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Hello, bienvenito.

Welcome one and all to a brand spanking new episode of the Low life podcast. I'm your flaming hot and spicy, seasonally depressed, white wine drinking, flaming hot chito finger licking, green tea sipping, hot mess of a host, Lorenzo von Roof. And I'm so happy to be here with you today. Oh, there is no place I'd rather be than right here with my low lifers. I hope you're having a beautiful day, a great week so far. But if you're not feeling good right now, if you're in a weird place where you just feel anxious, depressed, you're not in the best headspace right now. There's a lot happening in the world. And so I get if you're just feeling a bit overwhelmed in your own personal life. And so if that's the case for you, don't you worry, boo-boo. Don't you fret. You have come to the right place. We're about to turn that frown upside down. We've got a great show in store for you today. I'm very excited for this episode and I love this guest. Before we get into it,

though, let's talk about mental health. Very important. Nobody asked, but my mental health

score this week, I have to say, it's been better. It has been better. But right now, I'm at a

solid 7.1 out of 10. So I'm just feeling a bit average right now. I will say earlier

this week, it was much lower. So it was like a 5.2. I was feeling overwhelmed and just like complete

shit. I was feeling stressed out because I was in bed. I couldn't work. I was sick with COVID.

Couldn't believe I was even sick with COVID. I didn't

realize COVID was still a thing. I didn't realize that I could get COVID again. I had it like

seven months ago and I was hit pretty hard with it seven months ago. I wasn't feeling good.

I actually missed an episode. I didn't put out an episode the week that I was sick like seven

months ago. Anyway, I wasn't thinking about COVID since that moment. It wasn't on my radar, especially with summer and it's beautiful outside. Again, it just wasn't something I was concerned about. And then Lexi and I recorded that Barbie podcast and she had flown to Nashville and then come back and we recorded that night. I remember that. And she said,

oh, I just feel a little, you know, congested. It's probably sinuses. She just wasn't feeling that great. By the next day, I was hit with COVID. My little contagion Barbie got me with it. And she was sick

too, which sucks for both of us. And so I was down for a solid six days. Four of those days was pretty bad for me.

I had the room spins, the little teeth chattering that felt terrible. And my voice was gone.

Oh my God. It just was bad. And so I took Paxlovid, Paxlovid. I don't know how to pronounce it.

But that helped with some of the symptoms. And then I also, once I was Paxlovid, or Paxlovid, I don't know how to pronounce it. But that helped with some of the symptoms.

And then I also, once I was testing negative, I did infrared sauna.

And that helped a lot.

And infrared sauna, 150 degrees for like 55 minutes.

Who, steamed out.

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