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mad. It's skeptical. It's political. And there is no welcome, Matt. Today is Thursday, December 19th, and I hope you guys are doing well.

As you could tell, Tom is not introducing the show this week.

Tom is still taking care of his wife.

She is having a real hard time, and Tom is trying to take care of her in a whole household

and having a real rough time, especially at the holidays, with a lot of things going on with Haley in a very sick condition.

And so he has been off of many podcasts. If you follow any of the podcast, he wasn't on citation need earlier this week. I don't think he was on dear old dads either. He hasn't been on cog diss in a couple weeks. Tom certainly would love to hear from you if you're a fan

of the show and you want to wish Tom well. You can always send him a message dissonance.podcast at gmail.com or you can make a

comment if you're a patron on this episode in Patreon. Tom will certainly see that. With the way things shook out this month,

we are going to be behind episodes. There's no way we can, it's going to be real hard to record

even Monday episodes all the way through to the end of the month. I am going away on vacation.

I have a vacation planned all month. And inopportune timing and not being able to record, normally we would record something

that would be sort of evergreen for next week and we would post it.

But we can't even post it.

But we probably will not have a Monday show.

We also won't have a patron show, I don't think, this month.

Because there's just not enough time at this point to put anything out there.

So we're essentially behind episodes this month. I apologize. We've never really done that.

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