EP 57: What Happened to Nurse John?!?
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I just want to say thank you to every single besties who have shown up for me in all of those cities that we visited because you guys...

You all make my heart full and seeing every single one of you laugh relieves so much anxiety and so much stress to me. Because again, I don't know. It's just like this was just sorry. I'm getting a little bit emotional. Seeing everybody laugh a little, seeing everybody forget their problems just for that night makes me happy.

Hey, besties. It's your favorite caffeinated, medicated, and never hydrated nurse, Nurse John. And welcome back to your favorite podcast. I beg your pardon. Bestie, I miss you guys so, so, so, so, so, so, so much. I know it has been a long time.

been a while that we had a podcast episode. First of all, I want to say sorry to every single one of you. Your bestie has been so busy on the road since we started the short staff tour, you guys. It has been such an amazing, crazy, chaotic, exhausting few months of my life. But I'm so, so happy that I'm able to see every single one of you guys on the road, face to face, physically, live. And I can make people happy every single night. All right.

Well, Bessie, how are you doing? How is life? How is your work? How is love life? How is family? How is friends? How's everything? I miss you guys so, so much. Listen to me. I am so, so serious about this. I've been saying so, so, so because I really just am.

missing the podcast and every single listeners who have been listening to the podcast forever and thank you guys for still listening to the podcast and repeating them and you guys are sending me so much messages of like john thank you i keep listening to the podcast episode that you like and it keeps inspiring you and keeps motivating you and keeps you doing things and i'm so happy to hear that every single time

And before we continue, you guys, do me a quick favor. If you're listening right now, do me a favor by following us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify Podcasts. Make sure that you leave a five-star review and make sure that you share this to all your social media and to your friends so that they can listen to I Beg Your Pardon podcast too. Also, if you're wondering what kind of scrubs I wear in a hospital and my skits and everything, it's Gardmalad, G-A-R-D-E-L-A-D.

M-A-L-A-D-E and you can use my discount code NURSEJOHN G-M-N-U-R-S-E-J-O-H and only one N G-M I love them so much they're so comfortable they're so stylish they're so flexible I love love Guard Malad they're the only scrubs I wear and I trust and you guys last today we released

all the new shows of the short staff tour. See, I was preparing so many new things for you guys. So if you want to come see your bestie on the road, live in your city, in your area, go check out www.nursejohnn.com

shows s-h-o-w-s dot com so that you can get your tickets to the nearest short staff tour to you yes Bessie we released more dates for the short staff tour so 2025 is going to be packed we are going to be everywhere in the United States and before I

Actually, since leg two came out of the short staff tour for the leg one, I just want to say, you guys, thank you so much to every single one of you who have supported me and showed love and support and came out because the leg one, you guys, of the short staff tour was 95% sold out. Yes, there's only 5% who had like 20 tickets left before the show. And that to me is insane and crazy because I never would have thought

that people would come out and see me take some time off and really dedicate their time to just come see me live and that to me means so much means a lot because this whole journey in social media becoming a content creator becoming a stand-up comedian was nothing that I dreamed of

If that makes sense. Like I didn't grow up wanting to be a stand-up comedian. Or wanting to be a content creator. It just all happens in dear time. And now it's all here. And to me they become my dream now. They become part of my bucket list. And so I'm just so happy to every single one of you. And Legon was so in demand that...

They needed to have a second leg. And now we're here with 80 more shows. So you guys, if you want to go get some tickets, bring yourself, bring your family, bring your friends, bring your husbands, bring your colleagues. Make sure that you visit www.NurseJohnNNShows.com. Get your tickets and VIP.

And lastly, you guys, also, if you did not know, two weeks ago, I released my first ever skincare line. That is right. Oh my God. You're probably like, my God, John, you're doing so many things at once. Yes, Bessie. They were all

an idea and they were all in the works for the past like year and they're all coming into fruition and to reality now all the same time together so if you didn't know i released philly skin let me just show you guys if you are watching the video right now that is right that is philly skin

That's right. Philly because I'm Filipino. That's why it's Philly. And I made a skincare because as many of you know, when I burnt out from nursing, I did a lot of therapy. I did a lot of like self healing. And I realized that

I've been giving so much self-love to strangers, to people that I'm taking care of from my job. And I've been giving too much of myself to others instead of giving that love to myself. And when I discovered self-love, that taught me to take care of myself.

