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Back to episode — Episode 3019 CWSA 11/15/25

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pressions they have, and then I take a look at it to make sure that I communicated well. So as of today, today's comic is drawn by my assistant. And if you want to see how that looks compared to my drawing, you're going to find out that she's a better artist than I am, but it won't look different to you because, like I said, she's been drawing it for years. So it's not going to look different at a…

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wo of them really. One was drowning, just an irrational fear. And the other was something happening to my hands. That's why I taught myself to draw left-handed because I thought, you know, I don't want to have the risk. Very unusual for an artist to teach themselves to draw with both hands. I've never even heard of it. But I had this irrational fear that I would lose the ability to draw with one hand. So I taught myself to draw left-handed, which I have for now a while.

But my right hand got burned out by something called focal dystonia. It's actually the same problem I had with my voice. It's a spasm in a muscle from overuse. So it has nothing to do with that other thing that people get in their hand. It has nothing to do with any other thing. It's focal dystonia is what it's called. So when I got the focal dystonia, I moved to my left hand. But more recently in the last month or two, my left hand has become paralyzed from presumably, I don't know, I'm guessing a tumor that's laying on some nerve or something.

So try to calculate these odds. What are the odds that I would be first

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of all obsessed with not having a problem with my hands and that I would have two separate problems at the same time. They had nothing to do with each other. What are the odds of that? Because I'll bet not one of you wakes up in the morning worried about your hands. I'm the only one. The only one worrying about it. And both hands got taken out at the same time by completely different situations.…

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