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There's so many horrible things that had happened in the world in the last week that

I could rant about at the top of the show, the massacre in the offices of Charlie Hebdo in

Paris last week, which was horrifying and distressing. The massacre in Nigeria by Boko Har Paris last week, which was horrifying and distressing the massacre in Nigeria by

Boko Haram last week, which news is just getting out about horrifying and depressing.

The Republican takeover of both houses of the U.S. Congress, Mitch McConnell as Senate

majority leader, horrifying and depressing.

But I don't really want to talk about any of those things right

now. I kind of need a pass on horrifying and depressing, particularly after last week's

opening was horrifying and depressing the news about Lila Aylcorn's suicide. So I just want to

set the horrifying and depressing and big sort of world news or national

news stories aside and focus on something personal and something in my life, in my orbit,

that you may be going through right now, actually, that you may be experiencing this.

It's January. I'm a regular gym goer.

I go all the time.

It is my antidepressant.

I'm not a gym rat.

I am not all ripped and shredded.

But I go to the gym and I exercise because if I don't get exercise, I get depressed.

And I have relatives who take antidepressants and I take ellipticals and weights. I lift weights, and I'm not sad. If I don't get exercise, I get really depressed. I go to the gym. And there are new people at the gym in January. There are the New Year's resolvers. We see you. You pour into the gym. The regular times at which we could go to the gym and be assured of,

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