Welcome back to retail therapy. My name's Will DeFries.

For all the regular retail therapy listeners out there, you know that Barrett is going to be out for, I guess, like, the next month or so.

Is that correct, Randy?

He says something.

I think he said like five, six weeks.

So, yeah, maybe a month and a half.

This might just be the kickoff of Will's interview series.

Hey, I think the people are excited for it.

A lot of comments on the YouTube. so people are excited for this journey.

It's forcing me out of my comfort zone.

I'm a little worried about it, but I think I'll be able to endure.

I think you'll be, you'll do great.

I'll do great. I'll do great.

If you're not, if you're not sure what's going on, Barrett also hosts a podcast called Oysters, Clams, and Cockles that originally covered Game of Thrones,

but they've since found success doing other shows. And with two of their most popular shows

being in season right now, which are Severance and White Lotus, he just simply doesn't have

a lot of time on his hands to do a ton of podcasting. And so I said it would be okay if he stepped away from the mic for about a month

to to get that done. Today we have a special guest in the studio with us. You're probably familiar

with him if you are familiar with the zine that was put out from Sunday Scaries last year.

Scenes of note. Noted co-creator of the zine, James Tedesco, James, what up?

Dude, thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here.

It's good to have you, James. Finally talking zine.

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