Hello, ladies and gentlemen. We are back with a brand new season of Menister sobriety.

If you're watching me with your eyes, then you can see. We have a brand new setup here.

We've upped the production value. And if you're listening, just trust me. We have gone to another

level to make this special. I'm sorry that i left you but i am

really excited to be back and uh with this launch episode of season three uh i just want to have a chat

with you i want to tell you what the season's going to be about i want to tell you why i left you

the real reasons actually and uh which i'm a bit embarrassed about and why i back. I want to show you the response that I've had from people on my social media. I said, ping us a voice note, if you're going to tune in. And my God, I was overwhelmed. So I'm going to play a load of voice notes from people that have messaged in to show their appreciation. But I don't know if you saw my social media post the other day.

I jumped on my social media and I said, look, listen, I've got a bit of a confession to make. I've been very close to relapsing recently. The stresses of life have been getting on top of me. And I need to bring the podcast back because I need to work on myself. And that's what this podcast is going to be, ladies and gentlemen. That is what this is going to be every single Friday.

I'm going to be here in and gentlemen. That is what this is going to be every single Friday.

I'm going to be here in your ears or for you to watch. And I'm going to be chatting to you. I'm going to set you up for the weekend so we can calm ourselves down. We can make sure we're in the right mindset for our families, which is the most important thing, right? And I want this hour hour or however long these podcasts end up

being I want them to be your time to work on yourself and your time for yourself

now if you're anything like me where you're giving all your time to to work to

the family to everything and you rarely find any time for yourself and if you're

anything like me your time for yourself used to be getting on the old bag or drinking or whatever. It can

feel physically like we don't do nothing for ourselves. And that's no way to live, man. You've got

to make sure that you are looking after yourself. So for this hour, you don't worry about no one

else apart from yourself. It's just me, you don't worry about no one else apart from yourself.

It's just me and you, your ears, my voice, and together we're going to make some positive

feelings flowing around. All right? Let me start by apologising, man. I'm sorry that I left you guys.

I didn't realize how much this podcast meant to people until I started touring. Since I've seen you, a lot has happened. I've done two, well, I've sold out a massive UK tour. I'm on another one right now. Shameless plug. But yeah, I'm on tour. I'm coming to a town near you doing my stand-up comedy show. But it is relevant because this is why I've come back because every single show

someone comes up to me and says your podcast saved my life and it's difficult to hear that because

I'm like really how like it was just a podcast but I understand now now that I've come away from it

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