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Hello, lo, lo, lo, lo, lo, lo, lo, lo, lo, welcome to the naughty bono.

I'm your host, Rob Schuzer, and it is Wednesday, which means her dear friend,

Donnie, meacham's joining us.

Hey, Donnie, are you there? Hello, blah, lo, lo, lo, lo, lo. Hello, darling, how you doing? We missed you last week. Yes. Well, here's the thing. We're very honest here on the night of the night show. And I will be even more honest.

I was, I'm going through a little bit of a mental struggle here lately.

And last week was just too much.

And I couldn't.

The thing is, is like, look, this is fun.

We love doing it.

But it's work.

And it's when you're not in a good headspace, you have to own up to that.

And I think a lot of times people try to barrel through.

And I would rather just be honest than put out bad work because that would actually put me in a worse space.

And of course, I just told Rob, hey, and the only thing he said was, you need anything, call me, please take care of yourself, love, mo'am, all the good stuff. Oh, I'm lovely, aren't I? This isn't my story, though. This is yours, Donnie. Thank you for sharing what you just told us. It's really difficult, isn't it? And it takes a lot of courage. It takes

being brave to say that I just need a day off and so we should all learn to do that. Yes, this is

a really fun thing to do every day and we're really privileged to do it. And yes, it is also

work, but nothing. Not work, not fun is more important than your own mental health. And so if you

need a day off, Nautis, please take it. And Donnie, my friend, was so happy you're back. And I really

did mean that. If you do need a friend, you've got my number, text me, call me. I'm always there.

And I promise I will try to listen and not talk. Try. It's hard not to, though. It's our job.

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