Hello and thank you so much for joining us once again. It is the Nightly Pleasures podcast episode number 116.

As you can hear, there's tons of background noises going on, and I'm yelling to talk into the mic. Apologies for that.

The reason why is because I'm talking with my cat on my lap, and she's all sick. She's been been sick today so she just crawled onto my

lap right before I was supposed to record this and I didn't turn anything

off because she's had a little bit of a sick day so we're just petty kitty

before we get into the episode today just want to thank everybody for all of your

kind words all of your support and everything else that you've been

giving me lately. It's been a lot of fun doing this. I didn't want to say anything before we

started out, but basically since November, this has been kind of season zero. I want to move to more

of a seasonal system so that there's just a couple of weeks off in between large blocks of the podcast for you guys.

So it'll basically be like three months on and then a couple weeks off throughout the year.

And this has been going really well. You guys have been really supportive and really very kind.

I just want to say thank you so much for all of the kind words.

It's been a real rigamarole. The second thing is I just wanted to give a real quick update.

I am taking my health and my position very seriously because I so desperately want to get up

and out there and meet you guys and do live shows and expand

the podcast and the fan base and all the rest I very much want to do that and one one

thing that I'm very proud of is since the end of last year basically the the last half of

last year I really changed my my wicked ways when it came to to just alcohol consumption and eating out, ordering in.

What I did go ahead and do is by and large, stop that.

Get ordering out, eating in, take out down to once or twice a week, literally once or twice a week or less,

and get booze down to about the same.

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