literally The night of my doula coming, so my doula came at like, I don’t know, let’s say like eight o’clock or something and did a session with us at home and that session was maybe our second section together, maybe third, I think second though we’d barely met with her.

[00:07:51] Jessy Grossman: And she was going over the sort of like exercises that Paul and I could do to alleviate some of the pain, [00:08:00] get my mind centered, and all of these like physical activities that he and I could do together to get through the labor. So we have that session, let’s say, like, eight o’clock at night, she leaves, let’s say, 10 p.m. from her house, and at like, one in the morning, I wake up.

[00:08:20] Jessy Grossman: And I’m in like excruciating pain, I was like, it was early. It was like 37 weeks. It wasn’t even 38 weeks. So I wasn’t even technically full term yet. And I didn’t know what it was. And it was just like the pain kept progressively getting more intense. So. We end up going to the hospital at like 2 in the morning, we’re exhausted, I’m incredibly uncomfortable, I was just like, kind of waiting it out.

[00:08:53] Jessy Grossman: Um, because also we had discussed wanting to labor from home for a while, so like if I was actually in labor, I wanted to chill at home for a while, [00:09:00] not go right to the hospital. I felt like something was wrong. Like I was like, something’s wrong, something like this doesn’t feel right. I’m in so much pain so quickly.

[00:09:10] Jessy Grossman: I gotta go to the hospital, so we go to the hospital. And they hook me up to a monitor to check the contractions and they say that I’m not in labor. I was in excruciating pain. You guys, I have a fairly high pain tolerance. So they sent me home. We ended up leaving the hospital at seven in the morning.

[00:09:32] Jessy Grossman: It was awful. We’re up all night, not even admitted, obviously, just like the teeny tiny little evaluation rooms. And, they’re like, it must be like Braxton Hicks contractions basically like we see contractions like they saw they said 4 in a minute. I swear she said, but these aren’t labor contractions.

[00:09:55] Jessy Grossman: They must be Braxton Hicks, which are essentially like. It’s your body [00:10:00] preparing to give birth, but you’re not having labor contractions. So I went home and I had similar pains about like two or so nights later, I was trying to figure out what was going on with my doctor, my OB. Long story long, about a week later after that hospital visit, my water, like, definitively breaks around five in the morning.

[00:10:25] Jessy Grossman: It was, I was like, what does it feel like to have, like, your water break? Like, what it, like, it’s, it feels like what it. What do you think it is? Like, it’s literally like, I was, thank God I wasn’t like out. I feel like that’s just a little uncomfortable. If you’re like out in public or I don’t know, I was sleeping.

[00:10:43] Jessy Grossman: It woke me up in the middle of the night. I stood up. And you just, you’re, you’re leaking, your water breaks. That’s what happens. It’s very literal. So I wasn’t in any pain yet. So and again, like my [00:11:00] birth plan, which I think is like the biggest joke of it. I mean, it was a joke for me.

[00:11:05] Jessy Grossman: Everything that I wanted to do on my birth plan never really happened. But part of my birth plan was to be at home for as long as possible. Why be in like a cold hospital when I could just be at home when my shower using the water, the hot water that. Helped me tremendously the week before when I was in all this pain and I was troubleshooting things then and figuring out things that worked because I wasn’t in labor the week before, even though it was an excruciating pain.

[00:11:34] Jessy Grossman: So I took a shower and slowly started to feel the pain coming in and the contractions. Started, but when my water broke, technically, like I, I didn’t feel much pain at all actually. So I took advantage of that time. So about an hour or so later, I was like, you know, we’re going to be up for a while.

[00:11:56] Jessy Grossman: I was like, do I wake Paul? It’s like five in the morning. I was like, [00:12:00] I don’t think I need to, I’m just going to let him sleep. We’re going to be up for a while. It’s going to be a very long day. So about an hour later. After I took a shower and chilled for a little bit, I kind of like gingerly woke him up and I was like, today’s the day.

