One, two, three.

Just give it patience.

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Yeah.

Hey, gang.

Welcome back.

It's Dr. Z.

Okay, just going to introduce this next podcast because it's something a little different.

I have this conundrum. I started this show. It's a bit of a bait and switch, a little bit of a Trojan horse. I started the whole thing back in 2010, you know, as a physician, talking about medical stuff, and then, you know, COVID hits. You know, I did all the music parodies and all that. And then COVID hits and we start talking about this idea of alt-middle, like being able to see all views, hold all views, looking through, you know, reasoning what makes sense for you, what's going on with what we understand so far.

And that was apparently helpful for a lot of people.

It was helpful for me.

But then I, you know, more and more started wanting to talk about and express this thing that's very hard to talk about and express.

And it's been a journey that I've been on, which is this idea of awakening, awakening to, I guess, our true nature.

It's very hard to talk about.

So in this show, I'm gonna try to talk about it.

And the reason is, there's a big part of my audience

that has no idea what I'm talking about

when I start doing episodes on threads of awakening

or emptiness, the insubstantiality of reality, these kind of things. And I think they get

really kind of put off. And I get it, dude. If I wasn't interested in that, if that wasn't calling to me,

and I just want to hear some medical clown talking about, you know, readmissions, dude, I'm in the wrong place,

right? So what I found is like Facebook, where we have about

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