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Because I had a tough year. I lost my dad. Not over.

Oh, wow. Yeah, not through COVID. I think I'll say.

But but he, uh, he passed away, you know, stroke and it was said in and, you know, I've had I'm having to deal that with my family at the moment.

And you know, it's to the point that it kind of clouded my.

What's the meaning of life? What am I doing? What the hell am I doing? You know, it messed grief messes with you.

And it wasn't. Uh, so this is like my first venture out back to the studio back to like my in five, four, three, two, one.

What's up, everybody? Welcome to another episode of the Genius Brain Podcast.

We have a very, very special guest today. I've actually been listening to her music for a damn year over a decade now.

Wow. And so, you know, when I, when I followed you, because I don't really follow that many people on Instagram, because I don't use the platform that much.

And I remember I started following you and you messes me. I was like, oh, shit, fucking Melissa Polner is fucking messaging me. That's crazy.

Because I just, I don't really like, I'm on Instagram, but not as much.

Right? If you look at my page, it looks like trash. There's no theme. It looks like somebody's grandma is running their page, which is my shit.

You know, so when I, uh, when I followed you, because I, for some reason, it doesn't connect that the people that I listen to, I don't really follow them on Instagram. I don't know why.

I don't, I don't necessarily follow everybody that I listen to as well. I don't really keep track.

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