Hey, what's happened? I'm Mike Schmidt, 40-year-old boy podcast. I may have buried the needle there. I just started to record this, and it was at 30%, and now I had to put it to 70%, and this might be loud. I'll have to adjust it later with the compressor and possibly even a normalizer. I do that every week. You know why? Because I produced this fucking show in addition to talking on this goddamn show. Good Lord, what's wrong with me? There's a fan on over my head because I just got out of the shower and it is warm in my house

and I'm sticky and I have to put on a shirt because I'm about to call a lift because why? I'm

about to go to the airport. What's that? Yes, I am. I'm recording this Wednesday morning at

509 a.m. California time and I got a 7 o'clock flight out of Burbank heading off to,

why am I giving all this information?

Here's my social security number.

Enjoy that.

But I wanted to leave this.

It's a special bulletin for you, just because I don't want you to think I left you guys or

forgot you guys, or I'm back in the non-recording thing.

But I'm going to be in Chicago until Saturday night.

I get back here late Saturday night. So the new podcast will come out

either Sunday or Monday, probably Monday morning, but it depends on how I feel getting off the plane.

Because I don't know if you've heard about this. There's a germ, and there'll be a mask on my face

for a couple hours, maybe five hours. And that could fry your vocal cords. I don't know. I'm not

a fucking doctor. What the fuck do I know?

Or it could, you know what? I could sound better than I've ever sounded in my life, in which case,

oh my God, then I'll bust out a show that you'll listen to and go, holy shit, this guy should be sick all the time.

Or masked. I should wear a mask when I do the show, probably. That'd be a good idea. Everybody, putting in your ears is there are there germs in your ears there could be germs in your ears so here's the deal i'm going to record this little opening part and tell you uh well let's talk about this real quick i'll tell you about the new paranoid strain i'll tell you this real fast uh i'll talk about it on

the real podcast as well but the new i've listened to the new one because the new one's out so

why not plug the shit out of it right the new The new paranoid strain, Secret Societies, episode 14. God damn it. Put a couple

of touchdowns on the board there. He did. It's the 14th Gibbon and the endless chain that you

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