Hello, hello and God bless.

Welcome to The Blind by a Podcast.

You're listening to this on Stevens Day, I'm guessing.

If you're choosing this as an opportunity to show this podcast to members of your family,

don't go back to an earlier one.

Choose your favourite one.

Choose your favourite one.

And if you're a new listener, just go back to the very start anyway.

If you're listening to this, you might be slightly surprised because last week I said to

you, I was going to skip this week, I was going to not do the podcast this week because

I am recording this on Christmas Day and I wanted to, I just wanted to get fucking

shit faced on Christmas Day and not have to worry about doing the podcast.

Of course, I got a lot of mails from people who were kind of not pissed off but actually

kind of worried.

You know, I had a lot of people kind of just say they kind of really rely upon this

podcast for kind of peace of mind or just out of habit or out of ritual and other people

saying that Christmas for them was going to be stressful, it was going to be lonely

and they were really, really looking forward to having this podcast.

So when I read those mails, I was like, yeah, fuck, I really should be kind of mindful

of people like that and find time to just do the podcast, which is what I'm doing right

now, which is no great inconvenience to me to be honest.

So here it is.

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