All right, we're rolling.

First of all, I really enjoyed your book.

It was really excellent.

I got deep into it.

I listened to the audio book and it's in your voice.

So this would be weird sitting in.

It's always weird when you meet somebody for the first time,

and you know, you've heard their book

and you hear them talking for like long periods of time then they're right there but I really enjoyed it man.

I guess I can't change the tone of my voice then no you're used to it okay keep Okay. Keep it. Keep it the way it is. Keep it. Keep it real.

What made you want to write this? Like where did this come from? There's actually two things.

About 10 years ago 11 years ago I had

this really weird experience. I was in San Francisco, it's a lot of breath work

yoga stuff going on there and I kept getting pneumonia. I surf a lot at

Ocean Beach and I thought that that was the reason.

So I kept getting bronchitis, pneumonia year after year.

It just kept happening.

So a doctor, friend of mine suggested a breathing class might help.

I didn't know much about this, but went down, signed up, and was sitting in the corner of

this studio, cold room, legs crossed, breathing in this rhythmic pattern. Nothing crazy, just

and then really slow. And I sweated through my t-shirt, through socks my hair was sopping wet sweat all over my face

So I went back to her and I said what happened like you're a doctor you should And she said, oh, you must have had a fever,

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