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Welcome to episode 777 with my return guest, my friend Jesse Perez.

If you're new, I hope you find this to be a place for honesty about all the battle.

I forgot what my spiel was there for a second. A place for honesty about all the battle. I forgot what my spiel was there for a second.

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.

I am not a therapist.

You have been warned.

We are going light again on the surveys this week.

Those of you that are regular listeners know that I've been nothing too serious,

but I've been struggling a little bit with my kind of

my mental battery. And so I'm not quite taking a vacation. I'm just kind of cutting back on the

length of the episode. You pronounce it episodes? I pronounce it episodes. I'm European. Anyway, we're going to do a few.

This one is from the light bulb moment survey, and this was filled out by Josh, and he writes,

nothing too profound, but I've been thinking this past week

about how I like, quote, being there, unquote, for my friends. But I don't really care for

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