Hey everyone, welcome to your Friday edition of The Nerve.

We have a long awaited episode for you today.

It took us a while, but I think you'll agree it's worth the weight.

It's our first segment on difficult mothers, a subject that is near and dear to me because I, like so many

of you out there, am the product of one. And as we learned from the first part of the Billy Joel

documentary, which I heard from so many of you about, and we will be reading your emails about

Billy and getting to some other later things later in the show.

Billy, too, had a very difficult mother, a very, very difficult mother.

So there are a ton of us out there from all walks of life, and I'm hoping that the nerve will be ground zero for this ongoing discussion.

Let's get into it. We need to make America healthy again,

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high quality, and free from the chemical junk, so many other brands sneak in. Most quote-unquote

healthy beef sticks at big box stores, those things are loaded with preservatives like citric and

lactic acid, not paleo valley.

They use old school fermentation to keep their sticks fresh.

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And that fermentation also supports gut health, which is something we all need to prioritize.

We deserve better than ultra-processed junk pushed by the same industries making us addicted to their products and making us sick.

The system may be rigged, but we do not have to play along.

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