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Let me show you a better way.

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Welcome to episode 3221 of the Survival Podcast.

And as always, after a long break, it's good to be back.

It also means that having not done a live show now for about two weeks, full two weeks,

I might have a little bit of timing off today or something like that.

So if I do apologize in advance, but I wanted to come out in 2023.

2023, that just sounds weird, doesn't it?

Swinging right for the fences in the beginning about the reality of what we're about to endure.

And I really say continue to endure.

As you might have noticed, the title of today's episode is 2023 and the coming shit storm of opportunity.

Let me tell you how we got that title.

So I went on Twitter and I set up a poll and I said, what should I call the first new episode of the year?

Should we call it the coming shit storm or a great opportunity?

And the opportunity won one.

And I'll admit, when I first came up with the idea for the title, I know when I go doom and gloom with the title,

more of you guys show up, especially to the live feed.

Like the downloads are pretty consistent on the audio podcast, which has always had way more people than the videos ever corner.

But definitely I get more people when I go a little dark with the title.

But as I thought about it, it said, you know, the great opportunity won by a landslide, like no political election,

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