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Hello everyone! WILD day today! I don’t have much to add here that isnt in the video, so watch it if you want my thoughts on the midterms

Other than that, be good to yoursleves and have a great week!

More later

Corey

I’ll never paywall this thing, but every little bit sure helps! Love ya!

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Today was the best day I’ve had in 3 months! So I figured since I shared my struggle yesterday, I’d share my success today! Show notes, chapters, and transcript below!

* What helped: several nights of good sleep, water, magnesium, walks and one cup of coffee

* Why “Christmas dinosaur” (Kermit) is the best name for Kermit

* Early voting turnout, and why Corey thinks it signals frustration

* How money, healthcare and for-profit prisons feed anxiety and depression

* Why Corey wants millennials to lead and leave things better for the next generation

* Plugs: the Substack, Cameo (book on the website, not the app), Putting on Airs (out Friday) and Hollywood Hellscapes

Chapters

* 0:00 Cold open: “everything sucks”

* 0:08 A new attitude: tomorrow really is a better day

* 0:36 What helped me feel better

* 1:06 The morning my son woke me up

* 1:34 A productive day and the library as an office

* 3:02 Depression, memory loss and the quick-fix loop

* 3:56 Muppet Christmas Carol and “Christmas dinosaur”

* 5:21 Early voting and midterm turnout

* 6:17 Why life feels unaffordable

* 8:38 Healthcare, crime and for-profit prisons

* 11:01 Politics and capitalism vs. socialism

* 13:19 The fall of Sears

* 14:43 “I can sit with it today”: faith and hope

* 15:41 Millennials stepping into leadership

* 17:57 Why I wanted to share this

* 19:19 We keep showing up

* 20:17 Thank-yous, Cameo and projects

* 22:02 Sign-off

0:00–0:02

We are the richest country.

0:02–0:08

And we have the most technologically advanced society we’ve ever had, and everything f*****g sucks.

0:08–0:33

Well, hey Substackers, it’s your boy Corey, coming to you a day after a a lengthy chat on depression and how everything sucks. Coming to you with a different attitude today, which I think is necessary because it is I’m living proof that the whole tomorrow is a better day is true. Of course, it’s not always the exact next day. and I suppose that considering this.

0:33–1:03

BS that’s been going on in my head has has gone on for several weeks to a month to possibly more months than it it certainly wasn’t just tomorrow’s another day. But hey, it eventually happened, as it always does. I woke up feeling amazing. didn’t have to take any drugs other than coffee to get that way. You know what I mean? Didn’t cheat. Didn’t cheat any. I let I let a good night’s rest several nights in a row just just do it for me. Stayed hydrated.

1:02–1:31

Took some magnesium, went for some walks, and we’re back. I woke up feeling absolutely marvelous. My son woke me up at 6 30 in the morning going, Dad, Dad, get my clothes. It’s time for school. And I was like, baby, we’ve still got an hour before we have to leave. And he goes, Okay. And he laid back down and went to sleep. And it was at that moment I thought, I might be back. I might this is looking really good. And sure enough, yeah, dropped him off at school, immediately got in.

1:30–1:57

17,000 steps, immediately wrote 2,500 words, made a couple videos for social media, did some outlining for the podcast, just crushing it. Walked around my hometown, went to the library, which is where I did some of my outlining. I I I I’ve made the the library like an office of mine, which I know a lot of people do that. That’s not weird. but

1:56–2:25

It it’s helpful when my son comes home from work or when my son comes home from school because I am like I love my office upstairs and I’m I’m far away from the family, but I’m still not strong enough to where if my son s yells up and says, Dad, dad, come down and play, I’ma do it. I’ma do it. Even if I’m in the middle of something important, I’ma do it. And I know I gotta get better about that, you know, if we want to continue to have, you know, food and shelter and

2:25–2:52

And clothes and cool stuff for Christmas and all those things. But I’ma do it. So I have to take that away from me and just go to the library, which is nice. I get to see all my friends at the library. we had a nice conversation today. They were very appreciative that I posted a video for them yesterday, even though I kinda I didn’t remember even doing that. I was just walking around and I had just gone to the library and I guess I posted something hey, the library’s great. Look what I just got. and that’s a that’s a weird

