All right, here we go.

Here it comes, here it comes, the big show. The big show, hey, hope you're sitting down. Here comes the big show. The big show's just about to happen. Four, three, two, one, bannap, ba-da-pap, the big show. Man, you guys lucked out. Kevin couldn't make it. So that is, man, that's like waking up on a Monday morning and it's a snow day, isn't it?

I mean, just finding out that Kevin isn't here to just get in the way of all my incredible jokes.

It's just, a solo show, a show of just Hank rambling on and on and on about absolutely nothing.

Oh, my God, happy Thursday morning, everybody.

This has got to feel good. It's just, oh, man, it's like a cleansing of the palate to not have

Kevin here just, you know, babbling on about absolutely nothing. When I've got poignant,

thoughtful things to say, things that'll change the world,

that'll change your minds about, you know, your own realities, just stuff like that that I'm

going to come at you today. Just some really profound shit about to happen here because Kevin's not

here to just to take us down to a lower level,

right? I mean, just Kevin's always after that low-hanging fruit and I'm always reaching for the

stars. But anyway, no, his kid's sick or something like that so he couldn't make it. And I wish he could

make it because I got to tell you, sometimes these solo shows are hard.

It's like, and I've said this when I've done these shows a million times, it's just me talking,

you just got to jump in the pool and start swimming and hope to God you make it to the other side.

At one point, you're not really thinking about it. It's just this stream of consciousness. I've got some things to talk about, and you get into a sort of a rhythm. Like, I just pretend I'm on the phone to somebody who doesn't talk a lot, and I've got to carry the conversation. And I, like, I'm trying to avoid work, so I want to, you know, call somebody. I do that a lot. By the way, I talk on the phone quite a bit. And a lot of the time, I talk on the phone just because I want to avoid half in responsibility, work, doing anything, you know, that I'm supposed to be doing. I, like, have a bunch of work or a bunch of editing or something that I need to be doing,

and then I tell myself, well, fuck, I should call Jake. I should probably, you know, touch base with Jake, just see what's going on. I should call Kevin. You know, I don't need to talk to Jake. I don't need to talk to Kevin. I don't need to talk to Christian. I don't need to talk to Greg or any of these people that I call on a regular basis, I don't probably need to talk to them as much as I do.

I'm just trying to avoid work. You know, it's the same reason I take a people that I call on a regular basis, I don't probably need to talk to them as much as I do.

I'm just trying to avoid work. It's the same reason I take a bath in the middle of the afternoon sometimes. It's just like, yeah, fuck I should take a bath. You know, I should clean myself up. And, you know, I might as well, if I'm going to be in the tub, I might as well, you know, listen to a book. Might as well sit and listen to a book for an hour, hour and a half and just sit in the tub.

And if I get to be in the tub, it might as well be a bubble bath. I might

as well take a bubble bath, right? So I tell myself, because I'm trying to avoid work or I'm,

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