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Hello, bienveni-oldo, my gente.

Welcome one and all to a brand, spanking new episode, fresh out the oven, ready for you to feast on of the low-life podcast. I'm your flaming hot and spicy, seasonally depressed, white wine drinking, tucky finger licking, ice coffee sipping, pumpkin spice latte, craven, hot mess of a host.

Lorenzo von Rumpf.

And I'm so happy to be here with you today.

There is no place I'd rather be than in this moment with you right now.

I'm so excited.

We have something to celebrate today.

It is our 200th episode of the Low Life Podcast.

I can't believe we made it to 200 episodes. I didn't think I'd make it past 10 episodes, to be honest. And so I didn't have any expectations for this podcast, which I think is the healthiest mindset going into starting a new venture is I didn't have any expectations going into it. I just wanted to do something that I loved,

something that I'm passionate about, and I just wanted to try it. But I didn't want to hold myself to any sort of standard because I didn't want to disappoint myself. And I was also in a closet

recording this podcast by myself when I first started the show. My gay ass was just in that closet, dealing with some depression, dealing with the

pandemic, with the rest of the world, and it was a really weird place to be.

And so, now that I'm out of the closet and we're able to still have the show, and now it's

200 episodes later.

We started with, what, 50 downloads, maybe 100 downloads if we were lucky.

Now we're at over 1.5 million downloads, hundreds of thousands of listeners and over 13 countries listening to this show.

This beautiful community of low lifers has come out of this little engine that could or couldn't at times.

And so I am forever grateful and so thankful to have

you as a listener. You are the reason why I even have this show. This podcast is nothing without you.

And so I just want to say thank you. Grasias from the bottom of my spicy little heart over here

because I wouldn't be able to do something that I love, something I'm so passionate about. If it weren't for you, tuning in every single week, sharing this podcast with your friends, your family members, your loved ones, your therapist, and bringing me along the journey with you, whether I'm with you right now on your way to work, or you're sitting in some traffic, or you're trying to kill time at work and you have a long day ahead of you, and hopefully I can make the time go by a little bit faster for you. I love my low lifers who will take me with them to the gym for a little workout, because that's definitely not a place I like to frequent, but I'm glad that I get to be there with you. But I'm just feeling so appreciative to even have this podcast and more importantly to have this community, this beautiful community of low lifers, this cult, this coven of little witches who are the most open-minded, kind, loving, accepting down-to-earth people.

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