Hello, and thank you so much for joining us once again. It is The Nightly Pleasures Podcast. I'm your host and the author of the piece you're about to hear after some rambling. My name is Jack. Hi, how you doing? Boy, we're really moving towards the end of the year, huh? Pretty quick. It's coming up. I'm pretty excited for it. I haven't had

mashed potatoes in a while, and I'm just so excited to make them. They're simple, they're creamy,

they're buttery. Yum, yum, yum, yum. Going to make a duck again this year. Very excited

for American Thanksgiving, only a couple weeks away, so it's on my mouth. My mouth's already watering, just thinking about it. Ah! And you're thinking, I wish I could come to. Yeah, you do. You do. It's really tasty. And then the cat gets to eat so much duck. Oh, you know, it's a shame because I know you want to eat it too.

But it's very, very good.

I think we're going to do the whole thing, make the gravy out of the giblets again,

the walnut cranberry casserole with the green beans.

Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum.

I've been eating a lot more produce lately.

You know, the cost of goods is going up for everybody.

The cost of food is really unusual.

Eggs will be $4 a dozen, one week, $2 a dozen the next, and $6 a dozen the week after that.

What's going on? Don't know. So there's a lot of, there's a lot of shuffle, you know? There's a lot of make and do. There's a lot of making new plans. And, well, I kind of excel at that, to be perfectly honest with you. So I don't know what it is, but lately I've been getting real lucky with

cans of produce, and you can get a whole can of produce. And I try and get them with no salt,

but you can't always get that. But like an entire can, which is about a pound, you can still

get them for 50 cents, you know, if you get them on sale. So I've been eating just, I've discovered that I don't really,

I don't, I don't know what it is about my tongue and healing and whatever else is going on with me as I,

as I move through life. But I just now love opening up like a can of produce and just chucking it

into my mouth. Just literally, I know it's not sexy, but just deal with it. It's the first of

several things you're not going to find sexy. Just deal with it. Uh, I just drink the produce.

Now I let the liquid out, but I just open up the can, wrink-wrink-wra-wrink-wrink-rinker, put the tin in the garbage immediately, because I know I'm going to eat the whole can. Why would I not eat the whole can? Look at the size of me. Of course I'm going to eat the whole goddamn thing. It's a lot of these cans of produce only have like 150 calories in them total.

Of course I'm going to eat the whole can. How could I not? And so I'll just drink them,

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