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without further ado I welcome to this very podcast through the miracle of Riverside

none other than

Andy McCarthy.

Rich, how are you?

Good, Andy.

I'm feeling a little better than last night.

I just had to, uh, I couldn't take it.

I didn't tweet any takeaway, I didn't tweet any takeaway I didn't post any takeaway I just went

went to bed and started the day and knew it's still really depressing and frustrating but

oh man it was painful it was yeah little did I know that watching the Mets get

their butts kicked was going to be the highlight but it certainly turned out

that way and I pretty much had the same approach that you did I wrote two tweets

And then I thought they were too snarly so

I decided not to put him up and like try to sleep on it and then of course I slept on it and I was even more aggravated by the whole thing this morning. So managed to get a rant out first thing.

And that's because, Rich, I needed to improve my mood

so I could go to the New Jersey Department of Motivational. improve my

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