2:51–3:21

That’s part ADD, but also part I think depression. I think memory loss happens when you’re floating through in the void, you just do stuff and then it just goes away. Maybe you’re chasing like any serotonin that you could possibly grab without it being, you know, like ser like serotonin in the way of like booze or like you know, some type of pill or something that you know is is all and I don’t mean like

3:21–3:45

depression medication. That’s obviously great. What I mean is recreational stuff that don’t get me wrong. in if you need to just suffer thro through a day and feel better and and get stuff done, that stuff works. But it also creates a loop that you you sometimes can’t get out of because then the next day you got stuff and now you’re even more depressed and it’s just an endless cycle. And Lord knows I’ve been there too many times.

3:44–4:11

And we decided this this this go around right. We’re not doing that. We’re not we’re not doing that. We’re just going to eat good foods and drink lots of water and surround ourselves with positive imagery. And for me, that is the Muppet Christmas Carol on repeat. And luckily my son loves that too. He does not call it the Muppet Christmas Carol, he calls it Christmas dinosaur because that is what Kermit is. Kermit is Christmas dinosaur.

4:11–4:39

If my son ever learns his real name is Kermit and starts calling him Kermit instead of Christmas dinosaur, I will cry. I will fall down on my knees. I will weep. I’m certain that you that you you as parents have those certain words that your kid used to say, and now they don’t say them like that anymore. And it’s like, yes, great, sign of progress. They’re learning, but also boo. My niece had so many of those. So many of those. And once they went away, it was like, we’re so glad that she’s learning and growing. But at the same time,

4:39–5:07

Lord, if you’re out there, if you’re real, could you please just freeze this moment in time and let us experience it for five years without any other consequences? just give us five years of this exact moment and then you can restart the clock and that’d be great. But obviously not how it works. So I’m having a good time. Got my official buttercream dream tumbler here. I can’t remember which one of y’all sent this to me, and I apologize because

5:07–5:36

People send me things all the time and y’all are wonderful people. But whichever one it was of you that got me this buttercream dream tumbler, I appreciate it. I’m drinking out of it a a magnesium drink, which always makes me feel better. And something that made me feel better. There was a the library is is is right beside our voting precinct, and there was a lot of people there. there was a lot of people for the early vote too last week, including your boy, a lot, a lot, a lot of people.

5:35–6:00

And we all know statistically what early voting means. Yay. But people were out there, people were fired up. I saw some people that I was like, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen them voting before. And also statistically, if you have a major turnout in the midterms, it is often indicative of not being happy with the way things are going. And I’ve said this a million times. I know this I know this is a

6:00–6:29

a depression and anxiety podcast, it seems like. But I think a big contributing factor of the ongoing depression and anxiety that I feel and you feel and a lot of people feel has a lot to do with these a******s that we keep electing. And by we electing, I didn’t vote for them, but you know, the populace did, getting in there and taking s**t away from us. Things that used to just be awesome. You know, back in the day, like obviously being poor always has sucked, you know, but

6:28–6:55

At least back in the day, if you were a little broke, you know, you could you c…

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Made a video about depression that hopefuly makes you feel better about yours:)

Transcript:

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What’s up, everybody? It’s your boy Corey Ryan Forster. I just wanted to pop on and talk to all my fellow d depression heads, folks that suffer with the sad, and let you know just how much you were seen today, specifically by me. because man, really going through it. That wasn’t supposed to be Christopher Walken, but it kind of came out that way.

Like th this is one of the the the more difficult things about depression, I think, is like when you’re smart enough to know that it’s a thing that you’re just going through and it’ll be over, but it like it didn’t f*****g matter. God damn it doesn’t help. I mean, it does a little bit. Like it gives you a semi sense of relief, but like it can depression, in my opinion, can turn well, not in my opinion, I think it’s a f a f*****g fact.