[00:12:16] Jessy Grossman: So, I called my doctor, I called my doula, and we headed, everyone said to head to the hospital around 1 pm. I wanted to wait longer, but I was, gosh, what is it called? So, strep B, I was, I tested positive for, it’s like GBS, which is strep B, I guess. During the end of your pregnancy, they test you for that.

[00:12:43] Jessy Grossman: And I was like, Oh my God, I don’t want to be positive for this thing. But like, essentially. It’s pretty common and it just means that you have to have like a little antibiotic once you go into labor and they want to start giving you that and administering that within a short [00:13:00] time frame from when your water breaks.

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[00:14:30] Jessy Grossman: That’s I-A-M-W-I. im.com/k AE A t. I hope you guys love it as much as I do since my water broke. For some people other water doesn’t break ever even, but for some of them, it doesn’t break until they get to the hospital at least. Mine broke at home, therefore I only had a very short window to do all these lovely, relaxing, zen, at-home exercises that I dreamed of.

[00:14:56] Jessy Grossman: I didn’t really, I didn’t get that. So we headed to the hospital [00:15:00] around one o’clock and I ended up giving birth at 7 am the next day. So there were many hours of laboring. I wasn’t progressing very quickly. But after they sort of gave me medication, just progressed everything along, the pain set in.

[00:15:23] Jessy Grossman: I was always very open to getting an epidural and I just remember clinging on to the side of the bed and being like, why am I waiting? Why am I waiting? Now is the time I’m doing the epidural. Like now is the epidural. Like it was, it got really bad. And I consider myself somebody who has a high pain tolerance.

[00:15:44] Jessy Grossman: So I got the epidural and I remember waiting. It felt like forever. You guys, like I asked after, I was like, did it take an abnormally long time to, come into the room and like actually give me the epidural? [00:16:00] And Paul was like, not really. But I do remember hearing screaming in it. The, like, labor ward of some other woman who was giving birth, and my doula and Paul were just like, trying to, like, not expose me to that screaming.

[00:16:22] Jessy Grossman: They’re like, don’t listen, don’t listen, don’t listen. It’s going to freak you out. And I was like. It’s already freaking me out. It’s already freaking me out. Like, trying to breathe and be fine is terrifying. Like, I, no one talks about their birth experience. I probably should have said that at the beginning of this episode.

[00:16:39] Jessy Grossman: Like, nobody talks about their birth experience. I asked so many people and very few women told me in detail about what happened. So, That is part of the reason why I want to even like do this episode in the first place. Again, probably should have said that earlier on, but saying it now. So [00:17:00] finally, but it didn’t take that long, but in my mind, I was in pain for like, felt like an hour that I was waiting to get this epidural.

[00:17:06] Jessy Grossman: It was probably like 10 minutes. Maybe the doctor comes in and he looks at me, you guys. And one of the first things he says is essentially like, Oh, we might have to do the epidural. Like a couple of times because like, because of your size, my size, I can’t make this stuff up. My doula like looked at me with the biggest eyes I’ve ever seen and was literally like, did he just say that?

[00:17:38] Jessy Grossman: Yes. He told a nine-month pregnant woman. In the middle of labor because I’m the bigger girl he might have to do it twice. Why I needed to know that information in that way, I don’t know, but I was pretty shocked. [00:18:00] So. Okay, where I need this freaking epidural, I’m just going to not say anything right now.

[00:18:05] Jessy Grossman: And just, he’s going to shoot this thing into my back. And so I, yeah, he says basically like, don’t move, whatever you don’t move when I give you the shot. So a shot, it’s a giant needle that sticks into your spine. Again, had always sort of intended to get this, so it was part of the plan, so I sit on the bed, I sit up, Paul’s in front of me, I’m sort of like breathing through it, and they put the needle in, and I think he missed the first time.

[00:18:42] Jessy Grossman: So he takes it out or whatever, and he goes to do it again. You guys, this is a real thing. Look it up. But did you know that some people, when they get an epidural, myself included, lucky me, it [00:19:00] felt? Like, it was a shot of electricity, like I was being shocked in an electric chair when it, like, when they gave it to me, I, like, I went to jump.

