Hey, what's happened to Mike Schmidt, 40-year-old boy podcast? Uh, you know, I did that thing again.

And I'm, you know, fighting it off as best I can. You know, I've got torches. I've got a sharp implements.

I've got a chain, a bike chain. I'm swinging that around like a goddamn gang member in a 70s movie.

Someone's going to get in the face. And that's going to be pretty. There's a bike chain tire tread all over your goddamn skull.

We're late today, and I apologize for that.

But also, I, you know, I did, I don't, hmm, when I say I did that thing again, what I mean

is I didn't do that thing again, which means live a life to talk to you about.

I, you know, we're streaming Twitch and, and we're staying alive.

We're paying bills.

So we're doing that.

So I didn't think I had anything to bring to you guys this week.

And so I would sit and I'd try and I kind of, eh, and also the bad habits took over again

where I get in my brain and I kind of walk away and I think to myself, but look, you guys are fucking tired of hearing me take a magnifying glass to the inside of my skull and I don't blame

you. So I'll tell you what. There are new people aboard because I heard all week from people

who listen to last week's show and we're very kind and generous and very nice about last week's

content. And see, this is the thing. I hate following up last week's show with a whiff.

And I mean, so that's the thing.

This part might be a whiff.

This is all this stuff in the beginning.

And so new people don't go anywhere.

There's good stuff coming, I promise.

I hook my podcast claws directly into your shoulders and I hold you in place.

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