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Hello, bienvenito.

Happy holidays, putta.

Welcome to a brand spanking new episode of the low-life podcast.

I'm your flaming hot and spicy, seasonally depressed, hot mess of a host.

Lorenzo von Rumpf.

And I'm so happy to be here with you today, but I will say I am feeling a bit under the weather.

If you can't hear it in my voice already, it's a little scratchy like I was smoking a pack of siggies a day. Not smoking siggy's. It's just a good old-fashioned flu with a splash of strep throat. And so, yeah, that's what I'm dealing with right now. And it has not been fun. No. Some people never get strep throat. If you're one of those people

who have never had strep throat, I'm so envious of you because I get it often, at least once a

year. I'm due for strep throat. And it's so weird because I know exactly when I'm going to get it.

So when I go to sleep and I wake up in the morning, you know that feeling if you have a fan on you and you wake up in your throat just feels so sore. You feel it. So when I go to sleep and I wake up in the morning, you know that feeling if you have a fan on you

and you wake up in your throat just feels so sore, you feel like your throat's scratchy? Most people will have some tea, a couple throat lozenges, and they're fine. But if I wake up with that feeling, I know there is an 80% chance that I'm going to get strep throat. And sure enough, there it was. Strep throat was just waiting to take me out. And so, yeah, I'm on antibiotics. I went right to my doctor for a scratchy throat. And I said, could you please do that throat culture test? They take a long Q-tip, like you're getting a COVID test. I don't have COVID. I was tested for that too. But they test your throat. They stick it in the back.

Some people have a gag reflex. I don't. But they did that. And sure enough, when they ran it

through the lab, it was positive for strep. And so I'm on antibiotics, but I also have just

your run-of-the-mill classic flu.

And so that pairing is a bit shitty, which is probably contributed to my mental health right now.

It's taken a bit of a dip.

So let's get into it.

Nobody asked, but my mental health score this week, I'm going to rate it on a scale of one to 10. One feeling like life is a total shitstorm.

10 being euphoric bliss, almost solid 6 on the scale right now, which is, I'd say, 60%, which

would be a D in school.

Summer school is going to be needed if you get a D, which is okay.

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