You know I've recorded hundreds of podcasts hundreds. I'm not sure if including

interviews I'm over a thousand yet or not but it's entirely plausible and I

still get a little nervous every single time

right before I hit record.

There's something, I don't know,

something tough about a microphone. It's so non-responsive compared to talking

to another person. Hey everybody, Mike McCarg here. The internet calls me science Mike If it's your first time listening to this program,

this is not the normal format. We've usually got a theme song and a whole stick.

But this week I just wanted to talk with everybody.

I'm back in a busy season of travel. So falls for me, excuse me, the season of fall is for me a time where I'm on the road a lot and

You know today's my first day home and in about a week and it gets hard to to do the whole

normal stick with the with the polls and the questions and the research so I just I thought this week we just talk just to

to to stay together if you will and this may be something I need to do a little bit throughout September and October and even November in order to keep the show coming out regularly.

And Greg's going to be super mad at me because he made me swear I

wouldn't do any more episodes where I released it without him getting a chance to edit it, but I'm recording this this morning

and going to release it right after it's done. So Greg, I apologize for going rogue and releasing a podcast without you getting to make me sound

smarter than I am. But gosh there's just so there's so much going on. So I've got a lot of travel coming up and I'll tell you about some of those

dates in a second because I'd love to see you. I'm in the final stages of working on my second book, so wow.

Most intense on my second book, so wow.

Most intense travel season coinciding with the last push to get manuscript for book two out the door.

And I am feeling the stress, y'all.

I mean, I really am.

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