And through skincare, I realized how powerful, how good it is to give that same love that I give to others to myself. And skincare has been a big part of my life because it changed the way I look at myself. It changed the way how I take care of myself. Now, there's a lot of products that I use, I know, but it's been a journey. And so I was like, listen, if I'm going to make a product, if I'm going to make something, I want it to be something that people know me from.

And you guys know me from my deepest under eye bags. From Nurse Pam to Nurse Meredith to all the nurses in my skits. I know I exaggerate them with makeup. But at the same time, that is something that I've been struggling since nursing school. Because I am obsessed.

studying or even at work i work night shift and like it's just so hard to look at my face in the mirror when i get home or like whenever i get a chance to look at the mirror because my under eye literally looks like i'm dead in the outside which is true but in a sense like you gotta take care of yourself so the first ever product of philly is an under eye cream serum that is correct you guys i was like i told them i was like if we're ever gonna

Makeup product. It has to be an under eye cream. Because my besties are going to need this for the holiday season. Every single day and night. So there you go guys. The Philly product. The under eye cream serum is right here. We actually sat down and looked at every formula. Making sure that everything is considerate of. First of all my skin. I was the guinea pig. My skin is oily.

It's dry. I am acne prone. It is sensitive. So every formula in this is considerate of those kind of skin. Even normal skin is considered even combination skin. So if you guys ever want to check out and get yourself some Philly under eye cream serum, you can check it out at www.phillyskin.com.

and currently it's on pre-order right now that's right it's going to be released on december 10th i think it's going to go out so once you order your order is going to start delivering on december 10th that's right and also just another thing about philly is it's well thought out because first of all we added a roller like a metal roller because the metal roller is just like massaging your under eye almost period exactly and if you actually put this on a fridge it's going to

cool the metal roller it's gonna feel like it's gonna de-puff your under eye and at the same time massage it and apply those under eye serum period again if you guys want to check out my first ever skincare line it is www.filiskin.com philiskin i love you guys so much

All right. Well, you guys were done with those things. Now let's catch up, you guys. OK, so we started the tour around September, September 14th, I guess the first day of the tour. So let me pick up from there. So it was it was such a dream. I was panicking. I was anxious. I was nervous because, again, the whole tour started.

almost sold out, like 95% sold out. That's basically all of it sold out. And to me, it was so hard for me because I had never had an experience doing stand-up comedy. So before the tour, actually, I was given an opportunity to play in the Netflix It's a Joke Comedy Festival with a good friend of mine, Stephen Ho. And from other places, I was in Nashville, I was in San Francisco and San Diego, and I was doing like a 20 or 30 minutes bits

with Stephen Ho because again, Stephen Ho has been a stand-up comedian for a while. And so when we were paired together because we're in the same agency, it was good. But at the same time, it was nerve-wracking because I have never been on stage before that long. Even 20, 30 minutes for me is so long. And again, I'm so self-conscious and I'm such a people pleaser that I don't even know if people are ever going to find me funny like they do.

when they see me on screen or in their phone. And so when I was given that opportunity, I took that opportunity for Netflix is a Joke and we went pre-sale with a ticket and it sold after 20 minutes. And they released a second one, the second show on that same day and it sold out after an hour. So it was just, it was mind-boggling. My head was...

thinking i was like oh my god is this how many people actually do care about me and support me and find me funny and after that netflix got shocked and all these other venues and theaters got shocked they're like oh my god who is this guy we've never seen him before and so they booked me for some small little show i think it was in the lab here in los angeles there was like 30 people for me to practice

practice so that I can practice for my show with Stephen Ho in San Francisco and San Diego and the comedy clubs here. I practice in Brea for like five, ten minutes. It was a lot. It was a lot of pressure for me, but I never thought that every single show that they're going to book me, even though it's just a

practice show it would sold out and then after that they asked me i think around january january or oh no march or april after doing all of those i told my manager logan that the year before this whole thing happens like

Netflix is a joke and everything like I told her like oh maybe I want to bring my podcast to a tour that I beg your pardon podcast like a sit down tour where everyone can listen to it live and we'll just talk and like we'll share a bunch of stories and memories and stuff and she's like oh absolutely let me bring it to your agents and see like what they can do about it but then again the Netflix is a joke came in as an opportunity and other theater shows where I was performing like 15 to 20 minutes and

after i did all of those shows they're like john would you like to go on a tour and i was like what do you guys mean tour like my podcast tour because that's what i'm planning to do i want to do my podcast on the road that's gonna be so amazing they're like no no we love your idea for the podcast tour but i think we would love to see you as a stand-up comedian and i was like i'm

not sure about that. I was like, you guys, I was like, stand-up comedian for me are like Dave Chappelle, Shane Gillis, Wanda Sykes, like all of those people are big, like Kevin Hart. Those are stand-up comedians for me and those people have been working in this industry for a while. So I was like, what do you guys mean? Put me on a tour. I was like, fine, let's do like five, six shows. But like they offered me around 50 shows, 50 or 60 shows. And I was like,

