HOW BREAKING PROMISES TO YOURSELF IS WORSE THAN YOU THINK

This episode almost didn't happen. And somehow, it may have turned out to be the most important LATE NIGHT RADIO SHOW I've done yet.

The last two weeks have been rough. A family member was airlifted to the hospital, I got sick myself, and life decided to kick me square in the nuts.

So I missed two shows.

Big deal, right? It's just a little passion project. A hobby. Nobody's paying me to show up. Nobody's going to fire me if I don't.

Except there's one problem.

I made a promise to myself.

And I'm getting really tired of being the guy who breaks promises to himself.

So at the very last minute, with absolutely no plan, I walked downstairs to the studio, dimmed the lights, turned on the microphone, and opened the phone lines.

And something happened.

I don't know how else to describe it, but I felt like I was channeling someone. The words just came. No notes. No prepared bits. Just me, a microphone, and some things I apparently needed to get off my chest.

Then the Wombats started calling.

And holy shit.

You guys didn't just match my energy. You took it somewhere I never could have gone alone.

THE QUESTION OF THE NIGHT:

What promises do you keep making to yourself that you keep breaking?

We talked about how those seemingly insignificant broken promises slowly chip away at our self-respect. How every time we let ourselves down, we teach ourselves that our own word doesn't mean much.

And how that shit can snowball into something much bigger.

I also opened up about something I've been feeling for a while.

I don't necessarily want you to LIKE the LATE NIGHT RADIO SHOW.

I want you to FEEL it.

I want you to turn it off feeling a little less alone. A little more understood. Maybe even a little more willing to take a chance on yourself.

Because that's what late-night radio always meant to me.

To every Wombat who called in, opened up, made me laugh, or reminded me why I'm doing this in the first place...

Thank you.

You didn't just save the show. You reminded me why I made that promise to myself.

And somewhere along the way, we all went to another level.

This wasn't the show I planned. It was the show I needed.

Welcome to the LATE NIGHT RADIO SHOW.

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