Good, very, guys.

Good, very, very.

Very, very.

Thank you. The The Good evening, and welcome to Monsters Among Us.

I'm your guide, Derek Hayes.

Good evening, indeed.

Thank you for joining us for yet another episode of Monsters Among Us.

Now allow me to be completely frank with everyone listening.

This time of the year is my absolute worst time of the year.

And when I say worst, I mean busiest.

My artwork is flying off the shelves and I cannot keep up with it.

So in all reality, I really don't have time to record an episode this week.

But I know a lot of you are traveling.

I know a lot of you have time off and I didn't want to leave you hanging.

So I'm going to do something a little different tonight.

I'm going to play calls that I don't even know what they are. I haven't done any research

whatsoever. Any comments I'm going to make are off the cuff and off the top of my head. I don't even

know what these stories are going to be about. So this is kind of fun for me as well and it's going to

save me a ton of time. This isn't something I plan on doing very often, but in situations such

as this, it's what I have to do. So, without further ado, let's get into the first call of the

evening. I have no idea who this person is, so I'm just going to say, first caller, here we go.

Hello, Derek. I'm Nicholas, Nick, for short, from Los Angeles, California.

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