And if you threw a party, invited everyone you knew, you would see the biggest gift would be for me,

and the card attached would say thank you for being a friend.

How do you like the new intro music?

I mean, I'm kidding, obviously.

As a matter of fact, we are moving into a new podcast era with no music, which I will explain later. But for this episode, for this solo show, I actually started writing this about five months ago, give or take on my flight back

from South America, six months ago, it's December. I'd just been, amongst other things,

uh, to see Giulio Cesar Oddy in Brazil and spend a couple of nights with his Kim Banda house and

and so on. And I hadn't actually seen him since he rudely and cruelly, uh, left me in Australia at the beginning of 2019 to go back home.

And then it just, you know, life happens.

And so the podcast didn't happen.

And a couple of weeks ago, I was up in Brisbane for Cassandra Tyndall's 2025 astrology workshop, aka Space Camp.

And so I wanted to do this episode having just got back from Space Camp because there were,

obviously there were premium members there because I put the call out on our Mighty Network

and also parts of the local Astro community,

a, you know, Kassas community up there in Brisbane.

So I was going to do it then, and it also didn't happen.

And then last week, a couple of really cool moments that team with the theme

eventuated.

And one of them was I met up with and had some coffee with a visiting literature professor from Fiji. And he actually gave me some carver and some tarot cards,

which I also shared on the mighty, but like it was really cool to talk to someone in that kind of

context who loves the show and so on. And then I heard from a poet in Greece who's sending me

a book of his poems. And then, lucky last, Carolyn Lovewell, who wrote Existential King. I mentioned her and

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