And thank you so much for joining us once again. It is the nightly pleasures podcast week six of

2022. How are you doing? I am your host and the author of the piece that you're going to hear today,

the great night. You can call me, Daddy, you can call me Jack, you can call me what you want so long

you call me back.

Why did I ever stray from that one? I should have said it every time and every time people

would roll their eyes. They'd say, why are you doing that? It's not fun.

That's how you all sound, right? Even the ones who like me the most? There is no fun news. I really scoured it this time,

it being the internet, the news sources that I use. And I just, you know, I'm looking for something

fun to just like tell you guys and throw your guys. But like really, there's not like a lot of fun stuff going on right now. I don't think. I am trying to keep it positive and I am trying to keep it light. So I don't really have anything to update about me either. I'm doing pretty well with everything. Things are going very, very stressfully, and I feel like I'm handling it just fine.

I'm getting hit by the exact same thing that you guys are, that I'm hearing, that you guys

are sending in.

It's scary.

People don't know what to do about the situations going on in the news.

Groceries keep rapidly increasing in cost.

I know. I know.

I know.

But at the end of the day, I do get to sleep at night okay, even if I don't have a little

bit of chemical help.

And I've been doing all right with my goals, my day to day.

One thing that I can tell you guys is that Super Bowl Sunday, I just

decided I kind of had enough. And I figured that certain places would be pretty empty. So I just

took myself on a little hike, a little hiky-whiky, and I didn't figure that I'd be going that long,

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