Hey, what's happening? Mike Schmidt, guys. How are you? This is not a podcast. It's not an episode.

It's just me talking to a microphone telling you what's going on right now.

This is going to sound weird. I'm still sick. I think you can probably tell in my voice or whatever.

I don't have, my fever has broken and kind of gone away.

I still got congestion, and you can hear like green goo and fucking phlegm in my throat.

It sounds like I chugged a gallon of milk.

But more concerning, to me, anyway, as I'm having some kind of cognitive stuff happening

in that I'm not, like I can't, I can't pay attention.

And I know that's, believe me, I know coming from me, that sounds ridiculous, all right?

But I can always sit here and talk and then just kind of and still keep going and then

stitch it all together and make it work in a good way.

But I'm finding that I can't this time.

I don't know why.

Like, I'm not joking.

I was watching TV even.

Like I'll have something on. Uh, I watch Top Chef or

whatever. And all of a sudden, it seems like 15 minutes goes by. And I don't, I don't remember

anything I watched. I don't know where I'm at. Like I, I zone out. Like, I don't, it's not even

like I'm daydreaming. I can't even explain what it is, but it's like

all of a sudden I'll be watching it and I think I'm watching it and absorbing it. And then I'll be

like, what happened? Like I don't even know what's going on. I'm so I had to rewind. You know, it took me

two and a half hours to watch an hour long show. I don't know why that is. So, so then I can, you can only imagine the nightmare that became as I sat here and I tried to record.

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