[00:19:15] Jessy Grossman: It was shocking. Like, it felt like I was being shocked in an electric chair. I’m not exaggerating. I, like, I looked up and I like, I jumped a little and Paul held me down ’cause you’re not supposed to move. And I just said I was like, what the fuck was that? And they’re like, everyone’s looking at me in the room.

[00:19:34] Jessy Grossman: And I’m like, it felt like I was just like, shocked. What was that? And he’s like, just stand still. It’s going to be over. I just need to get it done, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like just, you can do it. You could do it. And I’m just sitting there and it’s again, it happens. And again, it happens. It happened like.

[00:19:50] Jessy Grossman: three times, maybe four times. It was terrifying, you guys. So like I [00:20:00] looked, I’ve looked it up since and it’s a very real thing. You just look up like an epidural, like an electric shock. I think those are the words that I looked up with some people. That’s what happens. Lucky me. Holy shit. It was. Terrifying. So after that joyous experience, I sort of settled in, and the pain all sort of started to fade away.

[00:20:24] Jessy Grossman: It was working. Thank goodness. And soon it was time to push. So I was like, it almost felt like it kind of crept up on me a little bit. Like I was like, holy shit, like so much, like. Anticipation of this moment. I mean, it was two years of trying to have this baby and then nine months of being pregnant, like all leading up to this moment of like pushing all these like hundreds of hours, [00:21:00] thousands of hours, probably of me thinking like, what is this moment going to be like?

[00:21:05] Jessy Grossman: And I’m so close to meeting my baby. And so I’m like, yeah. Okay, like, I don’t even know how to push, like, it sounds so stupid, but like, it’s like, what does pushing feel like? Like, am I, is it like a poop? Like, am I, is it like I’m pooping? Is it like I’m, like, what am I, what does it feel like? I don’t even know.

[00:21:26] Jessy Grossman: And so I’m like. Okay. So they, they put you in a position to push and they were saying that I was doing it right. Like, I, I know it sounds stupid, but like, I didn’t know what that felt like, or if I was going to be pushing in the right way or whatever, like what I never done this before. Right.

[00:21:43] Jessy Grossman: Makes sense. So I’m pushing. They’re saying, good, you’re doing good. Keep going. I’m pushing as hard as I can. You’re pushing. I’m pushing. Breathing. It’s like at the end of this exhausting hour of being in the hospital and being half awake at seven in the morning when he was born. [00:22:00] So I started pushing probably an hour before that.

[00:22:02] Jessy Grossman: I mean, it was, it was a lot. So At the end of all of that is when you have to sort of work the hardest, right, to push this baby out. So I’m pushing and my doctor says, So my blood pressure started to get high. And his heart rate started to drop and my doctor said that it’s possible like he was having like they could see him just crazy so cool they could see him but he like he wasn’t He wasn’t, he just wasn’t coming out and her guess was, she’s like, it could be that his little head is like tilted in just such a way that it’s like hard for him.

[00:22:49] Jessy Grossman: Like, it’s just preventing him from coming out. So she’s like, look, I think that we should call it right now before we get to the point where it’s an emergency [00:23:00] cesarean. And I think that we should just go and do a C-section right now. And I, yeah. I had been very mentally prepared by my best friend who had a c-section about like a year and a half ago before I gave birth to Mikey.

[00:23:17] Jessy Grossman: She had a horrific experience, so I was sort of like mentally prepared for the worst, but I was open-minded to having a c-section. Like this whole pregnancy, I’ve worked so hard to try to get this baby and have him in my life and like, I don’t want to get hung up on things, right? So, like, if I can give birth naturally, great.

[00:23:37] Jessy Grossman: If I have to get a C-section, fine. Like, I was a C-section baby. And so, when the plan, again, changed, I was at peace with that. Like, I was okay. So, We decided to get the C-section. I asked her, I was like, should I, is it worth continuing to try or do you think like now we should, like, we should call it?

