Okay, here we are again.

If this is your first time coming round, I would like to welcome you.

If you are returning, what's up?

How is everybody doing? I don't know about you, but it has been a very long week. I am spent.

What does that mean to you? It means that there's likely not going to be a lengthy and emotional

intro this week. I think we had enough of that last week, don't you? Seriously, I want to take a moment

to again say thank you to all of you out there, my friends. And I really do feel that I have friends.

It's amazing how when I do that, when I am able to sort of turn the filter off and just

let myself out while I'm recording like this, and then I send it out into the internet and like thousands and

thousands of people listen to it. It's such a wild thing that happens where like those of you

who are listening and follow along, you do know me in a very intimate way because I'm doing this, sometimes even more

than like people who live like right around me who see me every day. It's bizarre phenomena.

And I often, when I'm like talking to people like in my daily life, I can sometimes tell,

or not sometimes, almost always I can tell whether they're, listen to the podcast or not.

And sometimes I say things that I've said in the podcast intro to them because that's what's going

on with me.

You know, it's such a bizarre thing. But at the same time,

some of you listening, when you send me these emails, it's like there's such a mediacy and intimacy to it.

Let me give you an example. When I woke up on the Monday morning that last week podcast's post,

there was like a couple of emails. And often there are emails from people who live on the other

side of the planet because they wake up to it before the people who live closer to my time

zone do. And this was the first email that I to my time zone do.

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