Hello, and thank you so much for joining us once again. It is The Nightly Pleasures podcast.

I am your host and the author of the piece that you're about to hear today, The Grey Knight.

You can just call me Jack if that's a little bit too much. Yes, it is so very good to be back.

Have you been a good girl this week? I don't care. I don't care. If you have or you haven't,

you should treat yourself like you were. Everybody I know is walking wounded. They either

just were sick or just got sick or they are sick or they love someone who's sick. I know. It's awful. And you just got to keep on going.

And with all the stuff that's going on in the world right now, the last thing you need is for a

pornographic podcast host to start talking about the United States Civil War,

but don't worry, I'm talking about the one that's already happened. Relax. I have to do a

little bit of a mea-copa on this one. Normally, my poor whittle ego wouldn't allow me to do

something like this so recently after the sting, but I made fun of

Joe Rogan and David Brooks, the last week's live show, and I made fun of them for being

Head in the Sand-style conservatives who are just new information scares them, so they just

reject, reject, reject.

And, well, I have to do a little come-upance because something else that I said was that

the Battle of Gettysburg was fought over shoes.

Now, in my defense, and this will be the only defense that I give. I did learn that from a paid professional

from the state as a child in a school. That doesn't make it right, though. And I also need to say

just real quick, I am not a fan of the Civil War or any other war I find reading about troop

movements and generals to be tedious.

I find it to be as tedious as serving as an enlisted person without any of the benefits.

No, thank you.

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