Welcome back to the peripheral. First Thanks First, the Patreon is back up and going. Thank you all for donating to me. It's very nice and you make this podcast, add free. At one point, I'd reached out to a few therapy advertisers, but all of them wanted me to

sign contracts. None of them would do a one-off here and there. So I just said, forget it. I got

Patreon. Nobody's got time to listen to ads. Since the last episode, I've started using

noxidil on my receding hairline, so thank you, Blue,

for the pro tips.

I'm definitely using them.

On this episode, I speak to Stephen from the podcast, This Is Adalting.

It's about suicide.

Stephen asked me to give a warning at the beginning of the show about wrist cutting.

He actually shares a story about his girlfriend that bothered me more than his actual description of his attempt.

So just wanted to put that out there.

I know this can be a dark topic for some.

I promise you that I have a bunch more light-hearted episodes coming up

to mix it up with some of these more dark episodes.

So I promise you there is light.

Introduce yourself along with your podcast.

Sure.

My name is Stephen.

I never know what to say when I'm told to introduce myself.

I am, you know, I live in North Carolina.

It's about as far as I'll go.

No problem.

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