Welcome to Curious with Josh Pax, start the show.

Here we are back again. Thank you guys for returning to another episode of Curious, my pod.

What a dream. I feel like I should do maybe a bit of a check-in. Is that what? Maybe? I don't know.

Is that selfish of me to want to to imagine that you're interested in what goes on in my brain

and how I'm feeling my day-to-day life? Well, you know, so be it. Listen, you're here, right?

You're not going to go through the work of finding another podcast. So listen to,

are you probably driving? It's not safe to look down at your phone. Just let this play out.

You know, take a chance. Maybe around a minute, 37, you'll be like, I really, I'm glad I stayed.

This is quite the listening experience. Anyway, I'm great. I got back from vacation last week.

I know I told you I was on a big fancy vacation because I'm a big fancy person.

And it's amazing how you come back from these vacations and you're like, I'm just, I'm a new,

I'm a new man in a new world. And I'm going to look at things through a whole new set of glasses

because I've really reset the old clock. I've put in a perspective of what's important.

And now with this newfound information, I will go forth and just pollinate the world with joy.

And then like three days and all the neuroses comes back. And all the tropes and the

pitfalls of your everyday existence just comes creeping in. And then you're like, oh, there I am.

There's Josh. That's the guy I remember. Not carefree, jovial, fun, bali-hoo, you know, Hawaii Josh.

No, this, this, this Josh, I know. Here he is. All right. We're worried about everything.

Terrified of the past. Upset about the future. Yeah. No. I mean, look, I dramatized my, my, my, my neuroses

for for the pod, you know, because the reality is I'm quasi happy. I'm relatively content. And is

that just the goal or what? I mean, I don't trust people that are overtly happy. I don't get it.

I don't trust their Instagram pages when they have affirmations and they look great and they're

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