Like it can turn into like a a physical sickness. And I’ve like I’ve I’ve worked myself into being physically sick over this b******t. Like e every day for the past three weeks I’ve just been like get over it yourself, quit it, stop it, blah, blah, blah. And it has like worked itself into a physical sickness, which is stupid. It’s so dumb. Like to even let your brain do anything to you feels stupid. And then

To let your brain like affect your other organs and your stomach feels like ultra stupid. So I feel stupid and worthless. I I know that I’m not either of those things. I mean, I’m a little I mean, you know, I g I’m I’m a little of those things. But like I’m aware that I’m not, but I’ve God, do I feel it right now just so much. And I I both hate

That there are so many of you out there going through the exact same thing right now, but at the same time, and I’m sure you agree with me, kinda happy that it’s not just me. You know, that’s nice to know. But it is just s**t, you know, especially when I I promise you all those like mind over matter pieces of s**t, like brother, let me tell you how dumb that is. Like every like yesterday.

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I went to bed going, this is it. This is going to be my week. It doesn’t matter what your brain tries to tell you, Corey. This is going to be your week. You’re a strong willed person. You’re a very strong willed person. I mean, whenever you want to, you can lose 50 pounds like that. You’ve given up substances and booze and and all this stuff on a whim and and you’ve you’ve written books and you’ve d you’re you’re a very strong willed person. And all that is so true.

But no matter but then I woke up this morning and I was just like, my God, the weight of the world, the weight of this blanket, the weight of everything. Why? And, you know, whether it’s I think it could it could be a combination of like, yeah, it’s like you’re my own in internal depression, but also like there is something to be said about like what is going on in the world right now and how that like negative, it’s like real like when you’re when your brain is already

hitting against you and then the world sucks, it kind of makes it harder. Like you you go, damn it, this is gonna be my day. And then you look at the news and you’re like, f**k, this ain’t nobody’s day, man. Why the hell would you have a good day when nobody else is going to? And then you start feeling like if you’re like me, you start feeling guilty for the idea that you could have a good day. You’re like, damn, like so you’re saying that like you you can just choose to have a good day tomorrow.

You’re gonna wait, you’re gonna be happy, you’re gonna choose happiness when like there’s so many people that don’t get to decide that. Their houses are being blown up. They’re getting raided by ice, they’re getting taken away from their families, but you’re gonna have a good day. But then you go, Well, yeah, I mean, f**k, dude. They would try to if they could have a good day, they would. They’d probably be mad at you if you didn’t and you’re allowed to. Like imagine

Being somebody who’s not allowed to have a good day and then looking at someone who is allowed to have a good day and being like, Really, you’re not gonna have a good day? Like, you know you could, right? I would f*****g love to have a good day. And there you go. You know what I mean? That’s almost how I feel about like why if you have white privilege, you should use the s**t out of it. You know what I mean? You should use the absolute s**t out of it because there’s so many people that would love to have it and you’re wasting it. You know what I mean? Not using your white privilege is sort of like,

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When you’re a kid, you don’t finish all your mashed potatoes and peas, and your mom is like, There are kids in Cambodia right now that would love to have them mashed potatoes and peas. And you’re not gonna eat them. You know what I mean? That’s how it feels sometimes to have this overwhelming privilege and not use it. But then at the same time, using it, you’re like, gross. f**k me, advantage that I have that excuse me, excuse me. Hold up.

Well, yes. It could be, by the way, that I actually am just sick and I’m blaming this on depression. I mean, I’m wearing two sweatshirts right now, a hoodie, a hoodie, a toboggan, sweatpants, and clogs. Like warm warm clogs. And it’s not in any way cold in my house, per anyone’s standards, I don’t think. what am I doing to help myself, you may ask?

Well, I’m having this prebiotic cola cherry vanilla made by our friends over at Pepsi. Our friends, they don’t know me. They’re not giving me any money. I normally don’t really drink their drink, but Coca-Cola ain’t come out with one of these yet. So I like They’re they’re kind of really good. And I do notice on days that I drink something that’s labeled as prebiotic.

My tummy does end up feeling better. Now I don’t know the damn difference between prebiotic, probiotic, and antibiotic. It seems like an antibiotic, now I’m getting it and now I’m doing Seinfeld. It seems like a an antibiotic is what you have to have if you don’t have enough prebiotics. But it’s an antibiotic, which is the opposite of a probiotic. But it seems like if you have probiotics a lot, you need antibiotics less.

