I'm Hank Patterson, professionally unemployed fly fishing expert, outdoor guide, good camper,

dang I'm good at camping, and host to this show Hank Patterson's outdoor misadventures.

And joining me today is...

Bop-da-ba, da-da-ba! And joining me today is, nobody. There's nobody here. It's me alone in a room talking

into a microphone, talking to all of you here today to tell you we're not having a show. There's no show this week. I'm going

fishing. I'm going into the great outdoors. I'm going to go commune with nature. I'm going to go and be one with the puddle.

I'm going to be the puddle. As Daddy Pig on Peppa Pig would say, I am one with the puddle. I'm going into the

outdoors and so we're not having a show and Kevin sick. Kevin is a little bit

under the weather. I'm going to the great outdoors and we thought you know

what let's let's we deserve it God, let's give ourselves a break.

Let's give all of you a break for crying out loud, right? I mean, it's like, do you really need,

you know, any more new material out of us? No, of course not. So we thought, well, let's go fishing.

Kevin's going to stay home and take NyQuil and let's just take the week off.

And so, for the first time ever, time ever I thought well let's share a past episode.

Let's look through the canon of work that we've put out over the last three years and let's find a good show, a good

episode that we can share once again and let's play that. And so this week I have

decided to play an episode called Essential Oils. It was originally

episode 204 from season 2 essential oils and this is an episode

back in the early days of COVID, back when the pandemic had just really sort of started getting going.

It was back when it was like, oh man, hey, this COVID thing, I think it's going to be around for a couple of weeks.

I mean way back then back when we were still star-eyed and we didn't realize

you know what we were in for we put out an episode called essential oils and I

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