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. Now, we have a lot to get to. And before we get to any of it, we also have a ritual

that we engage in every day on this show. And this is a ritual that is designed to allow us to

proactively tap into a series of emotions that feel really, really good. Those emotions are joy,

gratitude, and appreciation. Now, the reason we do this is because, frankly, life be life.

And it's difficult out here.

Like, it's hard out here for a human.

And in addition to that, we as a community are facing some pretty tough challenges right now.

And so having the ability to be able to intentionally tap into joy, that is a superpower. And so this ritual

is pretty simple. It is so simple. In fact, it goes a little something like this. In just a minute,

you're going to hear music. And when you hear that music, it is going to be an invitation to you

to join the rest of us because we will collectively begin taking

the slowest, the deepest, most lung capacity expanding, joyful heart invigorating, troubled mind,

cleansing, and weary soul uplifting, the most amazingly juicy breath that you've ever taken

with a couple of million people at once as we kick off our most important segment of every single

day. It is time for our moment of gratitude.

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

Shout out to the team.

Shout out to all of you in the Urban View family.

Shout out to the Nubians, the podcast community, the YouTube community.

We are bringing it all together.

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