So I still don't know how to do, like, big introductions or anything.

Just know that I appreciate you all very much, that I know that you miss the live shows,

and that I appreciate your patience while I was just a little bit blue, a little bit down,

and just making my way through stuff.

Thank you again for all of your support, all of your patience.

I did a whole thing with the live show before we started recording about Tiger King and how I could

run a sex colt and how you probably shouldn't eat Chinese food that just randomly appears inside your house.

Thank you to everybody who comes out live to these things, to everybody who requests, everybody who tips, everybody who makes

them possible. Know that I'm blown away. I, um, before I get started with, just with this crowd,

I don't, I have no idea what I'm doing.

And I got to say, that works for me.

And sometimes that doesn't really work for the people who rely on me or who who want something that I make.

And so I feel pretty bad sometimes, or at least I have historically, when I have just not felt like showing up or when I felt

like not producing.

There is a, it's really unfortunate, but there is like a Protestant work ethic in me, a

puritanical sort of produced to be a good person, even though everybody I know who makes things to make things

is not the best person that they could be. But that's neither here or there. I just, I, I,

just like everybody else, just like I said for the last podcast at the beginning. I'm also going through a lot of shit.

And one of the weirdest parts about it is

I don't know when to have fun either.

And I don't know what's allowed to be fun or funny either.

But from the bottom of my heart, just taking a little bit of time to try and figure it out, try and adjust to the new normal, and all the rest, I got a fantastic amount of praise, support, encouragement from you guys.

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