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What's going on ? Welcome to the

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channel . My name is Jon Cerrone

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. We're doing a little different episode

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today . This is more like a vlog actually

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. Instead of doing a feel-free episode

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where we talk predominantly about

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wellness and other inspirational

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stories and stuff , we're really just going

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to be talking about me , updates on

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my life , hobbies , that I enjoy

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, things of that nature . So if you do like

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this type of content , let us know in

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the comments section , give

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us a like and subscribe and all that

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good stuff . But without further ado

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, let's get into a little bit of it . I'm actually

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a little excited about this because

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it's different than what we normally do and

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, honestly , I just get to talk about some of the

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things that interest me . And you might be asking well

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, what's going to be first on the list ? And

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, to be honest , the first thing that we're going to be talking about

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, we're going to hit them with something good

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. We're just going to talk about video games . I'm

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a big gamer ? I'd like to think I

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am , actually Maybe not in the terms

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that other people of the community would

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label me as I'm sorry , I do not

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play Fortnite . I

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don't play League of Legends anymore . I'm not big on

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shooters or big console

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games . Now that I think about it Honestly , I'm a

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pretty niche type of gamer

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. Favorite system is Nintendo . Two

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favorite series of all time got to be Pokemon

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and Fire Emblem . Now I

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do play some open world RPGs

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, like Tears of the Kingdom on the Switch was really

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cool . Also , when they ported the Witcher onto

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the Switch , that was also really cool . So I do

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enjoy the open-world RPGs . I'm

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really big on turn-based strategy though

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, something to involve my critical

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thinking , planning , problem

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solving , stuff like that . I liked playing

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Civ and other RTSs on computer

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, like Age of Empires and stuff , but right now

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we're just going to be talking about some of the games

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that I'm interested in . Right now I am playing

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an old copy of Pokemon

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White , so that's Gen 5 . I

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only played Gen 1 through 4 growing

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up . I did play Legends Arceus

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. That was great , and I also played the

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Gen 4 remakes , so this is the

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first time I'm playing Gen 5 . I'm kind of going in blind

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. I'm enjoying it , really enjoying it . I

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actually got a grip made

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for the 2DS , so

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my hands don't hurt because I'm old as

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hell . I guess you know my hands cramp up

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, so I'm enjoying that . For that

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, though , I was replaying Pokemon

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Sapphire , which is Gen 3 , probably

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one of my . It's either Gen 2 or Gen 3 , but

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that happens to be my favorite games . But

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I was replaying Pokemon Sapphire on my

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Analog Pocket , which is a high

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definition Game Boy , super

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bougie , probably one of my

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favorite investments I've made in the last few

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years , and I also got a grip made

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for that by Power Up Gaming

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. You know what ? I'll drop some links to Analog

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and Power Up Gaming for that , because

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it's really been one of the best handheld

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experiences that I've had . So

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I was replaying Pokemon Sapphire in my

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Analog Pocket . I do have a Fire

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Emblem game that I'm not all the way through Fire Emblem

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Engage , which is on the Switch . Paper

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Mario , the Thousand Year Door has been reported

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on to the Switch , so I'm

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probably going to get that . Right now I'm just , you know

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, playing old Pokemon games gives me something to

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think , think about , wind

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down with . Video games have always

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been a really big part of my I'd

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like to say wellness , you know

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it does . I can't say

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that I haven't been addicted to video games

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, or it's been a bad habit because it has

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, which is actually why I'm nearing three

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years without playing League of Legends

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. Played League of Legends for like a decade

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. It's a great game . Unfortunately

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, it is too addictive and

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too toxic also , so

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I had to cut that video game out of my life

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, unfortunately . But video games are

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really special to

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me because they do give me

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something to think about . I look forward to problem

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solving , love , a good story . So

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that was the first thing I wanted to talk about was me

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playing video games . Number two on

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the list . Another fun topic we're

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going to be talking about anime , also

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a really big part of my wellness

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. Also , we don't have a YouTube

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channel for it yet , but my sister

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and I did start a podcast

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called Just Anime . It is out

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on Spotify , google and Apple

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where we talk about just

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anime . So check out some of those episodes

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. We do have another episode that's coming out in a few weeks

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where we're going to be talking about some of the newer

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shows that are airing right now . Anime has

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been a really big part of my

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sobriety , my recovery

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, my wellness , giving

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me inspiration to be in the shape

