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Hello, friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 86. I'm your

host Dr. Robert Duff a psychologist from Southern California and the author of the

Hardcore Self-Help book series and welcome welcome it's going to be just a regular

Q&A episode today it's been a bit of a crazy day for me actually it's been good and

bad I guess the good thing is that I got to spend some

awesome family time when cut down a Christmas tree and brought it home, went out to

a really nice dinner and just really had a fun time enjoying being with the family.

My kid is just the sweetest boy these days.

He says hi to everybody and bye to everybody and he's just in this age where he's full of wonder all he says is wow

He doesn't have a lot of words yet you know he's coming up on two in February

Like late in February, like late in February, but he says wow all the time. That's like his main word. Wow and car. And he's starting to say a few other things you know he's imitating a lot more and stuff like that

But his main thing is you take him over he goes wow

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