What is a biotic? I don’t f*****g know. But it is tasty. Cherry vanilla, I mean

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Two undeniable flavors. This also has fiber in it. I know that’s good. You’re supposed to have your fiber. If Dr. Poop medicine woman, Kim Cassado’s listening, yeah, I’m having fiber with this. I’m I had my magnesium or whatever the s**t last night. I’m trying to do all the things. I I am I am. I am. I’m trying to do all the things. And I think that that that part will frustrate you so much.

I think everybody can agree with that. Like when you are doing all the right things and it’s not working, it’s obviously just a matter of time before it does. But so is my toboggan dirty as s**t? it but but it’s so discouraging because you go, Well, damn, I may as well have done the wrong things. Cause the wrong things at least temporarily make you feel good. You know what I mean? Drugs, booze.

Eating shitty, those at least like for a second give you that sweet, sweet serotonin and dopamine that you’ve been lacking. and you’re depriving yourself of that because you want long-term results, but that’s obviously the better way to go. Ain’t it? Somebody answer. For real. Tell me. I’ll go downstairs and eat some Cheetos right now. I’ll go get some drugs right now. No, I won’t. I will not do that. I am a strong willed person. Really just need to talk it out.

Think that’s why I hopped on here. This is also part of the disease. It’s like, well, this is Monday, Corey. You’re supposed to go back to work. It doesn’t really matter how you feel. And that’s that’s the thing too, though. It’s like, it’s like that, that kind of is true for most of soci society. I mean, you gotta, you gotta trudge on even when you don’t feel like it. I wish our system was set u…

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Very sorry for the delay, yall! My more dedicated fans are aware of why but I’ll just keep it at that! (Not a great excuse, but it’s all I got!)

Below you will also find the written version if you prefer it that way and haven’t read it yet, or if you’re like me and enjoy reading a book whilst listening to the audio!

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Caveman Corey say: more money me make. More stories can write!

Enjoy…. Happy Halloween!

Russell Dinkey was sitting on the rock wall in front of the old mansion thinking about stuff he ourt not be thinking about. Not every thought was salacious, of course. The most recent that had popped in his mind was “is Chantilly a color or a liquor drink?”

People tended not to pay Russell much mind. He’d always been a no account, and he was too old at this point to account for much more. Even if he tried.

The fall wind was just starting to blow. He had traded in his holey jean shorts for a pair of plain gray sweatpants. And not the kind that fit right. “My knee sure hurts” he thought to himself. “Must be bout ready to rain.”

About to rain it was. But precipitation wouldn’t be the only thing hindering his 5 mile walk back home. There was a storm of another kind brewing. It had been brewing for years. In the shadows where you dare not look. In the mud where you dare not walk. In the exhaust that you dare not breathe.

A school bus full of children drove by. Many of them shot Russell the bird. Russell didn’t pay them no mind. He had been being mocked since he was their age, and he was quite used to it now. He used to flip them the bird right back, but “round here the police don’t care who started what, only who complains the loudest” Russell thought.

He could have stopped that sentence six words in and still been right.

Russell turned back around to wave and smile at the bus full of children to make anyone looking on know that he took it in stride, but the bus was gone.

“That’s odd. I know they just turned up Bush Holler rd. They couldn’t have made it all the way outta sight without committing a major traffic violation. Not to mention the engines on them yella Bluebird buses can’t haul weight like that” Russell thought while hard candy flavored drool trickled out the side of his mouth.

What Russell didn’t see was that up ahead, a dark portal had opened between the water tower and the General Lee Statue. A pit of emptiness that pulled like a rip current in Orange Beach. But there were no lifeguards. No flags indicating danger. And least of all, no buy one get one shrimp buckets from Uncle Ray’s F*ck and Shuck.

Hell had come to Chickaluki, and unluckily for the town perhaps, their only hope may be a man who once peed in his pants so he wouldn’t have to get out of line at a Porter Wagoner meet and greet.

Back up the road a ways, Russell had already long forgotten what must have been “one of them optical illusions what you see in them Children’s Zoo Magazines” and was busy with what the bulk of his evenings usually consisted of: whittling mini-baseball bats out of tree limbs to use as payment for boiled peanuts down at the Indian Gas station. The owner’s little boy loved them, and if it kept him in free peanuts, Russell would whittle em till he drew blood.