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that I'm in , to overcome

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adversity and also to just enjoy

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really good stories and animation

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and all that stuff . So anime is a really

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important part of who I am today

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. It also gives me something

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to look forward to . So right now

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the new season of Demon Slayer

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is airing . Definitely love Demon

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Slayer . It's beautiful animation . Ufotable

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is one of the best animation studios

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that I've seen , like with the Fate series

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, fate Zero and Fate Stay Night , so those

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were good . My Hero Academia is

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airing right now Another one of my favorite

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series , so that's good , that's good

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. There's a new series out called

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Kaiju no 8 , which is awesome

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, and then another one that's airing is

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Windbreaker , which is also

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dope . And I've been watching one called

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Megalobox , which is like a boxing

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anime . So I'm going to try and give you bullet

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points on some of the ones that I'm watching . First

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of all , kaiju no 8 , the main character is not

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a 15-year-old kid with

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superpowers , he's like

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32 , and they make jokes about how

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old he is . I

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really do enjoy watching animes where the main character is not some kid

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. I love watching them when they're

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older , like Cowboy Bebop

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or Samurai Champloo are two

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of them . I did start that one called Monster

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. I do have to finish that one , but with Kaiju

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no 8 , they make jokes about his age

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. It's inspiring because the guy's kind of like

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in his 30s and he's given up

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on his dreams and then the

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show is about him getting

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a chance in order to now

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chase those dreams again . But the

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show itself is great . The animation is awesome

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. The story is pretty good right

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now . The characters are funny . I'm really

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enjoying it . Windbreaker is also

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a good one . If you were a fan of

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Tokyo Revengers , this is another concept

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like that where it's like high school

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gangs in Tokyo , not really

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biker gangs like Tokyo

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Revengers , but just kind of like gangs

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. You know ruffians or you know they call them

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degenerates . So

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it's really cool . The one qualm I had with Tokyo

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Revengers is the animation isn't great

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. Windbreaker the animation

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is really awesome . The fights

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are cool . The music is really cool

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too . Highly

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recommend giving Windbreaker a shot , and with Demon Slayer and my

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Hero , you kind of already know what you're going to get . Those

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are two of the heavyweights in the anime

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community right now . They're definitely

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in their final arcs of their

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respective shows , so it's

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getting really interesting to see how things

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are coming together after being a fan

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for the last few years . Megalobox

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is cool . It's kind of dystopian future

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a little bit , where it's a boxing anime where

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the people have like kind of robotic

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arms and stuff attached

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to them and they box with it . It's

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kind of cool . It's actually made me want

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to get into boxing . So the

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sports animes are pretty interesting . The

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other sports anime I've watched would be Haku

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, so that one's cool too . See , I've been watching

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, obviously , obviously a lot of anime . I'm

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enjoying that . There's also that time I got

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reincarnated as a slime that's airing right now

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that I got to get caught up on too . I

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watch a lot of my anime on Crunchyroll

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or Hulu and

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I keep up to date with anything that's airing with

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my anime list . Yeah

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, video games and anime are a really big part

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of who I am and I

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do enjoy talking about them . So

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if you guys want me to talk about more of that

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, I've

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been gaming and watching anime for over 20 years now , I think . So I always like talking about

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that stuff . We're going to talk a little bit about wellness , or I should say

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, yeah , we're going to talk about wellness , talk about talk

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about my wellness . So I've been . I'm a big

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basketball player . I love playing basketball . I've been

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hurt for , you know

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, like two months I've been rolling my ankle left and right

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. That's what I , you know , and I'm old and

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playing with people at LA Fitness who don't

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totally understand how

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to play organized basketball . I

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tend to get more hurt playing around younger

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kids , so I've been definitely

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more hesitant on the games

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that I play . Just you know , kids get under me when

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I'm jumping and then I roll my ankle and here

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we are . So I have been playing

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. The last week I've been playing with

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people and it's been great . Normally

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when I got hurt I kind of went

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scorched earth and stopped working out completely

9:14

. This time was different . I stayed in really good

9:17

shape , had been going to the gym regularly

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at least five times a week , hitting different muscle groups

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, doing heavy , probably especially in adaptability

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. I've hit weeks and days

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where I deal with depression , anxiety

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and apathy , but I've

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managed to power through that , which

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has been awesome . That'd

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be . Another topic I'm going to talk about is going to be

