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Hello, bienvenito.

Welcome to a brand spanking new, fresh out the oven, a delicious episode of the low-life

podcast. I'm your flaming hot and spicy, seasonally depressed, white wine drinking,

talkie finger licking, bone broth sipping, hot mess of a host, Lorenzo von Rumpf.

I'm so happy to be here with you today. God, there's no place I'd rather be than right here with my low lifers. I hope you're having a great day and a beautiful week so far. But if you're not having a good day, if you're having a bit of a shitty week right now, you're just in a weird headspace, I feel you. Same, Queen. I'm right there with you. I'm just in a bit of a weird headspace right now, you're just in a weird headspace. I feel you. Same, Quain. I'm right there with you.

I'm just in a bit of a weird headspace right now. There's several factors that affect that,

but I know for a lot of people, they're struggling with depression right now, feeling a bit anxious,

overwhelmed with the holidays. With the holidays, as beautiful and joyous as they are, they're also very stressful

for a lot of people. I'd say most people are feeling super stressed around the holidays because

there's just so much that comes with it. There's financial obligations. There's family.

There's toxic family. There are relationship breakups. There are friendship breakups that happen.

Life just can feel a bit more heavy during the

holidays. So I'm not trying to be a Debbie Downer over here, but I always keep it 100 with you. And I understand that, yes, it's a joyous time. And we love the season of Christmas. It's the season of giving. It's great. But with that, does come some stress, does come some anxiety, depression. And so the seasonal depression is a real thing. And if you're going through it right now, if you feel like you are just drowning, don't you worry, boo-boo, don't you fret. You have come to the right place. We're about to turn that frown upside down. We're going to be some light in the darkness. We have a great episode in store for you today. I'm doing a solo mission episode today.

I love these solo missions.

I didn't used to love the solo missions.

They gave me a bit of anxiety.

I didn't like doing them.

This is actually how we started the podcast like two years ago.

It was just me alone in a closet.

My gay ass went back in the closet.

I was just recording on a microphone, not knowing who the hell would even be listening, if anyone, not even my parents were listening to me. This was during the pandemic, such a weird time to be alive. Doesn't it feel like the pandemic was like 10 years ago? Sometimes it feels like that was a decade ago. Other times it feels like it was yesterday for me. But it definitely was a weird time to be alive. And so I would get on the mic, go into the closet and record

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