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 have a lot to get to today. And of course, because we are in the business of doing

Black Talklandia work, we also know that that work is pretty heavy. And so because this show is

dedicated to unpacking the difficult conversations, we also know that that can weigh heavily

on the spirit. And so because of that, from the beginning of this show's existence, we have

used a tool, a ritual, if you will, a segment

that we like to call the moment of gratitude. And this is a segment that essentially allows us

just a few minutes to intentionally tap into something that will give us a sense of joy,

gratitude, and appreciation. And those emotions are important because when you are trying to make

the world a better place for the world's sake, and when you are trying to make your personal world in that broader world better for you as an

individual, you really need to intentionally tap into joy, gratitude, and appreciation because

doing so will allow you to not be trapped by fear, loneliness, and depression.

And so every day on this show, we have this ritual. It is so

simple that it goes a little something like this. In just a minute, you're going to hear

music. And when you hear that music, it's going to be an invitation to you to join the rest of us,

because we will then collectively begin taking the slowest, the deepest, the most long

capacity expanding, joyful heart and vigor, and troubled mind cleansing, and weary soul, uplifting, the most lung capacity expanding, joyful heart invigorate, and troubled mind

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

with a couple million people at once 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, and every day it matters. Shout out to the team. Shout out to you all in the Urban View family. Those of you who are in the Nubian community, I just appreciate our

ability to do this work together. And you may recall that at the beginning of this year, we set out

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