[00:23:59] Jessy Grossman: And she’s like, I just [00:24:00] think we should call it. I don’t, he’s not going to come out this way. And I was like, okay. All right. So we called it and. Immediately, like, that was pretty intense, like, she said this before it turned into an emergency C-section, but as soon as she called it, basically, and said, all right, we’re going to a C section, I swear, like, 10 people, like, came into the room all of a sudden and start preparing everything for this surgery, it was overwhelming, it was overwhelming, I was trying to be at peace with everything, like, My doula sort of shuffled Paul out and said he’d like to change into scrubs, like ASAP because I want to make sure that you’re in the room.

[00:24:45] Jessy Grossman: They move quickly and they did. I remember kind of getting rolled out from the room that I was in into the operating room. And the first thing I remember is like, [00:25:00] super bright in there. I mean, obviously, like, but like, it’s an operating room. So it makes sense. It was so bright, but they were playing really fun music in the operating room.

[00:25:11] Jessy Grossman: I can imagine. That’s, I don’t know. I’ve been awake, certainly in an operating room. You’re, I mean, I was completely awake. Most people I think are, but you’re completely numb from the waist down because I had the epidural and it was fully kicked in at that point. I just remember there’s like this great like, It was like rock music.

[00:25:33] Jessy Grossman: Like, I don’t know. It’s like a mix of all sorts of things, but they have this like really loud, fairly loud music in the operating room, just to sort of have these surgeons like be in the zone. And I loved it. I loved it. So they put up the sheet in front of you and they kind of, they go right away pretty much and layers and layers that they cut through.

[00:25:56] Jessy Grossman: It’s crazy if you look it up and learn [00:26:00] about. I all of a sudden got super nauseous and I had like, there were so many people in the room. It was crazy. You guys, like, I would probably guess like at least 15 people at least, maybe even more in the room, and everyone’s got a job and everyone’s moving and it was.

[00:26:16] Jessy Grossman: Nothing like nothing I had experienced ever in my life and I remember I got super noshed all of a sudden. I was like, Oh, my God, I’m gonna throw up. I’m gonna throw up. And there’s two people like one on each side of my head and just like doctors and one of them. They’re super quick. They got the thing and I just threw up and they were just like, they’re really like everybody had it.

[00:26:37] Jessy Grossman: A job to do like the people on each side of me were like there to calm me down and like talk me through it and they’re prepared to like have a thing for me to throw up in and then they calmed me down and like it was just like everyone had a very specific task it was really. I felt like I was in good hands and [00:27:00] I didn’t feel thankfully any pain at all but they tell you you will feel pressure and I did.

[00:27:09] Jessy Grossman: I, like, I didn’t even really, like, know when they started, to be honest, which I guess is probably a good thing, right? Because I, you don’t want to, you don’t want to, you don’t want to feel it. I mean, I know it’s a weird thing. I never experienced being awake and having, like, this epidural or anesthesia, like, basically, like, not anesthesia, but something where you’re not feeling it, but you’re conscious, you’re completely awake.

[00:27:32] Jessy Grossman: So it was fairly quick and They took him out, and I got to hear him cry, and I cried, I like, I heard him crying, like he was like, oh, it’s so surreal, I was like, he was here, like, he’s here, and they quickly took him over to a table, like a little table to my left-hand side, and I remember [00:28:00] looking over and like seeing a flurry of activity and stuff, and he was seven pounds, one ounce.

[00:28:07] Jessy Grossman: He was so handsome, he still is. And they like, they have Paul go and like, cut the cord, the umbilical cord. I think it’s more like ceremonial because, I don’t know, as it seemed, I think they already like, they did it or something. I don’t know. It like, anyways, they take pictures for you and then they like, brought them over to me because you’re like, you’re strapped, I’m not strapped, you’re like, you’re on a table and you like, there’s so many people in the room, I can’t see so well.

[00:28:38] Jessy Grossman: So. I’m like, Jesus Christ. Like, I just carried this baby for nine months and I just went through this whole thing. Like, please bring him to me. Please bring him to me. And they did. And I liked it, it was amazing. Like, it was just so beautiful. And he’s just perfect. And he’s crying. And he’s so tiny, [00:29:00] absolutely one of the most incredible experiences of my entire life.

