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Masteman David Shoemaker.

Welcome to the Mask Man Show. I have a cold, so apologies for my weird voice.

There's a great, there's a stretch in my life back in my last podcast where I would know I was getting sick because my mom would listen to my podcast and tell me.

Are you saying now that your mom doesn't listen to this podcast?

She just doesn't comment on my voice as much as she used. I just thought you were implying that I turned her off so much. She's like I can't listen to this mass band show.

Yeah, no she likes it. She likes Dan St. Germain and she's a big fan of Steve Kazee, but she doesn't listen to the Dave Schilling episodes.

Totally out. I'm a huge heel in the shoemaker household.

No, who knows? Maybe this will be better for my career to have a different voice.

All right, we've had a lot of big things happen this week, at least, you know, making the checklist.

I think that the biggest thing that happened so far today was when one of my coworkers

emailed me to let me, to just send me a paragraph quoting Peter Thiel from an article that came out today.

Are you ready for this?

Yes. I'm springing this on you.

Okay.

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