Radio Mano, Papa Tchango.

Radio Manoata

Hello ladies and gentlemen.

I'm back after a long silence.

I apologize for the skipped week.

Here's the deal.

I'm coming to you from Northern California.

I know those of you who follow this podcast with any sort of precision know that I was

in Thailand last time I said hello and intending to be in Thailand for some time.

A close friend of ours was involved in a pretty horrific accident and I got a call from

her grandmother and she was in the hospital.

She was in surgery and it was pretty clear that at best she was going to be recovering

for quite a while both physically and psychologically just out of respect for her privacy.

I'm not going to say anything else about the nature of the accident but it was pretty

bad and complicated.

So, onion, I jumped on a plane and flew back to LA and got the van from Oliver who had

installed a whole new house electrical system in my absence which is beautiful.

I've got a couple lithium-iron batteries now and another solar panel and so that's all

checked out and we drove up to Northern California to be with our friend and take some pressure

off for parents and basically just you know it's such a luxury to have the kind of life

where you can sort of move around and you know write a book occasionally and have a bunch

of very generous fucking amazing people listen to a podcast and send you 5 or 10 or 20 or 30 bucks a month

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