Hello and thank you so much for joining us once again.

It is the Matthew Pleasures podcast.

I'm your host and the author of The Peace you're about to hear today.

The Grey Night, you can call me in check.

A little bit short of an introduction than we've had lately because it is the holidays.

And I've given you everything I know.

This is the time of year that I take for myself and I, you know, the trees up,

the lights are nice, the cat lays underneath it. I allow myself a proper space heater

cranked up, a proper house heat, a little bit beneath the space heater.

I allow, I'm about to allow myself to just drink and drink and drink.

I'm doing very, very well with not drinking and exercising and eating quite well.

I'm about to enter a week of just eating whatever the fuck I want,

drinking like a fish, smoking like a chimney.

I mean, the whole thing.

I really have been quite a good boy these last some months, and I know that I've earned,

and I know that you think that I have, and if you don't, well, then shame on you because,

yes, I have.

Oh!

But I've gone through my hard period after going through a deep depression.

And let me tell you, coming out the other side of it, I feel utterly fantastic.

It feels so good to have this earned.

A lot of years in the past, I would get to this

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