Hello, everyone, and welcome to Decoding TV, a podcast about television.

I'm David Chen, joining me as usual as Patrick Lepick. Patrick,

Happy New Year.

How has your holiday season been, sir?

I haven't gotten sick, which maybe I've cursed myself, but I'd be cursing it at the end of the vacation rather than the beginning.

So I'm going to take that as a victory.

Given the...

Do you think you had this super flu that's going around?

I know you were terribly ill.

I think I did.

Well, I got this very cryptic message.

I don't know if I shared this on the podcast, right?

About like, I got sick and usually I post about it on Instagram and somebody DM'd me and they said, David, there's this European flu going around and it's very strange. Basically, what it does is you get hit with waves of fatigue. Like you wake up one morning and then you think, oh, it's great. I'm fine. I'm better. And then literally like later on in the day you get hit with a wave of fatigue. And then the next day you feel the same way. You're like, everything's great. I'm fine. I'm better. And then literally, like, later on in the day, you get hit with a wave of fatigue. And then the next day, you feel the same way. You're like, everything's okay.

And then you get hit with an even bigger wave of fatigue. And I'm like, oh, that sounds really weird. I hope I don't get that. That sounds very pleasant. Literally, that's exactly what happened to me. Literally for like two to three weeks.

I mean, you know,

I usually like go to the gym every other day for the last year.

I have not worked out for like three and a half weeks

because I'm just like, I've not wanted to leave the house

because I've been, you know, in really, really bad shape from the flu.

But you have not gotten anything, right, Patrick? Well, no, no, not. And

even I'm a paranoid. I became a, you know, my brother had a child over the last couple of weeks

and trying to get all the, so became an uncle and trying to make sure that we're being, you know,

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