Look, we break it down, down, down, down, down.

She break it down, down, down, down, down, down.

She got to message for the people, a brilliant mind and a clean soul.

She's standing up to the evil in making sure that we all grow strong enough

To break these change we're in

They keep us in this painful condition

She gave us truth and division

That's why we listen

She break it down, down, down, down, down

Down, down

She break it down, down, down, down. She break it down, down, down, down, down, down.

So we got a lot to get to today.

And before we get to any of it, however, we also have a ritual that we use on this show

because typically Monday through Thursday and frankly most Fridays, although I try very hard to ease up on Friday, but y'all know I be all gas, no breaks. This show is all shot, no chase it. But we try on Fridays to ease up a little bit. But typically the conversations we have on this show are very heavy. Like I was looking at some of the titles of the YouTube videos that we've put up recently,

and it's a heavy. You're not coming to this show for giggles, although we do try to giggle

or a lot, and I do try to make it as joyful. But this show is heavy. You just look at the content

that we're putting out, whether it's the interviews, whether it's the lives. And so because of that, we know that, frankly, we can't just get started jumping into

the news because that's depressing. So we have learned that we really do have to take just a few

minutes to ensure that we are proactively curating the set of emotions that are going to be most advantageous to us.

And those emotions are emotions of joy, gratitude, and appreciation because one, they feel

amazing. It feels so amazing to have joy. It feels so amazing to have gratitude. It feels so

amazing to have appreciation. I was speaking with one of the bookstore owners, Janine Cook,

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