As he stopped to smell a marker he’d had keeping warm in his sock, Russell heard a strange noise coming from where the portal was. At first it was a faint gurgling sort of sound. Like how your parent’s toilet starts sounding after they turn 60 or so and you forget to jiggle the handle. Then it grew louder and clearer. If Russell didn’t know any better (and that was usually the way) he’d have sworn that it was his Momma calling him home for a bowl of cornbread and pinto beans.

Russell’s momma used to put a small dollop of mayonnaise in his bowl along with it and stir it up. Of the many stupid things this man still does, this is NOT one of them. Stupid that is. If you haven’t tried a small spoonful of mayo in your cornbread and pinto beans, then you’ve never really had them done right in my opinion. And for any of you who are gonna say “oooh that’s nasty!” It’s just eggs and oil! That’s all mayonnaise is! Separately, you bougie ass pricks can’t get enough of them, but emulsify them together and all the sudden you’d have to be a window-lickin cousin-f*****r to think it’s delicious. Go f*** yourself you elitist dorks.

I’m sorry. Anyways, where the hell was I? Right. Russell had just heard the Oedipusian siren call of a hillbilly ditch demon and was wondering what the hell was going on. His mother had been dead since Willie wore braids so unless he was finally losing what little of his mind he ever had, there was something untoward afoot.

But lord it sounded just like her. The cheerfulness in her voice when she’d call her kids to supper. The nasally way it’d get towards the end when she was raising it. The subtle undertone of submissiveness to a life she would have never chosen were she allowed to.

“Maybe I’ll just run over there and have a peek” Russell thought with his mouth wide open. “Someone is probably pulling a prank with one of them megaphones the police use to tell me when I need to leave the bar.”

As he approached the now swirling cavern of despair, he clutched one of the mini-baseball bats in his right hand and attempted to summon the courage of his favorite baseball player as a child, Johnny Dickshot of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The sound he had been following began to take shape like it had been sprayed out of a White Diamonds atomizer, and at once, Russell was face to face with the soulless and blood thirsty Succubus before him.

“Boy you sure are a wart-covered ole gal ain’t you?” Russell said with his bottom lip sticking out way further than his top.

“Looks like you need a comb ran thru you!”

The demon, now sprouting endless tails from her backside that were set aflame and smelled of sulfur, leaned back on her cloven hooves and screeched a sound that deafened everyone within town limits and paralyzed them where they stood.

All except Russell, who had picked this exact moment to clean out both of his ears with his pinky fingers. “What was that? Say again?”

The demon laughed arrogantly and reached back with all her might to swipe at Russell with her soot covered claws. It was at this time Russell realized he had dropped his mini wooden bat on the ground when trying to pick a winner in his ears. “Oops. Better not forget my folding money!”

As he bent down to pick it up, the demon swiped over his head, and all her momentum caused her to spin violently and lose her balance and her focus. She slipped, and at once was casted back into the portals of hell from whence she had came, leaving what looked like an oil slick in her place.

The school bus swirled clockwise back into the real world from the portal below, and as quickly as it had opened, it closed back leaving a deathly silence in its wake.

The children screamed but then quickly stopped, all facing ahead as the school bus rolled on like nothing had happened. With their hearing repaired and their memories seemingly erased, the town’s people continued on their merry ways, business as usual.

Russell looked back up at his old world, shocked by what had transpired. “Aww damn it. I think that mighta been diesel I huffed this time!”

He walked down the road as it began to rain. Nothing a bag of boiled peanuts couldn’t fix.

The end

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Hey everybody! Hope you are having a great Monday1 Sorry I was late on this one, but here’s the audio/video version of my latest Chickaluki story!

Really hope you all enjoy it!

Love ya

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Inching closer to the finale (part 3)!

In this episode, I read some of your comments and discuss them, as well as comparing and contrasting my list to that of the NYT and pointing out some of their GLARING OMISSIONS!

Love yall.

More later

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PS. Another entry in the Here We Rest saga will drop tomorrow!

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The New York Times ruffled some feathers this past week and for once it wasn’t because of how they gloss over some of the many horrors coming out of Gaza! (Sorry. My bad. That will be the last political thing I have to say for this series, I promise!)

