Stand up. Hello and welcome to today's episode of Stand Up and happy Taintweek. Hashtag Taintweek, everybody.

We're at the end of it between Christmas and New Year's year where really nothing needs to happen.

You don't need to do anything and you can do whatever you want. There are no rules. Time has officially stopped.

Food has no calories.

Alcohol doesn't affect your blood and you definitely don't need to return any emails.

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It's going to be a three-day experience.

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Well, today's episode is kind of unique in that I don't actually have a guest.

I wasn't planning on posting the show today because I was driving back from my parents where we were in Syracuse for Christmas.

But I've been listening to a whole bunch of different things, podcasts, and reading so much over these past several days that I wanted to share it with you because I felt like it was really interesting, thoughtful, and informative and helpful. That's kind of what I do here. I regurgitate information from the smartest

minds in the world, dead or alive. And today, I've got a good bit of that. So yeah, it's a little bit

different for this Monday, the second to last day of December of the rest of the week. I think I'll

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