24: JOSH’S SUMMER PLANS, UPDATES, AND THE TRUTH ABOUT COMMUNITY

**Josh Harmon** (0:01)
Hello, everyone, welcome back to What's The Sip, podcast by friends for friends. And once again, today, we have no friends.
I'm my only friend today. I think our baby said the same thing last time I did a solo episode.
Okay, let me be really honest with you guys today, right now. I'm recording a solo episode, mostly because I did not do great at planning, and my apologies go to Mr. Charles for that one. But, okay, I'm recording this on Tuesday evening, and tomorrow, Wednesday, I'm leaving for a trip to West Virginia. When you are listening to this, probably it'll be last week that I did this trip.
But having a shortened week really limited me to when I could record. So I was gonna get some of my friends to be on, but it was pretty short notice, and I have a pretty packed evening, just getting ready for the trip. So here we are. It's just me. And I also thought maybe like every 10 episodes, so my last solo episode was episode number 13, and this is 24, which is, is this halfway through the year? 24, is that, what's 24 plus, no, 48 No, nevermind. We're not halfway through, yeah. Because half of 52 would be 31 So episode 31 will be, nope, that's not true. That would equal 62
I'm trying to figure out when half, what week is halfway through the year. Because there's 52 weeks in a year, and we're on 24, but 24 plus 24 equals 48 So that would mean 48, 49, 50, 51 Okay, so that would mean 24, 25, 26 is halfway through the year. Okay.
What was I saying?
Oh, that, that, that, like every, so my last episode was, solo episode was 13, and this is almost 10 episodes later. But maybe like every 10 episodes, I'll do a solo episode just to kind of like catch you guys up on like my life, because obviously we, I talk a lot about other people's lives, and I thought maybe this would be a good way to, yeah, just update you guys on my life and kind of help just steer the boat of the podcast into like the direction that we want to continue moving of, you know, like sharing other people's stories and letting you guys into my life, in the life of like my friends and the people that I get to do life with. And so this episode will be a little bit of an update on me, on the podcast, but also I wanted to give you guys a little bit of like deeper insight, or at least my perspective on community and like friendship. And I guess like my friend group more specifically kind of maybe at the tail end of that, just because, I mean, we are 24 episodes in and that's a good chunk of my friends. Me and I have a few friends that have not been on, or that I don't know if they'll like, I don't know if this is like really their scene or their vibe. So maybe they will make an appearance, maybe not. But anyway, give you guys my perspective on like our friend group, even though I do kind of, I share with you guys like the friendship origin stories. And so you probably have a general good idea of like my friends and like our origin story as a friend group, but just kind of, well maybe break it down from you just from my perspective at least, or like community in general. And I think that it's really important and something that I really believe in and desire for other people. And so may share on that. I know that might be a little bit deeper and more serious note than the typical tone at Whats The Sip, but I think it could be good. It could be good for us. My sip tonight, you guys, I didn't, I don't have what I wanted. I meant to get a country dairy chocolate milk, like a single serve one. I got one from the gas station the other day. I got it from Wesco and so I was in Grand Haven and so I don't know if they're spring. Like, I don't know if there's a, if they have country dairy chocolate milk at other gas stations like around here, like a Speedway or whatever. But I had the country dairy chocolate milk and I was like, oh my gosh, this one is so much better. I usually have just like Meyer brand or Fairlife. And I'm like, the country dairy is better than both of those. And have you had it? And you think it's better? Okay. Have you been to the country dairy farm? Yes, it's kind of by Noah's Cottage. I know. I think I'm thinking of country. It's up north a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, ice cream there, very good.