Welcome back, class. Can you believe it's been 89 times that we've been here together?

Lord, it's been a long, long haul, and if you've listened to all 89 of them, I commend you.

Because they were real bad back in the day y'all that original

amazon mic who okay i don't know why i am going down nostalgia avenue uh not necessary

but welcome back to girl maria and i am here with a solo session, a little weekly lush, if you will.

I'm here, I guess I should say, to like deliver some weekly lush to you.

Little, little name I'm playing around with. I think daily lusch.

I like daily lusch even better. But that would presuppose that I have the ability to podcast every

day, which in theory I do, but I really don't. Let's be real. Is it physically possible? Sure. Is it actually physically possible? Not at all.

Anyways, one day, one day class, perhaps we will have the daily loosh. But for now, perhaps we will have the weekly loosh.

It's been a little minute, a week or two, two or three,

since we've had this intimate one-on-one time together.

Let me tell you how much I have missed you.

Let me also tell you just how fucking annoyed I am right before I got on here with you.

I have certain news alerts that I sign up for through Apple.

And really, it's like stupid bullshit Fox News stuff that I like to see the headline on because I'm never actually most of the time I'm going to consume it.

But the headline said

Fauci American should be prepared for new COVID-19 restrictions so I wanted to see what this is about

he's talking to on Sunday somewhere about the potential for the reinstatement of restrictions in the United States.

Excuse me. He was on BBC's Sunday morning. And he goes on to say that a new variant could be

possible. I don't want to use the word lockdowns. That has a charged element to it. But I believe that we must keep our

eye on the pattern of what we're seeing with infections, he said. Having said that, we need to be

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