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Here with another re-air episode, but I'm recording an introduction this time because I'm very sorry that I have not had new episodes as much as I would like. Nobody's actually

been complaining, but part of me then feels like that's because no one listens to me anymore

because of how little new episodes I've done. So, I'm here just to reintroduce this conversation. It's been a couple years

since we had this. And it seemed like the right, the right time to re-air. I have been so

MIA lately, and I'm sorry, this...

The Odyssey book really has made it nearly impossible for me to research new topics,

even in spooky season, which I had kind of thought things would have slowed down,

but they haven't, so I'm still kind of scrambling for content. And I really, I don't know,

I feel super weird about like having not done too much new stuff lately, but that's probably my

anxiety speaking. I also, I wish that I was doing regular episodes because I have sort of styled myself as a person who's going to talk about some of the issues of the world within these episodes.

And while that's obviously not the like premise of the show, it is something I've felt really strongly about for like the entire time I've had the show.

And obviously everything right now is pretty bad. And I haven't really had a chance to talk

about it because I'm just sort of, I mean, just trying to get through the day, honestly,

but also, you know, like everyone else, I mean, or like I assume a lot of my listeners, I'm paying very close attention to everything.

Um, so to my American, uh, listeners, particularly in cities that have been overtaken by

...