I'm It's the 40-year-old boy podcast with your friend Mike.

It's the 40-year-old boy podcast that you like, because it's free here he comes now he's gonna sit down

it's gonna start Hey, what's happened at Mike Schmidt, 40-year-old boy podcast?

Folks, we're going to ease into it this week.

Ease. I like the way that looks on the audacity thing.

Ease. We're going to ease into it this week.

Because it's been 10 days, man, since I did an actual real show.

It was 10 days?

Maybe even two weeks, because last week's show was just a fucking tragedy.

What a mess that was, right?

But I mean, there's nothing you can do.

When illness comes for you,

when the Reaper shows up and strikes you with his scythe,

all you can do is lay there and hope not to bleed the fuck out.

And that's what I tried to do for you guys last week.

And I forced myself to do a chunk of show just so you would hear that I wasn't lying. How sad is that inside my tiny brain?

I thought, oh, people will think I'm lying about taking a week off.

But you heard it last week.

I mean, I had a throat full of wasps.

That's not fucking good for anybody, especially when you get a head full of bees.

I'll tell you this.

You know what you don't want a throat full of wasps and a head full of bees. Because eventually the two of them will meet in the middle and in your sinuses, you've just got a bug fight.

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