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So a couple years ago I was in Vietnam, last time I was in Vietnam doing a big event and another big event I can't remember how many people

maybe a thousand or something in the room and I'm up on the stage and you know as usual doing my high energy speaking and you

walking around the stage I like to walk I like to move when I'm talking I like to

have good strong energy and telling a story and I wasn't paying attention. I was just

completely focused on the audience looking out at the audience and wasn't

looking down at my feet or the stage. And so I've told this story

before but share it again. So imagine I'm on the stage so I'm kind of like up on the stage

like this talking and and I just took a step and just

well about like that and I fell off the stage and I boom fell off the stage and I fell off the stage and I, boom, fell off the stage and

and, whoo!

Fell onto my side in the front row,

laying down on my side.

And everybody, like in the whole audience, at the same time, there was kind of a,

this kind of sound, right?

Everybody's like, oh, kind of a shock.

And I was shocked too.

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