Hello everyone and welcome to the Happy Times podcast.

My name is Joey Kidney. I'm your host and

This is gonna to get personal.

This one, it's personal, but first I want to say,

happy December 1st, the start of the most wonderful time of year for me,

but for a lot of people it's not but I want to keep this on the positive outlook I think it think it's just a wonderful month that we're able to be with family that're able to enjoy the change of seasons for once because where I'm

from we get a lot of snow.

And I find the snow just makes everything worth it.

It just makes everything better. It just makes it so much better.

It just makes it so much brighter out there

and when the leaves start to fall

and everything gets very gray.

Once that white snow comes down,

everything just becomes worth it.

It just becomes worth it.

And for me, I've always been somebody that's like close to my immediate family,

but not that close to like my cousins and I was younger. to my

cousins and I was younger when I was younger, but now I just, I grew up and I almost became

more self-conscious, more introverted, just because, well, I have everybody that I need in my life.

Like, honestly, once I got into a relationship, I became very introverted because I didn't need to talk to anybody else.

I didn't need to be anyone.

I wasn't searching for anyone.

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