As any “best of” list by a major publication is wont to do, their “Best TV Shows of The 21st Century” list got many people talking and stirred up a bit of controversy regarding how high up certain shows were, how low others were, and then of course their were some glaring omissions in the opinion of many readers!

Key word there being “opinion”. We all know that art is subjective, and because of that, I have decided to frame my personal list as “favorite shows” instead of “best shows”. Obviously you’d think that if I considered something my favorite, then I must also consider it the best, but that’s actually not true! For instance, I think that The Godfather is one of the greatest movies of all time, if not THE best, but if they were going head to head, I’d much prefer Tombstone (I can almost see the comments pouring in now 😂)

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For this first podcast in what I assume will be at bare minimum a 2 part series, I’ve listed all the shows (off the top of my head) that I consider “contenders” for my personal top 10. I list them in no particular order as far as merit goes, it’s just the order in which they popped in my head when I was deciding to do this. That list is as follows:

My best shows of 21 century. Podcast about this

Mad Men

Breaking Bad

Scrubs

30 Rock

True Detective season 1

Mind hunter

Six Feet Under

Slow Horses

The Wire

Always Sunny In Philadelphia

Veep

The Thick Of It.

Extras

Derek

Afterlife

Game of Thrones

The Expanse

Fleabag

Curb Your Enthusiasm

The Dorals of Corfu

For all mankind

Sugar season 1

Severance

Ted Lasso

Chappell show

The Good Place

Barry

Louie

Billions

Peaky Blinders

Downton Abbey

The Crown

Justified

Doctor Who

Arrested development

Fargo

The Office

Parks and Rec

Eastbound and Down

Homeland

Black Mirror

Reacher

Dexter

Deadwood

Rectify

Derry Girls

House Of Cards

Bojack Horseman

Castlvania

The Boys

Daredevil

Rick and Morty

Plurubis

The Queens Gambit

I think you should leave

ANDOR

Loudermilk

The Pitt

Catastrophe

The Great British Baking Show

I have no doubt left off a lot that are worthy of being on this list, and in my manic state have no doubt added some that do not even warrant being considered, but hey, that’s the fun of it!

Listen and comment down below any omissions you think I made in haste! That will help me structure part 2!

Thank you all for being here! I thought this would make for a fun listen on your Saturday walk!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend!

More Later

Corey

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Ok look, so who knows if it actually falls under any scientific umbrella, and sure, I didn’t even propose a hypothesis (stupid or otherwise) but I did have fun!

I’m also choosing not to mention what it is in the title or in this here description on account of I want you to be surprised!

All I will say is that I MAY have cracked some sort of internet code because the way I see it, if you hate this and think it sucks to the point that you might go to the comment section and write “this sucks!” I don’t think I could get mad.

In fact it may delight me, because those comments would simply be data points on a graph which would help me continue to test this experiment! (Ok but would it though, Corey? 😂)

Y’all have a wonderful rest of your Sunday and I love you and I hope work doesn’t suck tomorrow!

More later

Corey

Y’all, did you know that while you can always listen /watch what I do for free, if I could double my paid subscribers by this time next year, I could justify being a stay at home dad who does nothing but writes and podcasts for you? A long time dream of mine! Help me make it come true if you have the extra coin and my work brings value to your life!

Don’t like recurring payments but still wanna support? I take one time donations, PBS style, of any amount big or small on PayPal at [email protected]

And on Venmo @ButterCreamCorey

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Hey y’all! Pretty simple fare today; thought I’d check in with all my fellow mental health strugglers and reassure you that things do indeed get better!

I hope you all have the best weekend, and if you need cheering up, you can always reach out in the chat!

More later

Corey

Y’all, did you know that while you can always listen /watch what I do for free, if I could double my paid subscribers by this time next year, I could justify being a stay at home dad who does nothing but writes and podcasts for you? A long time dream of mine! Help me make it come true if you have the extra coin and my work brings value to your life!

Don’t like recurring payments but still wanna support? I take one time donations, PBS style, of any amount big or small on PayPal at [email protected]

And on Venmo @ButterCreamCorey

QR codes for both are below! Thank you for your

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