this is a headgum podcast it's true i'm leaving hello and welcome to episode

for podcast but outside episode 207 so cole is um leaving the show and he first told me this about five seconds ago yeah uh the first time you

audience is hearing this was the first time andrew heard it um no i came no no he came to andrew

he told me five and a half years ago he said in five and a half years i'm going to leave this show

and i said okay it's like almost what a fortune teller tells

you the day you're going to die. Cole basically did that the first time we recorded. That's true.

Yeah, look, in a nutshell, I've had, this has been an incredible five and a half, almost six years

that I've been doing this. But the reality is I'm a little too spread

thin in terms of my schedule and my, I'm involved in a handful of other projects that are

exciting for me. It's all behind the scenes. Big hands. Big hands. I'm saying a handful. I'm

showing how big the projects are.

Yeah.

They're huge.

And I wish it could be more, less vague than that.

But I, I, that's just where he's at.

That's just where I'm at.

I can't really talk much about it.

And, you know, I've been kind of doing all of the work for a little bit, but, you know, for a long time it was in the opposite direction,

was Cole was doing a lot. Like, it's gone through various phases, but lately it's been hard to find times to record,

and I've been doing a lot of the work, and Cole's just kind of like maybe, you know, this show would be better off without him.

Yeah.

And ultimately, I think ultimately this decision is for the show because I have been holding back

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