Good morning. Afternoon evening or the dead of night to you wherever you are whatever time it is whatever you're doing

Welcome to another edition a very special edition in fact of tangentially speaking

I'm Chris Ryan your host, I guess I'm a host

Anyway, I got a really nice email this week from a guy named Frederick

Who's a farmer in northern Norway?

What the fuck do you farm in northern Norway? I can't imagine but he's I mean northern Norway that's that's way the fuck up there

So long growing season in the summer and a long cold winter anyway

Frederick thank you for your email very nice and

It's always cool to hear from people in bizarre places. I got another email from a guy and

Where was he in chilly? I think and he said he was listening to the podcast walking down the street

when he sees a

Yorkie escape from you know off the leash Yorkie running around in these two German shepherds sweep in and pick it up and start playing with this

Yorkie like you know as if it were a rag doll or a

Stick in the park or something so he runs over and he and another guy and they're sort of like pulling these German shepherds and trying to save this

Yorkie and the whole while this crazy situation is happening

He's got me droning on in his ears

So I was kind of there but ignoring the situation I guess

Anyway, the point is it's amazing that you're out there listening to this and I'm standing here alone in my almost empty office

Which I'm moving out of in Portland as much as I

Wine and piss and moan about modernity there are some pretty cool things about it in the fact that

My voice is reaching your ear right now is

Definitely cool and I'm grateful for it. So thank you for making that possible and welcome to new listeners

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