That's crazy. And so I had to do a lot of thinking because I was like, wait a second, this is a once in a lifetime kind of opportunity. So I would love to take on it. And so I was just like, you know what? Fuck it. Let's do it. Let's do stand up comedy tour.

So everything from the very beginning to it, to the smallest part of it, from the smallest bit of it, I was involved. The video trailer, the name picking, everything about the show. I was even so anxious and so worried that I asked them, like, I need someone to help me write my jokes because I just don't know how to put them. And then so we went to like literally, I think 10 to 20 interviews of like well-known writers and writers.

Almost like ghost writers. Or comedians. Who writes jokes. And none of them were really just getting my humor. Or how I like things. Because again. I don't know if you guys know me. But I'm a tourist. I'm very specific with a lot of things that I do. Even with my social media. Nobody is touching my social media. People are.

sometimes asking me questions like john like who is running your social media i was like i am running my social media no one else is writing my social media because i cannot let other people handle my own business because i'm very specific on how i do things even the editing i do the editing of my own videos because that's just me as a person

So anyways, we interviewed so many comedian writers and none of them were just hitting it. And we're getting closer and closer to the tour or like getting everything set up. And so I was like, you know, I'll just sit down and write everything myself and see and go from there. And hopefully people will actually like how I write things or how I do things. And then so with the help of one of my good friend, Nick Guerra, he helped me write.

fix all of my scattered ideas because i wrote at least like 18 pages of jokes from nursing and they're like john this is not an hour of stand-up comedy this is too much you have to like lower it down to like one page and make sure that the one page is consisting of all the jokes that you want and i was like that's impossible for me to do because i've never done that before

And then she's like, just tell me exactly what are the most important jokes to you. I was like, first of all, my life before I became a nurse, when I became a nurse, after I became a nurse and all the shit that's in between of it. And then for some reason, I came up with a whole set of show that I have been performing and will be performing for 2025. That is right. My show was built.

by me written by me and everything of it is from me and to me that was crazy because again like I over like underestimate myself with a lot of things because I'm a perfectionist or I don't know OCD or anything like that but I don't like looking bad in front of others or at least like my work looking bad because just growing up Filipino that's the whole thing like everything has to be perfect kind of thing

And then so I wrote a whole set. I practiced it many, many times before we head to the tour. And when we released the tour, half of the tour were sold out after like a week, which is to me is insane again, because I was like, oh my God.

I was like, I'm performing in this thousand-seater seats with a bunch of people who's going to be watching me on stage perform. And I cannot fuck that. And so I practiced and I practiced. I was in Brea. I was in Oxnard. I was in many places here in California just trying to get everything popular.

polish because every single show that i was doing there's always something to improve on and then anyway so september 14 i think the first run of the tour it was in morristown new jersey wow i was shaking in my boots because if you guys know i'm always western in my outfit that's just my persona and

Wow. It was like I was dreaming that I was standing on stage. I brought my mom in Morristown, New Jersey, so she can support me too. And that was just crazy to me because I never imagined or never expected that I would be performing in front of thousands of people. And then Morristown turned to Connecticut, turned to Rhode Island, turned to Philadelphia, turned to many other

Many many cities... That I have never thought... I would be visiting... In my whole life... And... I just want to say thank you... To every single... Besties... Who have shown up for me... In all of those cities... That we visited... Because you guys...

You all make my heart full. And seeing every single one of you laugh. Relieves so much anxiety. And so much stress to me. Because again. I don't know. It's just like. This was just. Sorry. I'm getting a little bit emotional. It was such a fever dream. Because there was so much work behind it. That nobody ever seen. Like absolutely.

I was constantly working 24-7 and still now working 24-7, putting this tour together and to see it come to life and to see all the people who have taken their time off to be with their friends, husband, family, colleagues to come out and see me makes me so happy. Seeing everybody laugh a little, seeing everybody forget their problems just for that night makes me happy.

