Before we start, I have a huge announcement to make. My book, Your Special, Advice for Humans,

is finally out and ready for you to enjoy after I spent two years putting my love and soul

into it. It's a colorful book full of my animated characters, teaching you, the reader,

some lessons in life advice that you'd be better off hearing and being reminded about than if not.

I'll be talking a little bit about how this book came to be and how it comforted me throughout tough times in my own life later in this podcast episode.

But if my videos ever brought you any joy whatsoever, I'd really appreciate it if you picked up a copy.

You could get it at your local Barnes & Noble, your local Target, your local Walmart,

and of course on websites like Amazon or any website that sells books. You go to my website,

your special book. store. That's the letters you, letter R, and then special book.

Store.

Link is in the description of this podcast episode.

Wow. Okay. Yeah, I'm back. Um, I'm sorry. Uh, I suppose for, let me fix it. This thing is rat. Um, dude, I, I'm sorry. Uh, I suppose for, let me fix it. This thing is rat. Um, um, dude, I, I, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry this podcast has zero structure.

I missed you.

How are you doing?

What's been going on in your life?

I'm happy to be checking back in a little bit here um

podcasting is tough man it's really tough as it as it uh turns out um it requires a freaking

team you know and it requires a lot of planning.

And I feel like this year, or at least this past year, I just got on top of like all my other shit.

So the focus has been elsewhere, you could say, and I didn't want to be pumping out bad podcast

episodes. But I have a few things on my mind that I thought talking about today would be

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