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[00:00:00] Hey everybody, this is Mr. Pick Me and the Man Hater, sort of, this week. This is Chesco, uh, and, and I'm just doing a quick check in with our audience. As most of you know, neither Reagan or I do this show as a full time job. Or even really as a part time job. The money we make from ads basically just pays for what it costs to produce the show.

Normally we record our show on the Wednesday of every week. Which on this week, just happened to be the day after the election. And we signed on to record and we just didn't have it. All right, we wanted to, we wanted to bring you a distraction from all that's going on, but we just did not have anything in the tank to record a show.

We'll be back next week with a normal show, but I did want to still come on here and touch base with you all and kind [00:01:00] of share a little bit about what I have been reflecting on for anyone that's feeling the same way that, that Reagan and I are feeling right now. This sucks. There's no nice way to put it.

I spent half this month away from my family, traveling to swing states, campaigning and canvassing in hopes of a different outcome, only to see this. But just today, I was reflecting on something that I was told as a brand new teacher, you know, 20 years ago, and, and I think it's applicable to, to how we're feeling right now.

I was told that you have to teach with a willingness to have your heart broken every day. Because when you stop doing that, you become angry and vindictive. And above all, you become apathetic and the people that, that needs you in your classroom, aren't getting the teacher they deserve. And I [00:02:00] think it's, it's very easy to feel this heartbreak.

We, and if you listen to this podcast, probably most of you are feeling right now and want to become apathetic. Because that's, that's easy. If you don't care, you can't have your heart broken. And the fact that I feel so sad and angry right now, it means I cared. And it means I was willing to allow myself to care, knowing that this was a possibility.

And I don't want to ever stop being that person. So I'm going to keep fighting. I'm going to keep talking. I'm going to keep working and I'm going to keep being willing to have my heart broken. And it's through community like the ones we have on the show that, that we can put those pieces back together to try again and hopefully [00:03:00] have a different outcome next time.

So once again, sorry we did not have a full episode this week, but we just needed a little time to, you know, reconvene and, and recover and focus on healing a little bit. And I hope you all did the same as well. Take some time away from social media because it's rough right now. Love you all