Okay, there it is. We both just hit the button. And here we are.

This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown.oke Talks podcast.

My name is Jay Brown, and if you're new, let me welcome you.

Everyone else, what's up?

I don't even know why I asked that.

Fucking pandemic, that's what's up.

I'm sorry.

Sorry to cuss like that right off the bat, but I guess I'm just having one of those days with the whole thing. One of those off-kilter days. Sometimes I feel very grounded like I'm

really navigating this surreal moment, and I feel like I'm okay and everything's cool, and I have a sense that even though there's all this uncertainty, I've got this clear sense of myself that's going to get me through.

And I still feel that way, but sometimes it eludes me.

And I feel myself swaying with the waves or getting blown with the winds. And I don't know,

today felt a little bit like that. I think I was reading a little bit too much news to be

honest with you. And I must admit, I feel maybe a little bit apprehensive about today's episode.

Not really, but a little bit, because I'm talking about it. I'm talking about the pandemic

and whether or not we should wear masks and and my feelings about the social distancing

and a bunch of things that I haven't spoken so directly about in an episode. Like I keep mentioning

little things here, there in these intros, right? You know, I'm talking about. It's not like I'm

not talking about some, but, you know, I'm kind of in and out in these intros. It's not like I've spent a whole

hour and a half plus talking about these issues. And today we do. And if that wasn't enough,

not only do we talk about the pandemic and all this stuff around that,

we also talk about Black Lives Matter.

He's like, we just got it all in there.

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