Every time my opener, Nick, like his last one minute, I always pray every single time to God and ask him, please give me the strength to be able to give my best, my energy, my compassion, my positivity to make all these people laugh, to make all these people forget their problem just for tonight. For all these people to laugh at the problem just for tonight.

Because it's so hard to be in healthcare and to work in healthcare. And I could just imagine every single one of the besties who showed up. You never know what they're going through. And so whenever I do VIP meet and greets after the show, I get to talk to some of you guys. And you guys sharing your stories of like how I lifted you guys up in your darkest time in your life. Or when you were going through some deep, deep pain.

dark situation my videos and the things that i've been doing in social media helps you get back on your feet or find the light at the end of the tunnel makes me even happier because i feel accomplished i feel like i've done my part i feel like i'm nursing

I'm nursing in here. I'm nursing those who are nursing others. And for me, it's giving you guys that ability to see the positive and all the negatives that we're dealing with in healthcare because it's hard. It's hard in healthcare and it's just getting harder and nothing is changing. And it's for change to happen. We all have to fight for it. Even our own rights to safety, our own rights to a safe environment and stuff like that, or a ratio, we still have to fight for it.

And so being able to be that person that can make you all laugh, like I look at myself as the clown. If I can be the clown, if I can be your escape goat to the reality we're facing every single day, I'm so happy. I'm so, so, so, so happy.

And so I was on the road most of the time since September, you guys. Every single week, we had a show. Every single week, I was visiting different cities and states. And it was fun. It was such an experience because I told myself, I was like, I would never visit this place if it wasn't for the tour. But then, and I got to visit those places that gives me so much more to learn, like everything.

cultural wise, meeting new people, seeing new adventures and stuff. Like I was in Wisconsin, I was in Connecticut, in Philadelphia. Like there's just so many places that I visited that I, again, I'm so thankful for. And I thank my team for that for sure. Kyle,

my tour manager angelo my editor michael my videographer photographer and logan my ultimate ultimate homegirl my manager who has been with me from the very beginning and we've dreamed of so many things and we're still dreaming of so many things and we made it all happen

And without them, I don't think I would have been able to survive because on the road to you guys, you have no idea. Sometimes it gets to you like I should not be complaining because again, like I'm doing something that it's not a nine to five job or like it's not.

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Some people would find us super offensive, but I was like, girl, you know what? Hell yeah. You're right. I'm fucking tired. Because it gets to you guys. You guys have no idea that... Let's say we're in Rhode Island today. So we get a hotel. We sleep. We sleep.

We wake up in the morning, we grab some breakfast and lunch. We make contents because we also make content for every city that is something that I wanted to do. So we go to different places because we also want to explore those places that we visit, right?

And so we visit those places, we make contents. And after we make content, we get like an hour of rest back in the hotel. And after the hour of rest, we have to go to the venue before because we have to do soundcheck. We have to prepare everything. And sometimes it's not only one shows. There's two show that night.

And what I'm telling people, I think, is that stand-up comedians or people who make other people laugh, it's like nursing. They give so much of themselves, all their positivity, their energy, their hypeness, their everything. And at the end of the day, they're drained.

Because they don't have that anymore. Because they give it to those who need it. Like the people who comes into the show and needs laugh, right? And we get to the hotel. It's about like 12 to 1 a.m. And then we sleep for like five hours or four hours sometimes because we have to drive to the next show.

city and usually this city is like four hours or eight hours drive and the reason why we're driving so we don't have a tour bus because i'm not rich like that okay we rent a van from like hertz or like something in the airport we rent like a big caravan van and we use that to drive because we find that it would be harder to fly for like an hour to go to the next city

And though it's going to be like five, six hours of drive, it's much better because we can actually take some pause on the road. Like if we want to go to a gas station and pee or eat a little bit on the side of the road that we find like a mini restaurant, we could do that. So then we drive. But also that's exhausting because we're consistently sitting or like I lie down at the back of the car.

because that's my little cabin and everyone's sitting down. But also it gets exhausting because we wake up super early in the morning so that we can get to the next venue, next city. And then we don't rest because we have to make content and we get like 30 minutes so that we can go to the next soundcheck. And for some reason, like I don't get tired of it. Not until I go back to Los Angeles, which is where I live right now. And yeah,

You just really feel how draining it is. But then the adrenaline just keeps going and going. I'm so happy. And that's why I kind of put some boundaries on things. Like, for example, like, refusing to add, like, a second or a third or a fourth show in a city or a place just because I realize, like, as much as I love this job right now that I have and I'm super grateful, I'm super thankful, I should not be abusing my skills.

