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Good morning. Happy Monday. Let me get my Locals comments separated. We're going to have a good show today. Oh, so good. You're going to learn about persuasion and cussing and so much more. So much more. Oh, so good.

Oh, what? That shouldn't have happened. Let me try this. There we go. That's better. There we go. Come on in. Come on in.

All right, let me give a little announcement while you're streaming in. If you were subscribing to get Dilbert Reborn, those are the naughty and daily comic strips, you may have noticed that I missed a week while I was in the hospital. I did post the few extra that were in the can, but my art director and I need to catch up. So I'm going to try over the next month to up my production of comics from once a day to 1.5 a day. And somewhere around a month, I should get back to current.

So the dates on the comics will look old. They'll be a week old and five days old and four days old because, as you know, I am genetically incapable of being lazy. So I'm completely aware that you would give me a pass for being in the hospital. Am I right? Like there's nobody who would say, "Oh, I'm going to unsubscribe because I missed five days of comics while you're in the hospital." I don't think you will do that. But the reciprocity for that is I'm going to try really hard to make sure that I produce the 100%. It's just going to take a little extra work.

Now I think I can do it because I had already evolved into doing the writing and then just doing some art direction for my actual artist who worked with me for years and can draw Dilbert better than I can. So you'll see a little bit of difference in the drawing, probably mostly in the backgrounds. So at this point the characters will look exactly the way they should. That should be perfect. But there might be different choices made for the background art. And I'm also working with my artist to see if I can close that gap a little bit.

All right. So that's enough about that.

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