Okay, now this is kind of a hodgepodge Roma I'm putting together here.

I'm going to talk a little while and then the second part of this is the video Roma

that I made for subscribers to the podcast this month, I recorded a few days ago.

I do that every month and so if you want to see me saying these things,

I don't know why that would matter really but that's a special perk for people

who support the podcast on my website.

So if you want to tune into these video Roma's, like the one that you're going to hear in a little while,

and you want to see it visually, you can go to my website, chrisryanphd.com,

that chrisryan.com or tangentially speaking.com, same site, three different URLs and you can sign up there.

Before I get into that though, I wanted to comment on a few things that have happened in the last few days

and also throw in a little music.

So let's see what's happened. I went down, I drove down to Austin,

see some friends down there, I had a buddy, I have a buddy whose ex-partner died unexpectedly a few weeks ago

and he wanted to go down for her memorial and I thought that would be an opportunity for a good road trip.

So the two of us took Scarlett Jovansen and drove down to Austin. I have some friends in Austin that I hung out with

while he was dealing with that situation and then we road tripped back up.

So that was interesting, good to get out on the road again with Scarlett.

Good to have a navigator, he's a funny dude, my buddy, he would sort of Google towns as we went through them

and read about the history of the town. Most of them, there was no history at all, the history.

I remember one place, the history amounted to the fact that a tornado had touched down there 15 years ago

and fucked up with a bunch of mobile homes. That was about it, that's what that place is, famished for.

I think I was post, was that post-Texas or was that, no I think that was the place in New Mexico where we stopped for a horrible barbecue.

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