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calm and Nate. And we still have no cold open because that feels dirty and wrong. Boys,

how are you doing? It's spring.

It's spring in Central Europe and it's wonderful.

The hippies were right.

If you eat well and exercise, you feel better.

I fucking hate them for it.

But every year I learn this anew and I'm in my rediscovery phase right now.

So that's basically all it's going on in my life. I got an 18-month-old who yells at me and throws shit, but I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

She just yells and throws shit.

I have to other work related, unrelated to podcasting, have to put together a proposal for a museum.

And it's weird trying to rediscover how to be professional to normal people when your job is making jokes about calm every day.

I empathize with that from the beginning of when this podcast started. It's really hard.

The lines began to blur to the point that my coworkers would look at me and I realized, oh no,

I've become too strange to be a public school teacher. You've become a Kafkaesque character

of showing up with your real face and you can't make dick jokes to children. It is interesting

because this does happen to me sometimes when I have to, I have to temper myself in conversations

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