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Welcome to episode 773 with my friend Derek.

My name is Paul.

My last name is Gil Martin, and I'm the host and producer of this podcast. The website for our show is metalpod.com, and metalpod also the social media.

Handled that you can follow us at.

If you're new, this is a place for honesty about all the battles in our heads,

from 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, and I'm not a therapist.

I'm a jackass that used to cook chicken on basic cable.

And I toured around the country telling dick jokes.

Does that qualify me to talk about mental health?

I think it does, actually.

If you have not yet subscribed to the podcast via whatever your podcast player is, it would be

awesome if you did that. And to download as many episodes as you feel comfortable,

is that me respecting your boundaries? Because that helps us get advertisers.

Advertisings are, or advertisers are, there's a lot of competition for them these days.

And there's a little part of me that just wants to kind of go ad-free because while the podcast is underwater financially,

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