Hello there, people. How are you? My name is Jay Brown. This is Yoga Talks podcast. Welcome.

I'm recording this on inauguration day. The actual podcast will post a couple days from now,

and I don't know how it'll feel when you're listening to this, but for myself and I know a lot of other people, the day feels a little

bit gloom. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe there's a lot of you listening out there who thought that

the inauguration day was an exciting, good moment for our country, but I can't say that I do. I feel a little bit

scared by some of the reports. I don't know how many of the reports are true. I don't even

trust the media so much these days, but it certainly didn't strike any kind of bringing of the

country together sort of tone. And I hesitated to even try to record this today. It's funny, you know, actually, I recorded two podcasts today.

Normally, I don't do that.

I don't even record two podcasts in the same day.

And, you know, we scheduled weeks ago for them

without really thinking about the fact that it was inauguration day.

So yesterday, one of the people, like, you know, message being and said, oh, hey, you know,

tomorrow's inauguration day, do you still want to do it?

And for a second, I thought, oh, right, what if we're like in like a depressed mood and we don't, maybe we won't have a good

conversation. Maybe that's not good for the podcast. But then in the next breath, I was like,

no way, screw that. I'm not going to let Donald Trump stop me from doing the things that I love.

You know, like I wanted to do things today that were things that I care about and that make me

feel engaged and make me feel like things are possible in the world and that it's not all coming

to an end. So I recorded two great podcasts today. And we didn't talk a lot about politics, maybe a little bit,

just to like get into it because we had to acknowledge the day, but it felt good to carry on

and not feel that some of these things that I don't have control over are going to totally eclipse

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