Hello everybody welcome to Mindful Metal Jacket. I am Joe List and I am

happy that you are listening. I hope that you are also happy that you are

listening. right?

Folks, it's becoming increasingly obvious that I should

rehearse these intros, maybe write something down, get some thoughts together. I just re-hit,

re-hit record. I don't re-hit it. I should re-hit it on this one because this is horrible but I hit record I start

chatting I'm here and so are you and we're all here be here now

Ram Das said that.

Folks, how are you doing? I hope you're well. We got some exciting news about COVID.

They don't, doesn't spread from asymptomatic people and then five hours later they were like just kidding.

These are confusing times. How are you doing with it? How are you holding up?

It seems like we're back. New York is opening. The country is opening.

I hear it's spiking in some states and New York had no cases no new cases I can't tell what the

hell's going on here but I'm here I'm out in Long Island and it's beautiful and sunny and breezy and warm and

Sarah is here and we did stand-up paddleboards yesterday and swam in the pool and

swam in the ocean and we're hiking. You know I feel guilty guilty of having the time of my life the whole world's coming apart but we talk about a little bit in this episode

You can turn it off maybe that's bad. I don't know. Maybe that's privilege or whatever. But you

can avoid social media and turn off the news for at least a few hours. I recommend it, taking a break, meditating, talking to some friends,

loved ones, maybe making love. Who knows? Swimming, get into a natural body of water, a natural body of land if you have the means.

Even if you're in New York, go to Central Park, the ramble, just keep your dog on the leash.

Take a break from it, you know?

Maybe you're listening to this podcast, you're taking a nice walk.

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