Welcome back, everybody, to Season 3 of Instrumental.

Yay.

We've missed you.

I've missed you, too.

I'm JJ.

I'm Dave, her husband.

And if you've been following along for seasons one and two, you know that the format of our show is a little bit unusual.

We like to tell our guest stories backwards.

However, over the past year, we interviewed quite a few amazing people whose stories didn't quite work with our format.

But since we get to make up the rules around here, we decided to go ahead and break our format for this season because you really need to hear these stories.

This first episode features some adult themes and may not be appropriate for little ears.

So if you have children listening along with you, they might need to sit this one out.

However, JJ's music is appropriate for little ears. So feel free to tell Siri or Alexa to play music by

JJ Heller anytime. Before we move on to today's episode, let's hear a word from our sponsor.

Do we have a sponsor?

Yeah. We do? Yeah. Okay. It's us. Oh. We are the sponsor. All right. We're sponsoring our own podcast.

I'm my own sponsor.

Today's show is brought to you by J.J. Heller's newest album, I Dream of You, Volume 3, releasing

on February 5th.

But you don't have to wait a month to begin hearing music from the album because every Friday

from now until the album comes out, we're releasing a new single from the record

wherever you listen to music.

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