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 Grey Knight.

You can call me Daddy.

You can call me Jack.

You can call me whatever you want so long as you keep coming on back.

How you doing?

I, uh...

I'm trying, kids. That's how I'm doing.

We're three for three. That's the exciting news, right?

Third week of the new year.

Third update, third podcast, all new material, kind of killing it with that, kind of doing

pretty okay with that part of it.

Feeling pretty good about the work that I'm putting out and everything else, but that's a,

that's about where the fun kind of ends I'm trying so hard you guys I really am just to stay in the moment to keep going

keep a positive attitude and so so, you know, sometimes I have to use humor as a coping mechanism, as do we all.

And the joke that kept running through my head before recording this week was, you know, maybe being horribly injured is the

best thing that's ever happened to you. Hear me out. Hear me out. No, Jack, we don't want you to be

injured. I agree. You don't. You care for me. You like me. Yada, yada, yada, yada. Or you just,

you know, you want me to be happy or whatever. But maybe, just maybe, me getting hurt

this time is the best thing that's ever happened to you. Because look at how productive

I'm being and on time. And that's a pretty dark joke, but I'm not sure it's wrong. So, you know, I've got,

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