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Hello and welcome back to BigMood LittleMood. I am your host, Daniel Levery, and with me in the

studio this week is Danielle Moody, the host of the podcast woke AF where she explores the many

facets of what it means to be quote unquote in modern life. Danielle, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm so looking forward to this. We have a real like series of

doozies today. I'm very, very excited. Yeah, they're all my favorite. They're all just, they will

take us places. How are you? How's your week going? How's your day going? You know, my week is

going well. I feel like I am swimming in quick sand. I think it's because the earth is spinning

faster. I don't know if you got that memo a couple of months ago. And yeah, we're just racing

towards the end of the year because it's fall or like just as a general. Yeah, climate change.

Apparently we have, you know, altered our atmosphere. No big deal. And that makes it spin faster.

Yeah, correct. Well, yeah, when you're feeling out of control, just know that you're not crazy.

I just want you to know that I googled that as soon as you said it. And the first thing that

showed up was a link from NPR. And it said some scientists say it's climate change.

Others say maybe it's because of earthquakes. And I really like that broad range of possible

explanations. Yeah, but what they didn't say is that it was false. So there. The second one says,

apparently Earth has been speeding up for a few years now. Nobody is saying that it's, it's false.

So now I simply don't know what to believe. Correct. I can tell you that on my end, I realized

today that I am not a figure of mystery and intrigue in my neighborhood as I sort of hoped I

might have been because one of my neighbors mentioned that his nickname for me is pajama Sam

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