myself in a way that I don't want to be pushing myself doing too much because I can do too much that's just how I am as a person but I learned to set my boundaries and say like hey you know what I would just like to have one show for this city because the next city is more tiring there's like an

eight hour drive i think i would want to be able to rest in the car sleep a bit and do all those things and i have made sure that my boundaries are set just like how i learned from therapy and stuff and so i'm working on that and now it's built even though at the last run of the tour and i just want to preface this for the people who have been waiting to see me in kansas city missouri in atlanta in new york the naya beach and all the other places that was postponed

I needed to postpone those shows because of some problems, personal problems that I have to deal with in my life that I cannot disclose right now to you guys. But I just want you guys to know that I have to choose me first. And I know it was such an abrupt, like a super quick, uh,

short notice and I know you guys have taken those time off PTOs and stuff and I'm really really sorry that I wasn't able to perform for you guys trust me it was such a hard hard moment for me and time because also I just am so

so anxious inside of my head of all the things that's happening but I needed to make sure that everything is gonna be okay with the tour and so I was like okay I had to take a pause it was a collective agreement with my whole team and my agents and stuff that we have to do this so that we can make sure that the tour keeps going but now like I said we just came out with a leg two of the tour now it's back now it's running to all the besties who were supposed to be on the postponed show they're now back

back in track you can still get excited you can still expect me to come to your city and I will come to your city and I will see you and for those who cannot make it that's totally fine Bessie they are offering refunds and they will send you refunds and you can absolutely come whenever you are free again but thank you guys so much again for understanding me and thank you for every single one of you who have checked on me and it really really does mean a lot to me and thank you for understanding my situation and yeah that

kind of what's happening right now in 2024 I think there's so many things that happened in 2024 to me that I am just so grateful for life or just being able to wake up every single day and celebrating life again and I know not everyone could say that or not everyone could

feel that way because we are all going through a lot of things. But I want you, Bestie, to know that if you are going through some dark times right now, if things are not great in your life, I want you to remember that you cannot resolve every single problem that you have in life. If there's a hundred of them, you cannot figure them all out at the same time. Something I've learned from therapy and something I learned for myself is that if

figuring out one thing at a time day by day is the only way for you to resolve all those problems because nothing of you overthinking nothing of you being anxious and thinking like i have to do all of these they are all priorities they are all have to be solved will make them solve all that happens is you overthink and nothing is done

what I've learned is making sure that I accomplish one thing at a time and celebrate that one thing that you accomplish or like resolve and say like hey at least we're moving at least we're doing something at least we're not stuck in the same place and I want you guys to know that and

And I think another thing that happened like a week ago or something was Thanksgiving, right? For those who have celebrated Thanksgiving with their friends and family, I hope you guys had a nice time with your family. And for those who were not able to celebrate Thanksgiving or who choose not to celebrate Thanksgiving, that's totally fine. But I just want you guys to know that during Thanksgiving, I prayed and said, I am thankful for every single one of you for being alive, for being able to be here now, listening to the podcast,

And that is something to be thankful for, waking up every single day because not everyone can do that. Not everyone can have that chance that we all have to be able to wake up every like for another day in our life. And I'm getting a little emotional, but I think like I just want to reconnect back to you guys because I know this podcast is your therapy podcast.

So I just want you guys to know that I'm still here and we're still connected heart to heart. And you guys mean a lot to me. And so I hope you guys know that I did not forget about you. I might be busy, but I always think about every single one of you and making sure that I do the best that I can put out so much content for you guys. Because again, like just being on the road and being on this really crazy places like

Not crazy places, but like all these random places that I've never thought I'll be. I also meet like strangers who know me and they're not even in healthcare. They're not in anything customer service. They just know me for some reason and they watch my video and some of them really do inspire

me to keep going because of the stories they shared to me and i remember this girl okay it's back here in la and i was working out and she came to me and told me she's like john i just wanted to tell you how much you've helped my mother and i was like what do you mean by that like what do you mean like i've helped your mother she's like listen my mom is an immigrant so i'm a first generation immigrant

Daughter of an immigrant. My mom was going through a really really dark time. Of her life. That it got so worse. That we had to bring her to the psych ward. And during those times. You. Your videos.

Help her see some light in her life and remind her that life might get worse or things or problems might bring you down. But at the end of the day, as long as you're positive and you can find like resilience and you can find hope in your life, you can get back up.

