Okay, okay. Here we are again. How are you? My name is Jay Brown. I would like to welcome you to Yoga Talks podcast. This is the first time I am with you in this new year.

It feels like it's been too long.

And it's a new year.

And I would very much like for you to have some amount of happiness in this year.

But, you know, let's not put any unreasonable expectations on

ourselves, you know? Let's just see if we can, as I like to say, keep our wits about us.

Because it's still pretty crazy right now it seems kind of crazy to me i know

people always say oh it's been crazy other times in history too but it seems a little bit crazy to

me right now it's hard to know what's going on.

But the good news, at least in my own personal sphere right now, is that I'm in a really good mood right now.

Sitting here right now talking to you, I feel in a very good mood.

And I'm very happy for that.

Other times, as you know, those of you who've listened to this podcast in the past,

I sit down to do this and I'm not always in a good mood and I tend to be forthright about that.

And sometimes that's a drag.

Sometimes I do that when the episodes are with these really great people,

but I'm in a bad mood and I worry, oh gosh,

why am I like talking about all this crappy stuff before this great talk? But the good news is,

I am in a very nice mood tonight. That's because a couple things happened this week,

random things that I could not have planned that were very pleasurable. One is I got to

record a podcast with a hero of mine, which was just amazingly cool. And I am not going to tell you

it is. I know that's terrible, but I just want to savor it, you know, it just happened a couple

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