[00:29:04] Jessy Grossman: And like, yeah. I still to this day, like, I have to be mindful about this stuff because it’s like, it’s kind of hard to believe that I went through all this. It’s hard to believe that he’s here that I have a baby that, like, it’s been 3 months almost already. And like, I don’t know. There’s so much build-up to this, especially if you have any sort of fertility problems like I did.

[00:29:29] Jessy Grossman: There’s so much build-up that when it is here and it’s happening and they are like, you’re experiencing. Getting what you’ve wanted after so many years, it was hard for me to be present. Like I felt a little out of body about it all, to be honest, but I remember it clearly, which I’m grateful for.

[00:29:52] Jessy Grossman: And I’m really happy that like, I feel like I got the best of both worlds. Like I got the experience of being, of pushing one of. [00:30:00] doing it that way. It wasn’t like it was like a scheduled C-section and I got to feel what that felt like. It was really important to me. I just wanted to experience all of it, you know, and I did.

[00:30:10] Jessy Grossman: And then I got to have a C section and the recovery for that was, it took like a couple, it was like two to three weeks. There’s, it is not a minor surgery. Some people I think heal. Easier than others. And I think I was on the relatively quick healing side it’s not to be understated. It is a legitimately invasive surgery that you have to heal from and society pretty much immediately is like, all right, your mom, and like, your recovery comes secondary to the baby’s health and welfare.

[00:30:47] Jessy Grossman: And that’s like a whole other conversation that yeah. We could talk about it another time and should be talked about a lot, but it’s crazy. It’s crazy. And so I think this is a good place to sort of [00:31:00] pause because a lot happened after that, including me going into the ICU. It was really scary. I also discovered through going to the ICU and getting some testing done to figure out what was going on that I Simultaneously had kidney stones I bring that up because I don’t know if you remember, but at the beginning of the story that I was telling you in part one of today, how I ended up in the hospital about a week before I gave birth, I found out later that I had kidney stones and so.

[00:31:39] Jessy Grossman: We think that I was in all of that excruciating pain a week before I gave birth, and when they said it wasn’t labor, I think that I was passing a kidney stone, which is insane, and I can tell you as somebody who’s never had kidney stones in my entire life, A, it’s somewhat common that women Just get them during [00:32:00] pregnancy and never have them before or after.

[00:32:03] Jessy Grossman: Fun fact. Fun fact. Number two. I can say with all certainty that having gone through that experience of passing a kidney stone a week before I gave birth, it was. Hands down, way more painful than actual labor. So, as excruciating as it was, it prepared me to give birth because I was like, I got like a test run and I was like, well, Jesus Christ, if I can get through this, I can get through birth.

[00:32:33] Jessy Grossman: I can get through labor. Having gone through both in a fairly short proximity of time, I can say that passing a kidney stone is way more painful than actually birthing a child. Fun fact. So, in part two of my long story, my birth story, I’ll get into how things sort of took a turn. Mikey has always been.[00:33:00] 

[00:33:00] Jessy Grossman: In really good health and some stuff kind of going on with me that landed me in the ICU. So I will get into that in part two again. Thank you guys for listening. I like I want to share the story for lots of reasons. I want for you guys, whether you’re pregnant now or wanting to have a baby or thinking about it or want to support somebody else who is going to have a kid.

[00:33:23] Jessy Grossman: I just think that more women need to talk about this because I struggle to have women be open and honest with me when I was pregnant about their labor stories. And I also do think that some women forget, I think it’s like a biological thing because like women wouldn’t have a second or third or fourth child if.

[00:33:43] Jessy Grossman: They didn’t forget to a certain extent about how difficult pregnancy is, difficult labor is, and the first year of having a child, it’s very challenging. And I also want to, like, share the story [00:34:00] because it’s sort of like a diary for me, if I’m being honest, and I kind of want to have a record of it, of just trying to remember what it was like.

[00:34:09] Jessy Grossman: So, it was a very long story, which is why I’m breaking it up. I hope you guys enjoyed this. I hope you get value from this. I hope you tune in next week if you want to hear the rest of the story. Thank you guys, as always, so much for listening and I will see you in the next one. See you next week, guys. If you enjoyed this episode, we’ve got to have you back.

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