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greeting's to one and all

This is Dr. Ferr. Chris Ryan also known as Dr. Ferr to some of my friends. I don't really know why.

I think on you call me Dr. Ferr by mistake once and everybody laughs. So they keep calling me Dr. Ferr.

The only people who have ever called me Dr. Ryan with any seriousness or people who were interviewing me.

I think that made them feel important and they thought they were being polite to me. But as you've probably heard me say before, having been married to a medical doctor for years, I always felt embarrassed when people call me Dr.

I'm not a fucking doctor. I don't deliver babies. I've never saved anyone's life. I've never reached in and rearranged somebody's innards.

So as far as I'm concerned, Dr. that's a bunch of bull shit. The only time my friends ever called me Dr. was the guy I used to play poker with and they always called me Dr.

They only called me Dr. when they were taking my money.

Thank you very much, Dr.

You know, as they raked the chips toward them and away from me.

So anyway, if you're ever here, anybody calling me Dr. just know that I'm cringing inside even though I understand they're trying to be nice.

This is going to be one of these fly by the CD or pants episodes. I'm home alone, which doesn't happen very often.

And I just wanted to say hi. Just wanted to reach out and talk to you a little bit. I wish I wish you would talk back. I wish I could hear you.

I do hear you when you send in your snippets, which you can send to that Chris Ryan at gmail.com.

It's funny. I used to have like special email addresses for those things and over the years. I've just, you know, I was doing that to like kind of set up some sort of a filtration system so that my personal email address wasn't just out there for the world to to have and to abuse.

But as times gone on, I've come to trust you. And I don't know. I think I think the audience has changed. I feel like people who would abuse something like that or who just, you know, trolls or whatever.

They've all gotten either bored or they've found someone else to go after whatever. I'm not saying it was always wonderful. But in the last few years, I really don't get any kind of bullshit.

Whatever emails I get are from good people. And yeah, so that's my actual email address. That Chris Ryan at gmail.com.

So I can't promise you I'll answer your email if you send me one. But that is my email address. And it will be in my inbox. And it might sit there for years and years as things sometimes do. But anyway, I'm just laying it out there.

It occurred to me the other day I was driving down the road and I was listening to a podcast. It was a really good podcast, by the way. It was broken record by Rick Rubin.

Rick Rubin, as you may know, is a music producer, a really interesting cat. He just came out with a book about creativity, which was ghost written by my friend Neil Strauss. And anyways, listen to Rick Rubin. He interviews musicians on this podcast.

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