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the mental health landscape , but

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right now , for the physical wellness

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, I've been very proud of myself

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for how I've come around . I mean

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, even last week I didn't really do

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anything . I had a pretty off week last week

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, but this week I got back to it and

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I've been running again . I don't

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like running . I really don't . It

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is a great form

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of exercise . It's also nice

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because it gives you a goal and something

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to push for and strive for . So I get a little

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bit of an adrenaline boost there . So that's been

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really great . Because with basketball

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, same thing very

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goal-orientated , like getting

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better at shooting or dribbling or playing

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against people . There's score

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involved with running . There's or

10:37

playing against people . There's score involved with running , there's PRs . My goal is to get

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back to being able to run two miles in 14 minutes straight through . I'm

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not there yet , that's okay . So

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I have enjoyed that . Heavy cardio

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days so I'll bike like 10

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miles on a stationary bike , I'll row

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for 20 minutes and then I'll walk on an incline

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for 10 minutes and then I'll

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do 15 minutes in the sauna

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. So I do one of those days

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at least once a week . Otherwise

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I'm isolating muscle groups

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, like I'll just do a leg day

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, maybe some plyometric exercises

11:10

, chest and shoulders and triceps

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on one day and then bicep

11:15

and back on another day . Pretty standard

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stuff . I don't really

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lift for high weight

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, low rep . I do lower

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weight and higher reps just to

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build endurance and tone . Yeah

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, so that's kind of what I've been doing for working out

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. It's been working out . I've

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been watching my diet , not slamming

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as much ice cream , because

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that's a guilty pleasure of mine

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. If you are one

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of the fans of the podcast and you know I am a recovering

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addict . I just

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reached my five-year sobriety

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mark last week and

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I tend to get addicted to things

11:55

fairly easily

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and to like I use

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ice cream and video games and anime

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as other

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types of habits that I used to use

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drugs and alcohol for right . So

12:10

, working out , staying on top

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of my , my exercise

12:15

, my nutrition goals and creative

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goals , work , finance , like

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doing everything that

12:22

a healthy individual should have . You

12:24

also need to have some sort

12:26

of release or vice . It doesn't even have to be

12:28

super healthy for

12:30

you , it just needs to be something that you

12:32

find enjoyment with

12:35

, that doesn't necessarily have

12:37

the potential to turn into something terrible

12:39

. Right , like I wouldn't like reason with myself

12:41

right now and be like well , you can drink then because

12:45

it's out of the question , I'll , I'm

12:47

going to be sober the rest of my life , so when

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I do , you know I had ice cream

12:51

Friday and Sunday , so

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you know I had to run like four miles

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one day . Try and burn that off . You know you

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try and use different things to make

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up for what you do , right ? Yeah , don't

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get in a habit of going

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scorched earth with a bunch of bad habits

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and decisions and then keep

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that going for even longer

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than a week , like it's okay to have a bad week

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. I have bad weeks all the time . Then

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I get after it the next week . What I used

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to do is I would have a bad week and I would let

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that snowball for a few weeks

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at a time . So now I'm able

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to catch myself from doing that and

13:27

it takes practice . All in all , my physical

13:30

wellness goals have been great

13:32

and yeah , I just wanted to

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say that the next thing we're going to talk about is going

13:36

to be the mental health side of things , and

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mental health has always been a big

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topic on my podcast . I've

13:45

also I guess you could say I'm a

13:47

mental health advocate . I don't really like

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doing things

13:51

that would consider myself an

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advocate on social media and stuff , because I don't

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like social media . I don't even really

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like recording things about myself

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, but I will say that

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I have been going to see a therapist

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regularly . I need check-ins

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like that . It's just who I am

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. My brain moves too fast

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sometimes At the age of 30

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, almost 31 , there have been some OCD

14:17

and ADHD tendencies that have flared

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up over the years and

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you know I just need help dealing with it and

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that's I'm all right being vulnerable

14:26

, saying that you know mental health is extremely

14:28

important . We need check-ins

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, check-ups , and

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you know if you need help , you need help

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. Nothing to fucking freak out about . You

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know , being vulnerable , asking for help has

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been a huge help for me . Another thing that's

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really important for my mental health is

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going on walks , and people

14:47

may be like , all right , okay , that's you know mental health is going on walks and people may be like , okay

