Hi folks, Jack Spirco here.

Today you are listening to an episode of TSP Rewind.

Commercial-free versions of past episodes.

Podcasts blasts from the pasts.

I put these up when I can't do a show due to professional commitments or rare vacations.

These podcasts will appear in standard iTunes, Stitcher, and other feeds,

but will be titled

TSP Rewind Episodes and numbered accordingly.

And today, folks, we are rewinding back to October 28, 2019.

Originally episode 2,539, 12 basic prepping questions answered.

This was a fundamentals episode, and I thought it would be a good time to bring it around.

And yes, we're doing one more rewind.

This was not the original plan when I got back from Alaska.

I planned on doing a full day's work today.

And I guess I'm still doing a full day's work, just not a podcast.

But the main reason is I picked up some kind of crud on the boat. Maybe it's the razor blade throat variant

of COVID or whatever bullshit they're spilling right now. But indeed, I do have a pretty raspy

and raw throat. That's pretty common when I travel but usually because I'm speaking I

the only speaking I did on the boat was to some people we met into my wife so I wasn't

there on a public speaking event or anything like that so I don't think it's that it's some kind

of crutch she seemed to pick it up honestly before we even got on the ship and I guess then she

passed it on to me it gives me flashbacks to when she used to be a nurse and brought home crud with her all the time. I used to call her diphtheria Dorothy. I don't know if that's the case or maybe she did. It all the time got emerged together at this point. But we had a blast. We flew into Seattle. I got some stories when we get back tomorrow for a full new episode.

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