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Day 13,930 - June Bloom.mp3
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Hey gang, Kevin here, Life 22 and it is June 1st, 2026.
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We are on time.
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We're on time.
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We're not late this month.
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As my late father would say, if no one were late, none of us would be here.
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So with that said, I want to know how your mental health may went.
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How was the month of May for you?
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How was your mental health?
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Did you try something new?
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Did you do a new exercise to kind of give you peace of mind?
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Did you work on your mental health?
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How did you work on your mental health?
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Please let us know in the comments.
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You can share them privately through messages, through our e-mail.
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I'm trying to think.
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There's a ton of other ways to get in touch with us.
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We promote you to be open and, you know, like be honest and tell us what your thoughts are.
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So with that said, today,
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I just keep overusing that phrase.
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But today is June 1st and this is 8 October, November, December, January, February, March, June.
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Yes, so we haven't completed June, right?
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So 8 months, 8 solid months sobriety here.
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So
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Not a drop of alcohol.
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I'm doing good.
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I think this is the longest I've been prior to like the age of like, I don't know, like 9.
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But that said, there it is again, right?
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See, Kevin, you're just overdoing, you're overdoing phrases.
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Anyways, there's a mental health thing for me to work on.
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But our mental health may get us into a good,
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theme for this month, right?
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And we are calling this month's theme June Bloom, okay?
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And we want, just like all the flowers are blooming and looking beautiful and soaking up the sun, we want you to do well and soak up the sun.
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And we want you to build some solid foundation, spread your roots,
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grow strong, right?
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So we're really like kicking off this June with just getting you better, getting me better, getting all of us better, right?
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So mental health May is essentially folding into June bloom.
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And
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So if you've been working on your mental health for the month of May, then you should be better prepared to start like, kind of expanding on things that you worked on during May.
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And you should also be able to be cognizant of some of the things that you do that might be a little piccadillos to other people, people around you, things that you can work on as an individual.
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You can pick something small or you can drastically renovate the house that is you, right?
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So
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And sometimes it also has to do with dealing with external factors, right?
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A lot of mental health is from stimuli in our environment, right?
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So, like maybe you've got, an issue with your spouse you have to deal with.
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Maybe you have like a really terrible boss.
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Like maybe you have, a bad coworker or a neighbor that's a jerk or whatever that you have to just
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The only way that you can change the world is if you start in here, right?
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You start in you and then move outwards.
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You have to make corrections with you first, because it's the only thing you really have the ultimate control over.
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You can control others, but it's...
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it's a lot harder.
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So it's easier to start by controlling yourself, which is a lot harder than most people think.
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They're like, oh, it's just me.
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I'll just tell myself to not drink for eight months, right?
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Like that's, it's difficult.
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Like it's not just easy.
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Not everybody has the willpower of Kevin.
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Like, and even me, I'm just like, oh, the weather's so nice.
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I want to grab a cigar and go smoke a good beer, drink a cigar.
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And what do you need with a beer, drink a cigar?
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You need a beer.
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And like, so, you know,
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You try a near beer, like, you know what I mean?
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You do an NA, right?
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And you got to look through them and, to be really, holistic about it, you got to pick one that has like 0% alcohol.
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everything has some degree of, particulates, right?
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But for a noticeable degree, right, you've got to be cognizant, right?
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It's one of those things, but it's always easier to start with you than it is to just like control others, unless you're like, Doris Roberts, the Marie Barones of the world, right?
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So you can just, it's really easy just to guilt the **** out of people, but so.
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I want you to work on your mental health.
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I want you to work and expand it.
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I want you to do June Bloom.
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And this month, we're actually starting something new where we're doing weekly challenges for it.
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So the first week I'm challenging everybody to work on habits and hydration.
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So you need to remind yourself.
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So going back to some of our February stuff, where we actually work on our personal fitness, we work on making sure that our body
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is healthy, not just our mind, right?
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So but in order to do that, especially during the month of June and to bloom properly, we need good hydration methods, right?
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So like not just the fact that you're drinking more water, but do you have good habits that incorporate drinking water on a regular basis?
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Maybe you want to also study
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the quality of the water that you're consuming.
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Are you just letting whatever comes out of the tap go down your gullet, let it go down into your gullet?
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Are you just guzzling it down, right?
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Like that's, the government adds a lot of fluoride to stuff.
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I don't know if you're like me and you just don't trust the government adding stuff that like Hitler thought was cool to add to water.
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Like, oh, it just sedates the people.
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That's nothing wrong with it.
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You know, keep an eye on your water.
