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Thanksgiving, Gratitude & Grit: A Legendary Birthday Episode · D-constructing Topics

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  What's going on everybody and what's going on folks,
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  my name is David and I'm your legendary host of this legendary podcast,
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  the Deconstructed Topic Podcast, but you know what, Deconstructed,
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  we always talk a little bit of everything, motivation, inspiration.
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  A little bit of history, a little bit of whatever it is, whatever covering events,
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  we're touching it, just about 99.9% of the things that's going out there in
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  the world, oh, we're talking about it.
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  So let's go, let's go But today I got a little special, special As I'm recording
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  this It is my birthday, let's go Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to me, right?
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  But anyways, that's fine All great and dandy But at the same time,
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  here in the United States Oh, let's just say, in the U.S.
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  As I'm recording this I'm traveling out of the U.S.
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  Continental So I'm just doing my thing Whatever the case might be But listening
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  to my voice, hopefully, hopefully will bring that energy.
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  When you hear my voice, it's the legendary podcast, Deconstructing Topics.
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  You gotta go out there, subscribe, do your little thing on that network You
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  can hit me on Spotify, Apple, all that good stuff And now as I'm recording this
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  I'm doing a little bit of a special Thanksgiving thing, you know what I mean?
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  I think Thanksgiving is one of those days here in the United States That is
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  cover and it has sometimes a little bit of, you know, controversy behind it
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  But I have if, if, and I'm not gonna say if.
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  But history has shown, the history of humans have shown that there's always a time dependent.
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  I'm not even going to say dependent. A lot of cultures, whether it's in Europe, South America,
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  Native, Indigenous, Christians, Muslims, my understanding is that even in the United States,
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  there is always a time where people do
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  celebrate something that is similar or at
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  least assimilate where you are taking time to
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  think or at least thank the harvest
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  time the things that you have done basically they
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  take time where a lot of people again in
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  different cultures different country there are those who
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  have the means to help those who don't have and sometimes those who don't have
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  there's a lot of circumstances and I and I want to bring this up because again
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  these are things that I've aborted throughout my podcast is that there are times
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  as humans, as we live in this world,
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  we want to be grateful for what we have, but we also want to share and help
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  those brothers and sisters out there and those in between that you want to help.
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  You want to do your thing. You want to do your part.
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  But sadly, sometimes it's the circumstances. You know what I mean?
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  Sometimes we as humans, whether we live in a park, whether it's a recent earthquake,
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  flood, something to that effect, something that's out of our circumstance.
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  That's always been what life is.
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  Now, again, I'm going to emphasize that sometimes in United States,
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  there are things that are out of our circumstances and what happens that we
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  kind of fall back. We get a little bit depressed.
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  Then when it comes to depressed, I always said it leads to procrastination.
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  It's always have been known, especially lately as more people are beginning
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  or at least understanding any more of the brain because that brain,
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  how that works, man, we out there. We just touching the surface.
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  Yes, as we touch in that brain, we still sometimes think like,
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  oh, when we are complacent or sometimes when we procrastinate,
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  that's just us being lazy.
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  No, it's always a form of depression. Sometimes you're always going to remember
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  when you stop doing things in your life, that's going to help you because of
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  whatever circumstance.
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  Always remember, there's always something going on in your life.
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  You're going to notice that.
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  You know, it's very rare that when people stop doing something Just because
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  they have the luxury to not do something Which a lot of people cannot afford
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  That's one of the things where it has more value than money Is that, you know,
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  thing of we always got to do something Whether it's our family, whatever, friends,
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  All that in between, you already know your job, your vocation, whatever you do.
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  But in this episode, we're talking about Thanksgiving, and we're talking about
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  in the sense of giving thanks.
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  Not only that, when you wake up, I always said, be grateful.
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  Always remind yourself.
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  You're going to think of 100 things, and 99 of those 100 is going to be bad.
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  It only takes that one thing for you to say, oof, let me get up. Give thanks.
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  We're making it happen. We're breathing. We're doing a lot of stuff. We're walking.
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  Whatever it is, whatever is going on, there's a lot of people that have circumstances that,
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  unfortunately they won't be able to walk they won't
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  be able to stand out they won't be able to do this do that but i've
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  come across that there are people that are limited whether it's physically mentally
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  or whatever they find a way you know what i'm saying they find a way and everybody's
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  different everybody's different you know i'm not that type of person that if
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  this person can do it you could do it everybody's different because it comes
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  down to that mental thing and it comes down to what you believe.
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  It comes down to that discipline.
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  So you're going to grab things and you're going to say you're going to start
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  by thanking the things that you have.
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  And if you don't have much, just remember that you're still going to wake up
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  as you're listening to this.
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  You got to say thanks to something. And that's yourself.
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  You're alive, well, kicking, ready to do something crazy.
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  When you're alive, you know, wanting to wake up doing something, then we're here.
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  Let's You know, give yourself a round of applause for the fact that as you listen
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  in today's, you say to yourself, hey, I am alive. Let's go.
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  You know what to do with that power now that you are beginning to realize,
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  oh man, I'm here. I'm grateful to be alive.
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  Well, and kick it. What are you going to do?
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  What's in your What's in your pocket You got no change You don't hear no change
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  You don't hear nothing What's in your bank account Okay things are rough I hear
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  you Are you working Not working You got laid off Because the AI Whatever the
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  case might be What are you going to do And what are you going to do To give,
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  And that's one of the things In life Once again as humans As humans And listen
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  I tell people Maybe this is outside of the realm Of deconstructing type podcast
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  but I ain't gonna be naive about things.
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  We'll be part of this goddamn universe.
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  I'm over here recording, looking at the sky. The sky is looking clear.
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  It's looking beautiful in this morning.
