Hey guys welcome to episode 186 of the podcast I am to recording this back at my home in Los Angeles. I will briefly be here

Before I do an appearance at the University of Chicago's Sex Week this weekend.

I'm very excited about that.

Julian and I, my cousin, for those of you

who have listened to that episode

or heard me talk about him in the past,

my cousin and I will be doing a talk together for the students and I just can't wait.

It's really something I've been looking forward to for a while, so I'm super excited to do that.

And then I'll be traveling to New York for work.

So I'm taking this brief moment to put this episode out.

I'm kind of saying all this because I'm not entirely sure

I'm going to have time to get to an episode next week,

unless maybe I record that speech that I'm doing with Julian and just

release it as a podcast episode well this is what they call thinking out loud

please enjoy this week's episode I was able to record it in San Francisco while Janine

was up at Sketchfest and I so appreciate her time because she was doing a

million shows while she was up at the festival but I've been talking to her about

doing the podcast for the last couple of years so I'm really glad it came together.

And I just appreciate her frankness and her honesty and her fearlessness on the podcast and in life.

Whether or not you always agree with her I think you know she's a truth speaker and

and a person who I think there are a lot of things about her that I wish that I were more like.

Certainly having strong convictions is very impressive quality and to be honest with you in

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