Yes. Hello, my friends. It's the Robcast. It's episode 388. And the name of this episode is

calling from the porch. In this episode, I'm going to tell you a story. The story is like a minute

long. That's it. That's this episode, me telling you this minute long story. I love telling this story.

It's about something that happened a couple of months ago. It is so enjoyable to tell. I've told a

couple different friends. And I mean, this story is a banger. And it's also looking like perhaps partway through this

story that's a banger, I may, there's a slight chance, interrupt myself in the middle of the

story to give you some backstory on the story. And we'll see how that goes. Otherwise, that's all this episode is.

Me just telling you a very short story. Speaking of stories, my new audiobook is out on my site.

It's called a feisty and sobering guide to doing what you love and also still somehow paying the

bills. You've heard two earlier parts of it on earlier recent episodes

of the Robcast. There are 11 parts total. It's lots and lots of hours, and I'm so thrilled.

It's now available. It'll be on Patreon forever, forever's, until the cows come home.

And this was a new experience to create something and then be reading it as I'm creating it.

And the Patreon experience where people are interacting with it which shaped where the book

even went. Shout out to all my Patreon peoples. What an experience. In many ways it has changed.

Like you could do something for 20 years and then you find your way into a new way of doing it.

It is shaped the way I even think about what a book even is.

It was more like this experience that was also like a confessional.

These stories that are in this audio book about honestly how difficult it's been trying to find my way

and I wouldn't have told these stories five or ten years ago because I part of uh you know as a as a kid we learn how to

stay safe in the world and for me it was like you got to make it look easy that's one of the

ways you stay safe um but to tell how not easy it's been um so that's why i say this has had like

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