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Hi, I'm Alex Goldman, and this is Hyperfixed.

So this week, we are unlocking a bonus episode, and we are doing that for a couple of reasons.

First of all, we are a very small crew.

We have limited resources, and unfortunately, a wrench was kind of thrown in the works on an episode that we had planned to put out this week.

It needs a little more time in the oven, so we are kicking it down the road a couple weeks,

which will allow us to both fine-tune that episode for maximum enjoyment,

and give us a little breathing room to get ahead on some forthcoming episodes.

And the second reason that we wanted to unlock this episode specifically

is because it's the first in a series that we started on the bonus feed, and we're very excited to see where the series will go.

It's a story about a problem without a solution. In fact, it's a problem that in a lot of ways is self-made.

It's about a person who, pretty early on, knew that he was walking into a mess,

and he chose to charge headlong into it anyway.

So I don't know if you've heard of this, but there's a cruise ship called the Villa V Odyssey that's just embarked on a three-and-a-half-year cruise.

It took off from Belfast in October, and over the next three years, it'll be taking passengers to every continent and dropping anchor in hundreds of cities.

If the whole enterprise sounds pretty stunty, that is at least partially by

design. A bunch of the passengers are trying to parlay this experience into social media celebrity,

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