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 going to hear today, The Great Night. You can call me Daddy. You can call me Jack. Just always call me back. Don't love me and leave me. How are you doing? It is December time. It is Xmas time. I am very excited for it. I have been working hard these last couple of months and I've got a great month ahead of you, planned ahead for you guys and content wise and all the rest. It should be very exciting. Normally I don't like to pitch it too much, especially lately, these last couple years, I haven't really been thrown myself at it as hard as I could, acknowledged.

But I wanted to make all of my patrons feel very, very special, and just thank them.

Everybody who went along for the ride, every new gal, of course,

that stupid biblical verse.

You know the one.

There's only a couple in there.

The one biblical verse about the story about the orchard,

you know what I'm talking about?

It's okay if you don't.

It's always one of those kind of a head scratcher

from me. They say that you're supposed to read the Bible in kind of like, like its analogies

and like its references, essentially ancient memes. But there's one story about this guy

who owns an orchard, and he's giving everybody a coin for their daily wage.

So if you show up in the morning, there's too much fruit to pick.

So he's all like, okay, well, tell your friends they can come in the afternoon and still get a coin.

And the morning workers are like, huh?

But then, as evening comes by, there's still too much fruit to pick for everybody,

so everybody who shows up towards the end of the day is still going to get a coin for the day.

And the workers are like, now, the workers who have been there since the morning, like,

now hold on a goddamn second.

We don't even have those words yet at this point.

But just one non-cotton-picking minute because that's a new world crop.

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