Hello, my friends. Thank you very much for all of your kind support, thoughtful notes,

and texts and messages to those of you who had heard the sad news that we lost our family dog,

Indy. I mentioned it at the end of the show the other day on Monday and in the subscriber email

and that I would be off for a couple of days to be with my girls and catch up on a long to-do list

that I haven't been able to get to over the last two weeks because I wouldn't leave Indies side.

I know so many of you have suffered the loss of a pet, some of you multiple times,

and I just, I'm really grateful to everybody's reached out and shared your thoughts about your

grief and how you've navigated it.

And while I think I've made a career of being transparent about my personal life as a stand-up

comedian, certainly I always talked a lot about my life and my

shortcomings and my failures and tried to make those things entertaining and funny and relatable.

And certainly on the different iterations of this show, I've done the same thing. But I've always tried

when talking publicly about challenging personal issues to make

them at least entertaining, if not informative, and hope that you can take something from it.

So that is what I showed up to do today. I've got what I think is a pretty great conversation

with an amazing person, veterinarian, who is also a listener

and supporter of mine in the show for many years. I actually interviewed her a few years

back when I first started the podcast, or I think in year two maybe of it. So coming up,

my conversation with Dr. Jen D. Tripani, who was so thoughtful and supportive.

I actually hadn't talked to her in a while.

And when Indy was diagnosed with stage four end stage kidney disease, I texted her and asked for her insights.

And she gave them to me and then also offered to look at

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