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Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader Spencer Henry and it's Friday, which means it's time for a little leader my favorite day of the week, where I get to read the stories that you send to me.

If you have a story you would like to send in, go ahead and send it on over to Spencer at Cult Leader.com and put little leader somewhere in the title or the subject so I know where to find it.

We have so many good emails today and we have so many good emails just in general. In my inbox right now there is a plethora of cat-bushing, pyramid schemes, just anything and everything.

You could ask to be in your email inbox. Hope everyone had a nice week, calm week. Let's take a second. Let's take a mental health second. I want to say this because it's just something that's been, I feel like I'm like a pastor or like a youth pastor and I'm coming to tell you a message.

But truly, I've been having this conversation. It's come up a lot this week and some like maybe other people want to hear about this too. But I've talked about it before on here at Very Into Gratitude and it's a conversation I've been having a lot with friends lately of, I feel like when you feel like something's missing in your life or you feel like things just aren't necessarily going how you want them to go or you're just feeling kind of like whatever about everything.

I feel like practicing gratitude is such a good way to completely enhance your life. I've done the magic which is by the people who did the secret. I have a lot of my friends doing it right now.

28 days of gratitude, this isn't sponsored but it's 28 days of gratitude basically and they say you know it takes like 28 days to build a habit.

I truly feel like when you're grateful for everything in your life and you're grateful for all the opportunities you have or I mean just day to day things. I feel like it just gives you a different more positive outlook.

I feel like when you're grateful for the things that you have, only only good can come. That's my, that's my positive message of the week. So it's called the magic. I recommend doing that. I don't know, try it out. Let me know.

I feel like it's helpful for you. Let's look at my note. Oh, okay. So first things first. I told you guys in the last little leader. I would do a giveaway with the book I read for the murder and Roanoke episode. It's called Let's Kill Mom by Donna Fielder. So how about we do this?

If you are in the US and you would like to enter the giveaway comments on today's post and leave a little book emoji in your comments so that I know you're entering.

I'll pick someone on Sunday because I feel like that gives people who won't be able to listen to this today. The opportunity to enter. I'm really excited about Monday's episode. I posted it on my personal Instagram but I have my friend Tina Major Reno joining me for the episode and Tina is just, she's so good. She's, she's awesome.

One of those people where you feel like, oh, I can just talk to her forever. And I'm so excited for you guys to hear the episode. I don't want to tell you what we're talking about. But I will say that she has a pretty interesting story from when she was on the set of Water World. And you won't want to miss it. What else has been going on? Oh, on Thursdays of Bicciware. It is probably my favorite one yet. Madison talked about Fontanius preservation on the episode.

And you guys, when I was editing, I was like, cry, lop. It was, it's, you just have to, you have to hear it. But, but God is, it was the best.

All right. I guess it's time we move into some emails. Oh my God. Okay. So this first one, the title is Same Ninja Assassin. Question mark.

You'll know where this is going. So I said, okay, your last little leader about the Ninja Assassin. That is way too similar to a story I got from a guy I went to high school with. His name was Andrew and one day after much hesitation and nervousness decided to tell me on my front porch that he was a ninja assassin. Super nerdy dude into anime and fantasy stuff. But like same.

He also had issues with his stepdad and mom just like in the episode. There was this weird thing with his heart as well. However, it wasn't a hole in his heart. He told me one time in Florida. He had this operation done to his heart that would basically let it pump faster to push more adrenaline through his body. So he would be better at his job of.

And he could control it at will not going to lie. I went along with it all because it was heckin fun on top of all that. He told me his secret because he was trying to impress me because he wanted to date. I told him I couldn't be with a ninja assassin. But we could still be friends. This was around 2001 slash 2002. I don't know what would be better.

If this were the same person or if multiple people use this story because they think it's cool. It's signed from Lisha. Okay, you guys we need this to be confirmed. If you were the one who sent in the ninja assassin story, please confirm because how amazing would that be I would lose my mind. I mean what are the odds. I mean this world is smaller than all of us know. I've had a lot of crazy weird coincidences since doing cult later.

So I'm excited to hear if this is in fact the same person. Our next story says the world was created by my werewolf friend, which I don't know if I've read this one through yet. But I just want to say thank you because when I ask for stories about werewolf or vampires, you guys really, you really come through always. Hi there Spencer greetings from Germany. Hi.

After listening to the story of a cult babe dating a ninja assassin in your recent little leader, I thought I could share a similar story with you in the cult. I changed the names in this email because as funny and outlandish as this story is to me. I don't want to expose the person. We were all dumb teens once. Please don't also please don't mention my name. Thank you.

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