Welcome to Rising Anxieties.

I'm Marianne Sullivan.

My anxieties are very high these days, as I'm sure are the anxieties of many of you out

there.

And actually, I decided to do something totally different this week.

I'm not going to talk about the industry because I started looking at these industry publications

and it was just like torture.

Not that I don't usually, well, I don't usually enjoy looking at it.

I enjoyed talking about them and being sarcastic about them, but looking at them is dreary.

Anyway, it's my birthday, so I get to do what I want.

And after all, you don't have to listen.

So it's really all fine, I think.

And don't forget, we're a podcast, where are you two, please subscribe and hit like wherever you listen.

I'm supposed to say that first.

And I'm recording this on Monday, which is my birthday.

And I don't know where we're going to be as country, as a world as whatever, on Tuesday, which was when this will go up.

So I don't know.

But it is my, this is important in the context of what I wanted to say.

It is my 76th birthday.

And I'm wearing my necklace that Jasmine made me, which is made up of 76 trombones. She's very clever, you know. What can I say? All right, anxiety. It's something we are all familiar with these days. There is, after all, a war going on.

Some people seem to be oblivious to it.

Most do not.

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