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Hello, bienvenito.

Welcome one and all to a brand spanking new episode.

Fresh out the kitchen, we've been cooking in La Cucina a delicious flavorful fiesta

platter, ready for you to sink your teeth into of the low-life podcast.

I'm your flaming hot and spicy, seasonally depressed, white wine drinking,

tucky finger licking, ice coffee sipping, mushroom microdosing, hot mess of a host.

Lurin, so bon.

And I am so happy to be here with you today.

No place I'd rather be than right here in this moment with you.

I hope you're having a beautiful day and a great week so far and

you're feeling good. There are so much heavy shit happening in the world right now. Oh, it's depressing

to watch the news. Politically, our world has never been more divided. I think everybody is walking

around right now feeling a little bit more tense, feeling anxious and overstimulated by what's going on in the

world, and rightfully so. I have to microdose the news. I have to. Otherwise, I'm going to go into a

downward spiral. I can't watch too much news. Otherwise, I'm just so depressed, but I also don't

want to bury my head in the sand. I want to know what's happening in our world, but again, in micro doses, small doses, I'll only allow myself to watch the news a couple days a week.

There are plenty of podcasts I enjoy listening to that cover a lot of what's happening in the world,

politics-wise, and so I can stay informed that way as well. But again, I know so many people,

myself included at times,

are just going through it, regardless of what's happening in the world outside of our control.

I'm talking about just home base. People are really struggling with their mental health right now.

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