14:49

, that's you know mental health

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is . I keep saying

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that like I'm supposed to define it , but

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I view mental health as just like your ability

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to deal

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with stress and

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also to have I'm

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not even gonna say a positive perspective

15:09

, but to be in sync

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with your perspective

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about yourself and the world , to be

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able to handle stress and

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to be grateful . I'm

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not a fucking doctor . You can't say that . I'm literally just saying what I think

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it is or what my goal with mental health is , which is why I go see a therapist

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, which is why I go on walks , which is

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why I read , which

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is why I set limits for my screen time

15:38

, which is why I try

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to surround myself with positive people

15:43

too . These are all things that you can work towards

15:45

in order to have a good foundation for mental

15:47

health , and having good physical routines

15:50

is integral to my mental health

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as well . Yeah , understanding that has

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been a huge help for me in the recent

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months , and you know it's

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important for me to even

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talk to myself like this and

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to continue writing . So the

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other thing that I wanted to talk about were other

16:07

habits outside of , I should say

16:09

, other habits and hobbies outside

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of the video games

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, the anime , the playing basketball

16:16

and working out . Going on walks is pretty

16:18

big for me . I'm on and off with reading

16:20

or listening to audio books

16:23

. Sometimes I'll go a few months where

16:25

I'm always reading and then I go a few

16:27

months where I'm not reading . I finished 1984

16:29

by George Orwell , which is a really good book

16:31

. Right now I'm getting through Beyond Good

16:33

and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche and

16:36

listening to some lectures about that

16:38

philosophy

16:48

that I've studied and it inspires me in a lot of my writing . Other

16:51

things that I've been doing I've been freestyling a lot . When I do go on

16:53

walks , I listen to lo-fi usually and I'm

16:55

usually freestyling

16:57

rapping . I started writing poetry

16:59

again . So I do that in the morning

17:01

or at night . Writing is a big

17:03

part of who I am and

17:06

my mental health and also what

17:08

I create because I am

17:10

an author . You can check out my book that I dropped

17:12

two years ago . I'm actually going to a holistic

17:14

wellness festival this weekend and I

17:16

will be selling my book as well and my podcast

17:19

, so that's exciting too . But

17:21

, yeah , writing is a big part of who I am Able

17:23

to journal , just talk

17:25

to myself , get my thoughts out and also be creative

17:28

has been awesome . Been spinning

17:30

poi and gloving

17:32

a little bit too . I went to a electronic

17:35

show a few weeks ago and

17:37

inspired me to , you know , take my my

17:39

lights out again . For those that don't know

17:41

poise , like the people who spin

17:43

fire except their lights , it's

17:47

a type of flow art . It's the same with gloving

17:49

. So , like tutting finger , tutting , dancing

17:51

, those forms of dance have been really important

17:54

to who I am and

17:56

for a long time . When I was getting

17:58

sober , I stopped

18:00

doing those things and as

18:02

I've come into my recovery , I've begun

18:04

to do these things again and enjoy them . So

18:06

we've touched on pretty

18:09

much all the hobbies that I take

18:11

part in . I even dropped a little

18:13

current event that I'm going to be working

18:15

at a holistic wellness festival

18:18

. Some people from my high school started a non-for-profit

18:20

and they're running this festival

18:23

and I reconnected with one of the guys from high

18:25

school and looking

18:27

forward to just doing more work with

18:30

what they're doing , because I'm excited for

18:32

it . It seems like a really great organization

18:34

. Give them a follow . Check

18:36

out their website . It's a Greater Good Foundation

18:38

. So , yeah , there is a holistic wellness

18:41

festival at Proviso East

18:43

this weekend . So , yeah , looking forward

18:45

to that A little nervous , but should be okay

18:48

. So , if you did like this content , let

18:50

me know in the comment section , because

18:52

it does help me get ideas on what

18:54

you guys want to hear . I haven't been recording

18:57

a lot of podcast episodes

18:59

recently , and that's okay

19:01

. I do have a few that are going to be released over

19:03

the next few weeks , so keep an eye

19:05

out for that . But again , if you like this

19:07

content , if you like a specific theme

19:10

that I was talking about and you want me to

19:12

do a longer episode about that , let

19:15

me know too . Give me a like and

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subscribe . But , yeah , thanks for sticking

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around . Hope you guys enjoyed it . But

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have a good rest of your day , stay

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up , feel free .