Welcome to Fitzdog Radio. It is with a heavy heart today that we say goodbye to Fitzdog Studios.

It's the fourth or fifth Fitzdog Studios, but probably the most significant one in the history of this show.

I've been at the Santa Monica Airport in an office for the last 13 years.

And we just lost the lease.

The city, well, the Santa Monica College bought the property

from the city, and they are demolishing it so they can put up

pickleball courts. Yes! So that little stupid overweight people that are afraid of real sports can smack a little ball around.

Instead of hard-working entrepreneurial Santa Monica and Venice citizens can actually do jobs.

This whole office building is filled with the most interesting people, just like little indie filmmakers directors writers

architects fucking so how about like dress makers there's actual dress makers It's like an Amish barn. I met a lot of good friends over the years in this office and I'm saying goodbye to them today. I already say goodbye to a bunch of them and moved my shit out. My big

lazy boy is out, refrigerator, TV, it's all gone. And we've moved on. I got a lead on a new place and we'll pick it up from there I guess, but I'm just I'm very thankful. I'm trying to look at it like that.

I always think about gratitude in life because whenever you're having a hard time

and you feel like life is screwing you you can also

look at it with gratitude. I don't sound corny but honestly like I get a lot done in this little, this office is about 15 by 15 or something.

I don't know, it's tiny.

And I wrote a book in this office where I pulled all nighters and I slept on the lazy boy for a couple hours at three in the morning, then got back to work at five in the morning.

I mean, I almost had a nervous breakdown and I got it done. I have done probably more than half of all my podcasts have been in this room. Written scripts for TV shows, I've written a lot of stand-up comedy. I have

thought of shows, I've brainstormed shows with friends and fellow writers, I've taken

naps, I have, it's just, the place means a lot to me, and I got a lot done here.

And I'm grateful. That's how I'm looking at it.

And now we move forward. I've been written on a lot of TV shows where I had my own office and you know sometimes you get fired that happens on occasion I've left a couple of those offices with a with a milk crate with my shit packed in it.

Doing the Walk of Shame on a Wednesday afternoon on a production day.

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