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I'm good. Mekonegene. Mekonagie. Mekonagie. Oh, that's actually. Mekana Hay.

Mekana Hay. Rhymes with what would Madonna say.

How are you, man? I'm good, man. Good morning. He's got a new book out, poems and prayers available now. Most folks know you for movies. They know you for speeches. I don't know if they necessarily know you for poetry. What made you want to put your thoughts in the poems and prayers instead of another book?

Yeah.

So, I don't know, last few years. for poetry. What made you want to put your thoughts into poems and prayers instead of another book?

Yeah. So, in the last few years, I started finding myself getting a little bit cynical,

meaning doubt was creeping in on me, on my own faith, belief in myself and, you know, mankind.

I'm looking at the news. I'm looking at leadership. And I'm going like, huh, all right.

Seems a jackpot goes to the winner, no matter if they lie, cheating, steal to get it.

Seems a lot of us are kicking the game when it field going.

Someone's moving the goalpost.

And, you know, are we ready to say, okay, that's how it is? And I think this doubt crept in on me, I started to say, well, maybe that's just how it is. That scared me. And then thankfully, it then pissed me all. I said, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not ready to wave the white flag here and concede and say that's the way things are going.

So since I wasn't finding belief in reality and evidence, I said, you know what, I'm going to go to dreams and ideals, poems, prayers, and say, you know, let's not forget that beginner's mind, McConnor.

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