I wanted to talk to the originator of the emotional rating system. You can definitely hear there, but...

Yeah, now it is I just...

No, I know. I don't know if you realize this, but I'm recording a podcast.

Oh, I'm so sorry.

Okay. Three two one go.

Hi and welcome back. I'm so glad that you came back I feel like this is going to be a good

episode but I also feel like I'm probably going to feel that way about each episode so

take it with a grain of salt but this is about an emotional rating system that I created with my mom a long long time ago and I

Realize that I refer to it a lot and so I wanted you to have that context but it's something that I've used for a long time to track my moods and I've heard that it's been helpful for other people so hopefully this will be

enlightening and useful and entertaining. So here we go. Oh my God, how did I almost forget to explain my emotional rating system that isn't

mine it belongs to my mother? There you go mom. You got credit. You've got mail. You didn't have any mail. I just went nice. Okay. Anyways word association. There'll be a lot of that. The emotional rating system,

listen, we're gonna, we'll probably

have to print this up and distribute it

to the entire United States and the world at large

because that's obviously going to be in the

audience for this podcast because I reference it a lot. If you don't actually

know the intricate details of the system you could become confused and let me explain

why and then also let me apologize for creating a system that could be confusing

but it's mine and that's what I did.

So the emotional rating system,

and I'll obviously have to fact check with my mom

because I cannot remember when she started this,

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