Hey guys I have some announcements to make. I have a new partnership with the

podcast that I'm very excited about. I have some changes with stand-up

science that are related to the partnership and hoping to get more places soon and I also have some life stuff that happen that may be over sharing but I'll share it anyway.

Ooh is that enticing? Are you excited? I know my editor tells me not to make a big long intro thing because people are listening for the first time and they're like oh my gosh is it always this big long thing when does it get to the show and that turns off a potential new listener, very understandable, great advice, not taking it today.

Because I just want people to know what I have going on.

So I've had since I started

since I broke down and started doing ads on the show you know I haven't

necessarily got my choice to pick and choose exactly what I'm selling all the time and you know I'm

trying to legitimize this podcast more and I had tried to go ad free for so many

years and dump my own money into this but if I really

want this to be something it's just the eventual the inevitability podcasts if we want to make money off them.

We got to sell stuff, it's not the most glamorous part of the job,

but I was like, well, I want to have good partnerships with people

and I've tried a few in the past some of them worked out like

myco meditation some of them have not worked out and and I won't name the ones that

haven't worked out but they you know it's been interesting

and fun and it's kind of a I'm not a business guy you know I consider myself kind of an artist I guess and I like

putting out this content and so you know I always wanted to do something that be

really relevant to the show and something that I really believed in and I've

been trying to get an audiobook company on board with this podcast forever

because we're always talking about audio books on the show.

I'm always listening to audio books like right now I'm finishing Stephen Pinker's

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