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. So we got a lot to get to today. and of course, before we get to any of it,

we have a ritual on this show.

Very, very important ritual.

And for those of you who... audience. So we got a lot to get to today. And of course, before we get to any of it, we have a ritual on

this show. Very, very important ritual. And for those of you who started school today, yes, my kids

are all back in all, act like I've got 1511 kids. My two children are back in school. I have a

college freshman and a seventh grader. I'm very tired. I told Amina, I woke up this when I'm doing

this new workout situation because I'm trying to get my life together because this thing has

been happening where I've never had issues with working out. Like I've always been a skinny girl.

It's nothing that I'm doing. There's no nothing that I'm taking.

I've just,

it's just genetics.

My daddy's skinny. He was a thin man. And I just take after his side of, like I'm one of the big cousins on my dad's side of the family. So I mean, like we're, I'm just, I've always been a skinny girl. But I'm having some struggles right now because the skinny ain't skinny in the way it used to.

And I have a scale. been a skinny girl. But I'm having some struggles right now because the skinny ain't skinny in the way

it used to. And I have a scale in the house that I have ignored for years. But, you know, my son was

using it because he was doing weights and whatnot. And so I decided to get on a scale. It's,

you know, beginning of the summer. Why? That bitch, like she, like she's, I hate her. I I absolutely hate her there was a couple of nights where

I woke up weighing more than I did when I went to sleep I was like how did that happened like what

is going on so I have this new workout situation because I was getting very bored with my workouts

I do a lot of yoga, a ton of Pilate,

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