Hello and thank you for joining us so much again. I am your host and the author of the piece you're going to hear this week, The Grey Knight, and you can call me Jack.

Some of you are calling me Daddy a whole lot more these days, which feels fantastic.

I've talked about how I'm trying to come out of this major depressive episode that, that, you know, basically conflated

with COVID very nicely. And how I'm just trying to get back to things, back to my day-to-day

life, back to routines, back to hoping, and Aedonia. And I talk about video games a lot because,

well, they're fun, they're easy.

I enjoy them.

And a lot of you, even if you don't play video games, you seem to enjoy it a little bit.

So I have to tell you, as far as the combat against Aedonia goes, right?

The feeling of, I'm not taking pleasure from things, so I'm not going to do things that bring me pleasure, and that whole vicious cycle.

I have to say, these little games called Survivors, that's the genre name that I'm giving them, based on vampire survivors,

they're popping up left, right, and center.

And man, they're so good at getting me out of my funk.

Just in the day-to-day.

Well, like the hour to hour, they're so good at getting me to reset.

I've known for a long time that it's pretty good if somebody goes through a large amount of trauma to get some Tetris in their hands, to get something beneath their thumbs and to get their mind occupied with repetitive tasks that aren't focusing on the trauma. And this makes a lot of sense to me. If you get a burn, right, the first

a treatment is after making sure, you know, the skin is clean, everything, is a cold compress, right?

The idea is stop the temperature from increasing, get everything down, not just to the normal level, as quick as

possible, but beneath it for just a little while at least, 15, 20, 25 minutes. Depends on who you read,

where you read. And that's just, that makes total sense, right? The hot, the longer it's hot,

the worse the burns is going to be. And the sooner the cold, the less damage that'll ultimately be done.

Makes total sense. I think that's why it's medical advice that most people, even gym coaches,

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