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This is UnFuck Nation. Now here's your host, Gary John Bishop.

All right, all right, all right.

Welcome to this week's, this year's episode of Unfuck Nation.

I am your host, Gary John Bishop,

and you can breathe a big giant fucking sigh of relief, right?

Because the nation is back, okay?

As you may know or may not know, I write books.

And I've been working on this latest book, the

manuscripts been in for a while, but you actually get into the nitty gritty over after that, right?

Like release dates and artwork and what the insides of the book are going to look like and feel

like an experience, right? So that takes up a lot of time, a lot of effort, a lot of thought, and working with

various groups of people to make all that happen.

So here we are.

We're back, and we are on the court of your life, okay?

So this particular subject, I think, is a brilliant way to start the year. I feel as if this is a

placeholder for the year, okay? If you, no matter how many episodes we do this year, if you come back

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