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I am not Joe, I'm Tom, and with me is Joe. Hello, it is still weird not doing the intro,

but I'm working through it. Everybody's going to have to bear with me as people have noted in the

last couple episodes that I kind of sound like shit. It's because I've acquired a fun case of

Laren Gytus, and the doctor is like, well, you should just try not to talk or drink or smoke and

look, I literally live to do all those things, so I'm just going to have to wait for it to run its

course. You're doing like a self-hatred speed run right now? Yeah, I mean, at least it doesn't hurt.

Yesterday was really fucking bad. I ordered food because I'm leaving for like a week,

so I don't want to buy groceries, they'll sit there and be bad. So I've been ordering food almost

every day, which is fucking wasteful. I mean, at least it's a fort, it's not like ordering from

Uber Eats or something where it's super expensive, but still it's wasteful. But the guy couldn't find

my apartment, so he called me on the phone, and I literally could not speak to him. So I had to

text him like how to find it, because I could not speak on the phone. I think part of it is also

winter in Yuruvan is just awful. I mean, winter in Armenia isn't great in general, but in Yuruvan,

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