This is Ebody and X, and welcome back to The Candid Frame.

There's a joke that goes, if you want to make God laugh, tell them your plans.

That's about the way I'm feeling right now.

Several months ago, I recorded a record number of interviews within the span of several weeks

in the hopes of having enough in the can so that I would always be ahead of the curve.

What I didn't anticipate would be that some of those files would be corrupted and the backups

of no use.

On top of that, I got sick with two back-to-back illnesses, one of which robbed me of my voice

for about two weeks, so now I'm behind.

Luckily, I have a conversation that I recorded a while back with my friend Jeffrey Sedoras,

a former guest of the show and the host of his own popular podcasts.

I had intended to release this as a bonus episode to those of you who support our Patreon effort,

because I was thinking and still intend to change some of the benefits and have this kind of more personal content where I have intimate conversations with people that include more of me. So I'm working on resolving

all the technical issues with the recording system and on re-recording some of those lost

interviews. It's going to be a little crazy, but I hope to stay on our weekly schedule.

This episode is longer than normal, because, as some of you may know, my conversations with Jeffrey

can go pretty deep, but I hope that despite the length, you do find something of worth.

Thanks again, and welcome back.

Yeah, I was listening to your most recent upload in terms of when you solicited people to talk

about their creativity and a lot of them was talking about fear.

That was a big one and doesn't.

I haven't even gotten through all the responses.

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