Have a seat on your porcelain throne.

It's time to talk some shit on the Powell movement.

Welcome to the Powell movement.

I'm your host Mike Powell, and I have one Snowvana ski show date down.

And while I didn't surprise myself, I'm always blown away with how good I am as a live event MC.

I know it's so cocky of me to say, but that's what I do best in life.

I make live events better and I really don't think there's many people as good or as entertaining as me.

God, I sound like such a

douchebag talking about how good I am at something, but I am. And if you have a live event and you spend a lot of money on it and you skimp on the MC, well, that means you're not great at your job. And that awesome event you planned? Well, having your team manager MC it because he knows people doesn't cut it.

Hire a pro. Hire the best. That's me, the guy who's not being so humble in this intro.

Sorry about that. One thing that was difficult was an interaction that I had at Snowvana.

I was chatting it up with an old friend, and midway through, he was like, how's your wife doing?

And it was so hard to say that she died. And then I welled up with tears and I told the dude that I couldn't talk to him anymore. I went behind my booth and I cried for a little bit, and then I got my shit together and I got back on the mic. But it's crazy how fast my mood can change in just a couple of words, and how I'm learning little by little how to try to manage these emotions.

But when you're the guy on the mic, you have to figure the emotion part out. And I will say, when I was stuck on the mic for 24 hours, that's right, they had me on the mic for 24 hours over three days, and each hour I was on the mic for about 15 to 20 minutes. But while I was doing that, I didn't think about and that much because I was kind of in the moment.

Sure, while I was doing that, I didn't think about Ange that much because I was kind of in the moment. Sure, whenever I was done each night, I thought about the text I would get from Ange after each event when she was asking me how things would go, and more importantly, how I did. I'd always reply with the words home run. And while that was the end result this time, I cried all the way home,

thinking about texting her the words home run after the event. Anyways, that's over. It's on to Portland this weekend. And I'm going to be so busy there. I have the event, and then I'm seeing some old high school

friends, old K2 friends, and of course the Rory, Rory Silva will be there. It should be fun and I'll tell you all about it. I should be telling you how great the Matt Stick Productions premiere was, but I skipped it. My kid asked me to get us tickets to the Monday night football game against the Texans, and since teenagers don't want to hang with their dads that much, I was like, hell yeah, and we got some nice seats, and we watched the Seahawks beat the Texans. That was awesome. But you didn't tune in to listen to stories about family and foosball. You came here for a podcast. And before we get into it, first and foremost, I heard something from a listener that I want to share with you. While I was at Monday Night Football, that listener sent me a text that said, during that Jess Hatter episode that I put out last week, it sounded like I had a lisp. That freaked me out as I don't like having a lisp. So I tried checking out the podcast during the game, but it was a little too loud. So then I listened on my way home, and I will say my S's were strong, but there was no

lisp in my opinion. But I could see what it was saying, and I didn't think it was that bad.

And the reason for this is that I'm using an AI editing program that saves me about five hours a

week so I can keep working my three jobs of podcasting, emceeing events, and selling stickers

and tents. I didn't notice it on this week's episode, but the AI program does drop out a couple of my words

and some of my laughing during the podcast. It makes things about 3% worse. And since only one

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