Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and those who don't identify as either, you are listening to a bonus episode of Ratchet and Respectable.

I have thoughts.

I have so many thoughts.

I have a lot of thoughts.

Some thoughts I can't share.

I've learned over the years that I don't need to have a public opinion on everything.

Sometimes I can just have an opinion that I keep to myself or share with the group chat.

And that's as far as it goes. Oh, read between the lines. Read between the lines.

But I do have thoughts. There's just a lot of stuff going on right now. And I'm in like a weird space with the way that I'm thinking about things and I need to like talk it through. I've done this enough times where I know when something's happening. But I've been going through a shift. I'm transitioning from one space to another. Like I've been feeling the discomfort of it. I thought I was having that feeling because of

everything that's going on with the condo situation. The condo is, it represents a lot of things to

me other than just being like a place for shelter. And I thought the situation with the condo

just being consistently in flux was what was sending me off.

Now that a couple big stories have come up in the zeitgeist and I've been thinking about

my take on them, I realize that one, I think my shift is coming to an end, but also that I've

had a major shift in that the opinions that I currently have, I probably

would not have held six to nine months ago, maybe even three months ago.

Or one of the things that came up in last week's podcast, I opted not to talk about it.

It's not entirely true.

I talked about it in the episode and then I edited out because I didn't like my take on it.

And I was like, let me sit on this one for a second.

And I'm glad that I did.

At some point in the podcast, I mentioned we were going to talk about Mark Lamont Hill.

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