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Hello, bienvenito.

Welcome one and all to a brand spank a new episode, fresh out the kitchen.

We've been cooking in La Cucina, a delicious, flavorful episode filled with spices, bold flavor, ready for you to sink your teeth into of the low-life podcast.

I'm your flaming hot and spicy, seasonally depressed, white wine drinking, tuck a finger licking, ice coffee sipping,

mushroom microdosing, hot mess of a host, load in sovon.

And I am so happy to be here with you today.

There is no place I'd rather be than right here in this moment with you.

Just here in our cult,

our safe space, this little coven is where I can go to let it all hang out. I can wave my

freak flag. It is truly my safe space in a world of chaos. And I know a lot of people listening

to this right now are going through some shit. I'm hoping you're having a beautiful day

and you're on top of your game right now, but I know a lot of people are feeling like shit.

They aren't feeling like the best versions of themselves right now. They could be feeling

emotional fatigue, exhausted, stressed out, overwhelmed, anxious because of what's going on in

the world right now, which I will say

is a lot. It's a lot going on right now. If you're looking at the news, if you're on social media,

how could you ignore it? There's so much shit going on and it's very overwhelming. We are

currently living in the most politically charged, socially divisive time. And I know there is an epidemic of

loneliness happening around the world. It is a global epidemic of loneliness happening. Even though we have

social media, I feel like social media is one of the most anti-social places that you can be right now,

because I truly can feel so isolated when I'm doom

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