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. We got a lot to get to today. and of course, before we get to any of it, we recognize that

we are here in a state called Black Talklandia. And Black Talklandia is the name of this space where we do

our best to embody the best of the Black Talk radio tradition. And that means that we get to have the

difficult conversations about how our world got to be so very messy when it comes to issues of race,

gender, culture,

identity, politics, and the law. Now, these conversations matter because they help us learn a few things, like number one, how to be better people, who are then able to, number two, build better

communities, and then number three, it lets us all shape a better world. For us, that is how talk

empowers and becomes action. And part of that

action is making sure that we have the correct emotional energy before we do the work of Black Talklandia.

Now, that matters because Black Talklandia is hard. It's heavy. Having all these conversations can be

very heavy work. This show is all shot, no chaser. And so in addition to the fact

that our lives be life and we just have to deal with issues, challenges, and the like, we recognize

that it's very important to get ourselves into a key set of emotions. And those are emotions of joy,

gratitude, and appreciation. These emotions matter because when you are rooted in joy,

gratitude and appreciation. You cannot be trapped by fear, loneliness, and depression. And so this

ritual is pretty simple. It is very important, but it is very simple. And it goes a little something

like a little in just a minute. You're going to hear music. That music is 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 and vigor, rate, and troubled mind, cleansing, and weary, soul uplifting, the most amazingly juicy breath that you've ever taken with a couple million folks at once as we kick off our most important segment of every single day. It's time for our moment of gratitude.

Thank you. Every day, folks, we got to do it and every day it matters.

Shout out to the team.

And everybody who's in Urban View and the Nubians, I am just so grateful for all of you.

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