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Welcome to an all new episode of the Low Life Podcast.

I'm the host of this little shit show, Low Von Roomf,

and I'm so happy to be here with you today.

But it's a hard one. I posted on Instagram some sad news that unfortunately

I lost little duke last week. My pug of 14 years, he died unexpectedly and

oh, this one sucks. It's painful. I hate it. I didn't even want to post about it because it made

it feel so final. And I'm still in shock. I can't believe it. I can't believe it happened. And as I

sit here right now, I'm still in disbelief because just last week I was with little dukey

recording an episode of the podcast. I mean, the lowlifers are very familiar with who little dukey is.

He's just the sweetest pug and he's been by my side snort and sneezing and wheezing.

There's my little companion since episode one of the lowlife podcast. I could not have done

this podcast without him. He's just been the perfect little companion and he's made his little

guest appearances on the podcast and he is just everything. I love him so much.

And as I sit here in my living room recording this podcast and I look where his bed was,

where he would lay and look up at me while I recorded.

This is a pain I have not felt before and it just sucks. And I've experienced loss before

of loved ones and of course that's not easy at all. I was talking to the queen about the podcast

and I said, you know, queen, I don't think I could do this podcast. I'm going to skip a couple weeks

because I'm just feeling so sad and I'm not my best version of myself right now. And I just feel

low, especially right now. No pun intended. I do feel like a literal lowlife. I'm running on fumes,

you know, and I feel like I'm on empty and I need to just take some time, do some healing and come

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