Welcome to episode 625 with my guest Evan Shad.

I'm Paul, I forgot my name for a second.

I'm Paul Gilmarten.

This is the medal in this happy hour place for honesty about all the battles in our heads

for medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive

negative thinking.

This show is not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling.

I'm not a therapist, not a doctor's office.

It is more like a waiting room.

That doesn't suck.

The website for this podcast is metalpod.com and metalpod is also the social media handle

that you can follow us at.

I hope you survived the holidays.

Had your still standing, I'm always nervous when I come back from a break in January and

I've put together a new opening montage and I'm always afraid that it's not going to

be good enough that people will be like, he's just repeating himself.

And shout out by the way to Patreon subscribers.

I put a little test version of it out there and got feedback from them before I decided

on the final montage and I feel good about it.

I feel like maybe I'm worthy as a human being based on that one minute snippet that I put

together and people validating me.

Is that unhealthy?

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