Hey, buddies. If you're hearing this on the free episode, then we've got a normal episode coming up for you in just a minute.

And if none of this interest, you feel free to skip ahead. But I would be remiss if I didn't update people that as I record this last night, Friday night, Fez Watley of the Ronan Fez Show died.

So again, you know, if you don't care about any of this, skip ahead.

I'll just, going to do a couple minutes on it.

But for those of you on the Patreon, you guys know that me, Mike, and Craig did Fez-Watley

tribute a couple months ago.

And I had said that Fez-Watley is a catalyst in helping me get through

some of my, you know, mental, uh, self-pity or self-loathing or whatever you want to call it

that I was going through, you know, not just a year ago, but for, uh for most of my life, really, since I was a kid.

And, you know, if you never heard of the run, Fez Show, they were on Sirius XM, they were in

Washington, they were in New York City for a while.

But it was a fascinating, I just tweeted out that it would be like if Howard Stern hired, not just hired a whack

packer, but made him an equal partner. And Fez was a little more than that, but it's,

it's bizarre. If you go back and listen to old Ron and Fez clips, especially from the later

years, you're hearing a man have a mental

breakdown and he would cry on the air every day and most shows he wouldn't speak.

So it would be like if this was called the Blind Mic Project and Craig talked to you for an

hour and sometimes I'd throw in a few words.

You know, it doesn't, it didn't make any sense.

It was a wild examination of depression, narcissism,

um, insecurity, lack of confidence.

It's, you know, and a lot of that applied to me.

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