And thank you so much for joining us. Once again, it is the Nightly Pleasures podcast. Season three, episode one, I hope. You all had a good holiday season. This season will absolutely run from beginning to end without any interruption or else there has been calamity. Thank you so much again for hanging on, for being a fan, for coming on back.

I'm so excited to be here. Today, a simple and sweet and fun episode. We're going to get

right on into it in a moment. But I do want to do a little bit of housekeeping first.

First off, allow me to say, I cannot tell you how much I appreciate being in this new place.

I think it's going to lead to a lot of really good work.

Recording here, it's easier and it's nicer, and I am not nearly as stressed.

Now that everything's all settled together and the

kinks have been worked out and it's no longer freezing all the time, I have

really gotten to work and I'm proud of it. The way my voice sounds, the way that I

sound, the way that I'm treating people and acting and treating myself, well, it's

all going pretty well and I hope you'll consider maybe

giving me a second round of support because of it. If you think I sound good, if you think the

podcast being back is exciting, if you want to show your support, well, there's a few ways that you

can do so, and it would mean a lot to me before we

get into the episode today. First off, it would mean a lot to me wherever you listen to the

podcast if you'd review it. Review and rating it, it just means the world to me. If you do review

it, if you do love it, if you do take the time, it does tell the algorithms and others that they might want to give it a shot.

And again, that's exactly what we're trying to do here.

This podcast, this experiment, all of it, I think it's ready to bring it to another level,

and I can only do it if you help.

So really, that review, first off.

Secondly, if you want to catch up on all the great stuff that I released over the holidays,

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