Well, friends, the time has finally come.

It is time for me to enter the witness protection program once and for all, and to begin my life as a desert hermit.

I need to retire from society and just not be around others and not be anywhere where I can

be found or recognized anymore. Because this past weekend weekend I had my first event since the face

situation. And my face indeed looks, it looks very strange. I look like a very strange person.

But this was a private event where I was the keynote entertainment.

And so, of course, I'm not going to cancel that. They did not really have entertainment if I

wasn't there. This was St. Francis Church in Frisco, Texas, wonderful, amazing place. And I'm not, I'm not going to cancel on

these nice people. So I decided to just, you know what, I was like, I decided to engage in some

positive thinking. I decided to live out the advice that I'm always telling you guys on this podcast. I thought,

you know what? Why am I assuming that the worst will happen? Why would I assume that?

You know, I've seen some some great wisdom from ancient texts, by which I mean TikTok,

about, you know, like, why do we always assume that, like, you know, the worst thing is going to happen? Why don't we assume the best?

And I even saw, I really did get this from TikTok, I saw the advice to, you know, write down your intention, like, write out a vision

of how great it could possibly be. And I wrote out, you know, I go to this event and,

and I just breeze through it. And I actually wrote, I wrote, you know, and I see pictures of myself. And they're really not that bad. I mean, I've, I've mastered a really iconic pose,

even with my face messed up. You know, I just, I have mastered this. And it's, it's just like this

very iconic way of presenting myself. So none of that happened. I take back everything I ever said

about positive thinking. Everyone on TikTok is wrong. I mean, it's just all, anything that has to do

with positive thinking or imagining positive outcomes.

I'm here to say, you guys, it's probably going to be worse than you think.

It's going to be terrible.

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