Hello, and thank you so much for listening once again to the Nightly Pleasures podcast.

I am your host and the author of The Peace you're about to hear The Great Night, but you can call me Jack.

How's it going? I am trying to come out of my funk, and you guys all like little updates when I can give them.

So here it is. You guys like it when I put some new music up, so I put some new music. And I do mean like new music. Probably some artists you guys have never heard of before because I sure shit hadn't either. That's on the blog. And that's pretty enjoyable for those of you who like to listen to that sort of thing.

I can tell that my optimism and my humanity are starting to restore little things that did not cheer me up at all the last couple of months.

Having the last few weeks been fantastic.

Let me give you some small examples.

I got a big old thing of fast food, something I call a Megarito, because there's burritos,

and then there's burros, and then there's megaritos. Because why just take the concept of a burrito, if you're an American,

why not take several burritos and put them together in one concoction in dish and serve it as though it is not an obscene, just regal amount of food. And this is probably just a little too specific, but I personally,

over the last couple of years, trying to heal up Mr. Thumbs and get into better shape and all the

rest. I've had a lot of trouble, if you're a long time listening to the podcast, as you know.

And one of the things that really slowed me down over these last couple of years is the

doc said stop eating beans. Beans. The magical fruit. And I actually had to do so, and it actually,

you know, it went much better. Beans are very low on the list for a lot

of things that people have to give up, but I don't really have a sweet tooth and I love

burritos. I love ham and beans. This is quite the thing for me. They asked me to give up

chocolate and alcohol, and I, by and large, did for entirely chocolate and I kept booze to a bare minimum. And I did this for a long time.

So I got a burrito the other day, a megarito, and it had, you know, all the things that I was

expecting on it. It was going to have protein. It was going to have cheese. It was going to have

lots and lots of chili salsa. And it was going to have cheese, and it was going to have lots and lots of chili salsa,

and it was going to have French fries and fried foods and not so good for your stomach.

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