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Welcome to the Absolutely Not Podcast, where we do the most in the least at the same damn time.

I'm your host Heather McMan.

Hello ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to another episode of the Absolutely Not Podcast.

I'm your host Heather McMan, how the hell are you?

We got some crazy voicemails today. We have a lot to get into, so I'm very

excited to be hitting the absolutely not line.

And I'm excited to be getting back out on the road. A lot of unknowns with this though.

I'm just going to go ahead and say it. I've realized I've been sitting at home.

I've been saying no to a lot of things because I've been prepping for the road and just I've

been working on scripts and all this stuff. And to me, it's definitely taken a toll on my mental

health and the sense that I feel like I'm getting a little stir crazy, a little like talking to

myself in the mirror every morning, just generally unstable and unwell. And I realize I need to be out.

I need to be seeing people. I need to be doing the most. I need to be entertaining, living in my

purpose as cheesy as that fucking sounds. It's the truth. And I am so thrilled to get back out on

the road. And I've had such bad anxiety. I just feel like I've been sitting at home. I work

during the day on scripts. And then I lay down and fucking watch something that's horrifying. And I

just can't. I got to live in the light. All of that being said, I don't, I don't know what is going

on. And I got so many voicemails. I didn't even want to play them because we don't need to go down

that anxious spiral because we're already in it. But I had so many voicemails about people saying,

is this the end? Like what's happening? Is the Delta variant going to take us all out? I don't know

what's going on. We have no food. We have no job. Our pets are falling off. You know that quote,

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