Hello everybody and welcome to the Here We Are Podcast. Thank you for listening. Thank you so much. You guys keep me going. I have been in a bit of a funk, a bit of a rut. I don't know what happened. I think it's a seasonal thing. I got burnt out, I've been really busy putting together the stand-up science stuff, and I just kind of was burnt out, but I just wanted to turn off my brain, started binge watching some TV. Oh man, that does not help me feel better. I guess it works for some people, but my brain

needed a rest of some kind.

I just wanted to stop thinking for a little while.

Turned on the TV, fell into it, gotten a spiral of laziness that I've had a hard

time snapping myself back out of and getting productive again and so I hope any of you going through that sort of thing is this time

a year it happens a lot our brains kind of go into hibernation mode sometimes.

And I hope you're managing it well.

You're not alone.

I'm there with you.

I'm working through it.

I feel like I'm kind of on my way out.

I think I'm, I think the funk has peaked or dipped. I don't know what the right way of saying

it is. It's had its most intense amount of funkness, none of this sounds correct. But I'm on my way

past it and I'm starting to get the ball rolling and getting some momentum going again and this podcast helps me so much

because I gotta put these out each week it keeps me motivated keeps me learning so I'm thankful that I get to do this.

I've constructed a life for myself that keeps me stimulated even when I don't feel like doing anything at all,

even when I'd rather just sit around and binge watch television

and feel like a lazy bum. I still have to have to do this and stay stimulated and learn and research and I'm always grateful for it after

the fact even when I don't necessarily feel like doing it in the moment.

It's so rewarding and really just expands my conscious experience of this world

expands my mind and just endlessly fascinating stuff and it's so rewarding to know that I have so many great

listeners like you guys.

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