Here we go. We're starting. By the way, I'm starting over. I recorded for about 10 minutes,

and it was absolute trash. And so I finally just reached a point where I thought, you know what?

You should start over. Just start recording again. Why, if you know it's garbage,

wad up the garbage, put the garbage in the garbage can, and start over. Don't subject

the listeners of this incredible, thoughtful, informational, philosophical, entertaining,

often hysterical podcast.

Don't make them listen to garbage.

Give them the award-winning top-shelf content that they expect week in and week out.

Hit the pause button, start over, and give the people what they deserve.

And what you all deserve is the incredible, thought-provoking.

I've run out of expletives. No, ways to describe this as a fantastic, fantastic, incredible

award-winning podcast. I've run out of ways to lie about what this actually is. This dumpster

fire, this is what it is. That's just,

it is what it is. And today I'm alone. So it's going to be even a bigger dumpster fire, a bigger

mess than normal because I'm alone. I don't even have anybody, Kevin's not here to keep me on

track. So I'm alone. I had sat down to record the patrons-only episode of the show and realize,

today it's Wednesday, September 3rd. And so it's the day before the fourth, which is when

this will come out. You understand how numbers work. I don't know why I'm explaining that to you.

But typically,

lately, we've been recording one or two nights in advance. And this week, it hadn't worked out.

And so I thought, well, we'll record tonight, Wednesday, the third, and it'll come out on

the fourth. No big deal. But then I realized I have a Zoom, a live Zoom call with the patrons at patreon.com

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