Hey, what's happened? I'm Mike Schmidt, 40-year-old boy podcast. Taking a short amount of time here to jump in and give you a special note. It seems weird to give you a special note.

So this is supposed to be week one of year 12 of the podcast. As you know with no music there, you've obviously heard clearly this is not going to be a normal episode.

You also saw the running time there, unless I've gone ahead and made some sort of change

where running time is going to be incredibly short for year 12.

How great would that be?

I could bust out all of year 12 in a fucking week if they were all short episodes.

But unfortunately, they're not.

I've had a confluence of events that have kept me from doing a normal episode this week.

It is Thursday now. Um, I planned on doing one yesterday. It's a very long, uh, convoluted story.

I don't think it's convoluted really. And it's not long. It's, it's something I could just tell you,

but then it would burn what I want to tell you. Ah, fuck, I'll just tell you. I don't want to tell you. I want to do a real episode where I actually get to tell you about this kind of stuff.

Suffice to say that I'm a little under the weather.

And I know I don't sound under the weather.

Normally when I'm under the weather, it's my throat that's all fucked up.

And you guys hear me and you're like, Jesus Christ you swallow fucking razor blades and it's like yes ha ha that's what I do um but this time it's a little it's

something a little bit different and I thought it was over with and now it's not and and uh

and so sitting and doing a full show is is a chore I won't lie I also had there was a mechanical

problem there was there's a physical problem. There was, there's a physical

problem. Holy fuck. See, this is what happens. You know, a podcast is like a car, man. Once you get

to the 12 year mark, you really got to stay on top of the fucking thing or it just fucking

falls apart. And no matter, and even with your better efforts, even if you're on top of the goddamn thing, the whole thing could fucking just somehow fall apart. So here's, here's my plan. I'm going to attach, I'm going to put

up an older episode with this little announcement, just as a way to say, hey, look, there's

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