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Drink good water.
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Maybe you want to cut out microplastics, which a lot of that is consumed through water because we're putting them in plastic water bottles.
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So a lot of those things, but also making sure that you are well hydrated.
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Well hydrated is a great thing to be.
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And then working on those habits.
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Working on those habits, getting up early, you know, putting that cigarette down, like if I don't hold my lighter, I won't smoke that cigarette.
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Boom, building good, healthy habits.
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And
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That's what I challenge you this month, this week to do.
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So if you would let us know in the comments below what habits you're taking on and which ones, and maybe at the end of the week you tell us which ones, you know, hey, maybe I tried, you tell me at the end of the week what you tried and did it work?
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Were you successful in it?
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Do you want to push that an additional week?
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But we'll be ready next week for another challenge.
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So
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I also don't want you to let try not to pick habits that you're changing in your June bloom to work on you, right?
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Like you are trying to make yourself better, but that does not also mean to like allow other people to just let you satiate the problem, right?
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Like if you have.
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a really ****** neighbor or a terrible boss.
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Like don't just like give in to them.
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Don't kowtow to them just because you're like, well, I can solve the problem and all the anxiety if I just let them do what they will.
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No, like all you're doing is feeding the dragon at that point.
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You are feeding the problem that you do not want to address.
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And part of your mental health is to be able to make your way through it and say, hey, no, I have a problem here.
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I have a dragon.
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I must slay that dragon, that problem.
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I must solve it.
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In order to solve it, I have to address it head on.
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You slay the dragon, you win the gold.
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The gold is the thing you're trying to achieve.
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It is your goal, right?
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Everyone wants gold.
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The dragon has the gold.
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Maybe he doesn't possess the gold, but he is protecting it.
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Sure, **** behind that dragon is gold.
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And you're going to go do it.
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You're going to go out there and you're not going to let people walk all over you.
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You're not going to be a little pushover.
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Maybe you are the one that's pushing people around.
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Like maybe you need to
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And there's an example of maybe you satiating other people and be like, what, maybe I'm just not going to be a **** *** to this person today.
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But don't let people bully you.
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Don't let people push you around.
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You need to draw strength from good, healthy, hydrated roots with good habits.
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Taking in certain amounts of sunshine, not taking in too much sunshine, not drinking too much water, but making sure that you're hydrated.
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Most people are always dehydrated, so we should do a lot of that.
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Man, I miss this.
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I miss one-on-one talking to you guys.
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And we're going to be doing more of it.
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We're going to be doing more of it.
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We're not going to let people bully us into not doing the podcast.
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We're not going to, I don't know.
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I took a week off from doing the podcast because I just, you know, I had other things going on.
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And then when I
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when I didn't do it, I wasn't able to air grievances and things like that.
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And then, people push you around.
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People like they bully you.
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And then you're like, maybe I just won't do the podcast because so-and-so will take it this way or that way.
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And you know what?
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Not doing that.
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Not doing that either.
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Because the other thing that comes with that is letting, you know, I don't know.
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It's one of those things.
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It just, it bothers you.
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It irks you.
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It gets you flustered.
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Especially when people are like accusing you of things behind the scenes, like they tell something to somebody and they tell you, and these are different stressors that are going to affect you as well.
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I mean, if you're, if you have like, people that you're friends with or people that you work with or whatever, and they come to you and say, hey, so-and-so is saying this about you, and it's like, this is why this is happening, and this is why, and letting other people's rumors
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kind of spread around and you just at the end of the day, you just have to shrug and be like, what?
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I don't know what that person's talking about.
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If you have a concern of what I'm doing or what I'm thinking or what I'm going, what's going on in my world, you're going to just look at Kevin's YouTube channel because that's, this is the place where I put all my stuff.
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Like I don't have other outlets.
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This is it.
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So like, that's, hopefully that goes to address a bunch of naysayers in the crowd.
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But regardless,
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We hope to have some guests on the show.
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We got a good lineup coming up.
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We've got some local businesses that started.
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We're going to get our weekly small business ads going again to promote local businesses as much as government actors from the feds to the state to the local governments are trying to cripple them and crush them.
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We are small businesses.
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and small businesses will survive.
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We are the salt of the earth people.
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We are the salt of the earth.
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So, and this, and having a strong identity, right, this is going to allow you to help better root yourself, living, as a friend of mine says, more righteously.
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And yeah, so
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A lot of exciting stuff coming on.
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So we'll, with that guys, we're going to let you go and I'll see you maybe tomorrow.
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Maybe on life 22.