Hey, don't MUTE this podcast! We want you to listen to it! Although, to be honest, I guess if you played the episode with the sound muted, we'd still get credit for you listening, so I don't know that we'd necessarily care. Actually, if anything, it might be better for us if you played it muted. I mean, worse case scenario, you played it accidentally with no intention of listening to it, in which case we'd get your listen without having to deal with you judging us. Best case scenario, you intended to listen to the episode and just the muting part was the accident - in which case you'd have to go back and play it again but with the sound on this time, and we'd get credit for two listens that rightfully should have only counted as one. Look, I'm gonna lay my cards on the table here; I was just trying to kick off this episode description with a toothless play on words, and it's gotten wildly out of hand, so I think it would be better for both of us if I abandon this line of reasoning entirely and just start describing the episode now. So here goes: