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that matter podcast on the host John Harris for a rainy day in upstate New York. That's right. It is green outside for once. It's been brown. And so I'll probably have to cut my leaves. Cut my leaves. Ha. Break my leaves. I'm already raking leaves because trees are just dying,

but I'll probably have to cut my grass later this week.

It's been like a month and a half.

It's good also because we had a forest fire like 30 miles from me and the rain I'm sure is probably

putting it out right now which is great so thankful for the rain not thankful for my allergies

I don't know why I get him worse in the fall, but when the

rain stops I start sneezing. And so right now it actually isn't raining too

much, so I'm actually feeling it, but hopefully that dissipates. So that's what's happening near me.

I also, on a personal note, spent most of yesterday

working on my house with my dad, which is great.

He tends to do the things that I don't like to do. I don't like to do

electricity and I don't like to do plumbing. I don't know why. I work with wood.

Like mechanics, wood, great. I don't know what it is about water and electricity, but if someone else can do it,

I totally let them do it. But it's always good for everyone who's a homeowner to know, every man really,

to know a little bit about those things.

So anyway.

So that was good.

And I meant to, after I was done working on the house,

to do a podcast last night, and that got away from me.

And it got me to think about something because I've told people on

Patreon that the podcast is like an iceberg there's more under the surface than

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