And she's like, my mom was a nurse. She was a caregiver for a long, long time. And your video helps kind of like bring back all the memories she had. Maybe bad, maybe good. But you made her laugh and you made her like feel like she's seen that she's heard. And she's like, you also help me find light and guidance to how to

deal with like immigrant parents because I've talked about how I was a first generation immigrant too actually no because I'm an immigrant myself but me and my mom were immigrants in Canada and stuff like that and how like I had to set boundaries with my mom and like really like learn and evolve from our culture in the Philippines and stuff like that it's the same thing for her and she's like you help me stand up for myself you help me be able to speak

to my parents and teach them and you really do make a difference in people's lives and I hope you know that and that for me is just like wow like I didn't know that I have an impact like that from people or like people like see me in that kind of light like more than just my crazy stupid skits that yes it's relatable but also like it's so it's just funny like I never thought people would ever take me seriously and see me in that way and

And it just feels good. It just feels good. And I hope you know that there are people out there too that loves you, that cares for you, that knows your worth, knows who you are and will never leave your side. So I hope you guys know that. That it's not true that nobody loves you. It's not true that nobody cares about you. There are people that cares about you. Just have to know it to find it. I've always told you guys too that family is not blood.

Family is the people who are there for you through the good and the bad times of life. And they never leave or left you. That is the most important family that I consider. And going back to the holiday season, as you can see, I'm all red. That's also because Philly, Philly skincare. And at the same time, it's holiday season. You guys know I'm very festive. This is my favorite season. The only thing I think I miss is the snow back in Canada. I know I hated it.

But like I kind of missed it. But I now I'm trying to like just tell myself that at least now I can choose to have snow instead of like just getting it every single day during winter season. Because right now my mom is sending me so much picture back home and they're just pile of pile of piles of snow. And I was like, I don't want this. Now I get to choose to when I want to go to snow.

Yeah, that's right. That's right. And also an update you guys about my moving here in California. It has been great. Honestly, though, I cannot really rate my living situation in California because I move around June, July, August. But all of those things

I was busy flying back and forth to all the places I was doing shows. And then from September to now, I was also out and about. So my family haven't seen me. My friends haven't seen me. My house that I am renting, I cannot enjoy and I cannot really rate. But honestly, the experience here in California is so great. I think there's no other place like California or Los Angeles. I mean, I don't live in the city city. I live in the valleys.

But I love California. Honestly, I have amazing neighbors who are so thoughtful. They're the ones who invited us during Thanksgiving. And we had our first ever Thanksgiving, American Thanksgiving. We had mac and cheese, sweet potato, pecan pie, everything. I made some potato, Ugratin potato ice cream.

I'm saying it like... I don't know how to... Où gratin? Où gratin is a potato like sliced... Put together... And they're just full of cheese and garlic... And that's why you're probably wondering... Why I have like a bandage on my thumb... It's because I was cooking during Thanksgiving...

And I was so overstimulated from meetings and my family. And I was using the mandolin to chop the potatoes to thinner slice. And let me tell you what happened. I completely forgot to use the tool to slice it instead of your hands. And I sliced my thumb and...

Oh my god, you guys I don't even want to describe it. I'm like gagging right now I'm such a bad kind of nurse because I was literally passing out when I saw blood in my hands my own blood and also it was so painful

That's why I have this thumb bandage. But it's healing now. It should be fine. But yeah, there's just so many things that's happening all at the same time. I am now off for the holidays. The short staff tour is back on track. So if you're going to be there in San Jose, make sure you wear your ugly Christmas sweater because I want to see you guys on your ugly Christmas sweater. And we also have a show in Spokane, Washington, December 26th through 28th.

We're rolling, rolling, rolling. There's so many things happening. I swear, you guys. It's a lot. But it's good. And I'm grateful. But that's what's happening. But yeah, that's kind of like the update of my life, you guys. And I hope...

You guys know that I am always going to try my best to give you guys the best possible content in all sorts of way. And I know you guys missed the podcast for so long and I'm so sorry. It was such a hard move for me to go from...

to Los Angeles and I didn't really had a time to set up my podcast room and my house because there's just so many things happening in my life and so it was harder for me to actually put those together and

But now I'm back. The podcast is back. I hope you guys are listening. And again, thank you guys so much. I hope you guys had a fun time sitting down with me for our first episode back again. I just want to update you guys in my life and what's happening. And again, I will see you guys next week.

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I love you guys so much and I will see you again next week. Stay caffeinated, medicated, and never hydrated. I love you guys so much. Bye.