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Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Patreon, Light the Fight.

If you're new to Patreon, welcome and thank you for joining us here.

We're going to be actually posting this episode on a regular Light the Fight channel this next week

because this particular question that I got from a parent,

I thought would be something that would be great for Patreon,

but I really thought it would be good for our regular listeners as well.

If you want to learn more about Patreon, go to www.

Patreon.com backslash Light the Fight.

It's basically a paywall where you pay five bucks a month and you get a couple extra

videos, well, four extra videos every single month, not just a couple, one a week.

So today's episode and today's video is going to be about the art of trash talking.

Now, or probably better said is I'm going to help your kids become the comeback kids.

So one of the interesting things that have come up in the years I've been working with teenagers

from day one is teenagers would come to me and they'd tell me frustrations they'd have with

other teenagers that would make jokes at their expense.

Maybe it was their friend that was talking a little smack to them.

Poking them a little bit.

Sometimes with some boys I've talked to, it was sports related.

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