Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay? Thank you so much.

Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. Lots to get to today. And of course, before we get to any of it, you all know we have a ritual on this show called A Moment of Gratitude.

This ritual is very important because the topics that we cover and the conversations that we have here in Black Talklandia are heavy. And as a result of that, we want to make sure that we are remembering that we have the capacity to not just learn about the news and learn about

what's happening, but we have the capacity to do something about it.

We have the capacity to change our world, to be the change agents that we need to see.

And the moment of gratitude is a moment where we intentionally curate a sense of joy,

gratitude and appreciation because we know that when we are rooted in joy, gratitude, and appreciation, we can't also be trapped by fear, loneliness, and depression. So this ritual called a moment of gratitude is pretty simple. It is so simple, in fact, it goes a little something like this. Hit it! In just a minute, you're going to hear music. That music's going to be an invitation to you to join the rest of us because we will collectively begin taking the slowest, the deepest, the most

lung capacity, expanding, joyful heart, invigorate, and troubled mind, cleansing, and weary,

so uplifting the most amazingly juicy breath. As we kick off our most important segment of every

single day, it is time for our moment of gratitude Every day, folks, every day we got to do it.

Every day it matters.

Shout out to the team.

Shout out to the Urban View listening audience and the Nubians. It's just a great space to be. I was texting somebody this morning. I just wanted to be somebody related to Urban View, who we all know and love. And I was like, I just want you to know. I want you to flourish. and what I also was going to text, but I couldn't because the show music was starting.

It's like, I'm just really grateful for this space.

I'm just going to text, but I couldn't because the show music

was starting. It's like, I'm just really grateful for this space. I'm just, I'm very, very grateful

for this space. I cannot imagine having to navigate everything that we talk about without having

this urban view environment to do so. So I am ultimately grateful and thankful for you. This morning,

I want to talk a little bit about setting the scene,

right? We are familiar with this concept that we are the central figures in our own play,

right? And if you are not the central figure in your own play, you're just an extra in somebody

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