I'm not on any meds. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I was, however, in the hot Texas sun filming for six or seven hours right before we went on camera, and I wasn't feeling very well. At all.
We're not exactly known for being professional -- so I'll skip your unsolicited advice -- but we are known for keeping our word to our audience. And we told our audience that we'd do our very best to never miss a week of PSILY, no matter what. So Greg harassed some folks at RT we barely knew to give us a corner to work in in what was literally a small office in an out-of-the-way warehouse, a camera with a faulty battery that died halfway through the shoot, and some mics. We had significant technical difficulties even getting things working at all. Our mics gave out 20 minutes in, and we had to use the shotgun mic instead. That shoot took way longer than it should have, and we jumped over quite a few hurdles -- with the help of some kind folks -- to make it happen at all.
But we still posted something -- due mostly to Greg's hard work both before and after the shoot -- because we said we would. And I guarantee you, most of the audience will be just fine with it, and thankful that we did our best to deliver, even if we were absolutely shot. It's like the old days of Podcast Beyond, when we'd record post-GDC and post-E3 episodes with a voice recorder. I guess that was when the Internet was just a little kinder, and a little more understanding that there are real people with real feelings putting forth real effort on the other side of the vitriol people like you spew.
You can make things personal if you want (and you clearly want to), but here's my advice: If you don't like the show, don't watch it. And trust me, I speak for Greg on that front, too. For everyone else who understands our humor, understands that we wear our hearts on our sleeves, and understands that we have our on weeks and off, we salute you.
I hope the rest of you are doing well. -Colin