Welcome to episode 191 with my guest Matt Oswald.

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I'm Paul Gilmartins of the Metal Illness Happy Hour.

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Before we get to the episode today with Matt, I want to read you, this is an email I got from a person who calls himself Zingo,

and they write, listen to your podcast with a partner, she was my previous guest, a partner in Antwerla,

I appreciate what you do and listen every week, it's helped me as I've fought crippling anxiety and self-doubt, really, it has.

Still, you mentioned today a support group where you met three beautiful people who felt bad about themselves,

while I appreciate that, some of us are trolls, bald, bucktoothed, four-eyed fat ass trolls.

That's fine, I've come to terms with it, I've come to terms with people thinking I'm a creep for doing no more than being.

I understand how pretty people can feel bad about themselves, but still, man, I hope they know, and Vias, us ugly as are.

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