Hey, hey, everybody. Welcome to, gosh, it's been a while, AJ, an episode of Everything is a bitch.

I don't know what the number is. It's somewhere in the 30s, but we haven't been able to pull it off over the last few weeks.

But I'm really glad for today's timing because I published the episode last night, didn't get a chance to listen to it.

And then all of a sudden I woke up to a bunch of commentary from listeners concerned about you and wondering what's going on.

So, dude, what's happening?

Well, I just felt that lately I haven't been myself with respect to taping the shows.

And I didn't like the quality of them.

I didn't like the way I sounded because I'd been drinking.

And I don't, my audience deserves better.

So I just decided, you know what, I've never taken, you know me, I don't take vacations.

We just keep going every fucking year.

Eight years running now.

But I said, you know, and by the way, I'll probably, I'll probably do a show before I'm done.

I know I will because I love doing the show.

But I just said, let me just step back and just not care about

whatever's happening in Hollywood or Washington and just, you know, just get settled again.

It just is, you know, you do this every single day. It's monotonous. I love it. But every single day

to delve into the cesspool that is Washington or Hollywood,

it starts to get to you. It starts to really make you, and especially lately with all the

shit we don't really know with Epstein and how we're being lied to and cover-ups. It's

demoralizing. And sometimes I can get on the mic and really talk about it loud and clear.

And other times I just sit back and want to really understand it all before I get back into it and talk about it.

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