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  And within the next 10 seconds, it's a spaceship coming out like,
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  what the hell you came from?
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  Mother, yo, what? I'm just saying, I'm not going to try to be naive here.
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  Stuff could happen beyond our realm of what it is.
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  So in other words, time is ticking. We don't know.
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  Tomorrow's not guaranteed. We don't know what the hell is going to come and gobble this earth.
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  Whether this human is going to destroy this earth or something more powerful
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  that's out there. I ain't going to be naive about that. You know what I'm saying?
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  I'm not going to be naive. You understand? I'm not going to be ignorant about,
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  hey, listen, we don't know.
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  Well, David, you know, is there any proof it doesn't matter?
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  The whole point is that, hey, listen, we can never put our guards down.
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  And that's the whole thing about giving.
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  You know what I'm saying? That's the whole thing about doing something.
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  That's the whole thing of, ah, man, I'm down.
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  But, hey, listen, there's a battle out there for you to do.
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  Gather the troops. Gather everybody at the table. Do something.
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  And do this I'm telling you Us
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  humans gotta rise above whatever it is Because going back to what I'm saying
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  Us as humans we only have each other And at the end of the day There are stuff
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  we still here in this earth We still here in the grounds of Mother Nature When
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  Mother Nature gets angry You already know That's one crazy thing,
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  be. And she doesn't care. She doesn't take names because if we do harm to this
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  beautiful, beautiful world, you know, harm is going to come to the door like, hello.
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  You know what I'm saying? It's a flood. It's an earthquake.
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  It's a lot of things. It's a snowstorm. It's a blizzard.
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  It's a northeaster, southeastern, whatever
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  Easter, that's an Easter that's underwinter. You know what I mean?
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  And that's where we at with that situation.
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  We want to grab the word thanks and we're going to say, give it.
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  Some people are going to be like, oh, you know, I don't celebrate Thanksgiving
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  with the turkey. That's fine.
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  Remember, Turkey, the food is a symbol.
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  Now, I want you to keep in mind, now, here in the United States,
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  just to give you a little brief history,
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  is that even prior to the individuals that came from another continent called
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  Europe, to this western side of this world where it had no name, I believe,
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  different natives that had, you know, Seminole, Cherokees,
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  Pequots, all these, you know what I mean?
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  Especially the Pequots up in the northeast.
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  But the fact that these individuals came in and they noticed how these people
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  during harvest time, which is the fall, which is the autumn,
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  it's what we call September, October, November, December, favorite time of the year, my favorite time.
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  Because it feels that there's a good crops that are growing,
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  the pumpkins, the squashes, all that good stuff.
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  They saw these individuals and I'm like, wait a minute, you guys party more
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  than us. We over here, like, we only party once a week on Sundays,
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  even sometimes, whatever, depending. You know what I mean?
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  Oh, you guys party all the time. Party all the time. Party all the time. Woo!
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  But the fact is that even then, those natives, I know that there are those natives.
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  And I call them natives because they were in this land before.
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  I don't want to call them, sometimes I can call them native Indians.
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  Definitely not going to call them native American for some reason. You know what I mean?
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  Wink, wink. I'm just saying the fact that there were some type of celebration
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  during the harvest where everybody got together,
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  everybody put their spirits down, everybody got there and put their rocks down,
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  everybody put their pistols down and let's freaking eat.
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  Let's get fooled. Let's share the concept of what they call a potluck in the
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  United States, where people at work or even people who throw party,
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  everybody bring a dish, bring something.
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  The cookies, the turkey, whatever the case might be. The bears, the reindeers.
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  What they used to eat back then, it was something a little bit different than
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  the many that we got now, you know.
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  I already said, hey, listen, Thanksgiving got co-opted by, you know.
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  Certain people from certain parts of this world.
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  You know what I mean? But we're not going to get there. Because this podcast,
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  this episode is all about something about giving. Something about giving thanks.
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  Trust me. Even if you don't want to do the celebration of what that symbol is,
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  corporate symbol, you cannot ignore the fact that you cannot take time to do
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  thanks and you could do giving.
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  You know what I'm saying? And the fact that I know that in the Muslim,
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  there's a, one of the holidays, Il Fattah,
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  and it's one of those things that it has the similarity where people kind of
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  get together, they eat, they help, they do sometimes collect clothes for those
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  who are in need in their communities.
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  And I'm just saying I want people to, as they listen to this Don't be like, hey You know, okay,
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  I'm gonna say Well, the white man, you know, did this And I'm like,
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  yo, if you look at the history Of humanity, depending on what culture There's
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  a lot of people that celebrate something.
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  And if you want to go there, what, the Aztecs, you know, little crazy stuff.
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  You already know my people, the Aztecs over there.
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  There's some crazy stuff. But hey, who are us to judge if that's what their thing was?
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  Whatever it is that they're celebrating. You know what I mean?
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  Hey, maybe I would have been celebrating with them like, hey,
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  okay, what are you doing with that body? Okay, okay, all right. I see what you're doing.
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  I hate to sound a little bit morbid But what I want people to understand Is
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  that there's a lot of cultures and traditions That have actually been around
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  this world for a long time And it gets co-opted So let's end up with that Once again,
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  give that little thanks Give that little giving Do something crazy Whatever
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  you want to do Eat, whatever it is A cupcake,
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  a Twinkie stuffed turkey,
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  Hey, I tend to like to eat the lambs in the in the Thanksgiving.
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  That's just me. You know, I love my lamb.
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  Let's go. That's just me.
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  But I always remember I always give thanks and always sometimes sometimes.
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  Sometimes, I like to use this time of harvest to reset myself as well.
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  And I don't, you know, sometimes if you want to do the New Year's thing, you already know.
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  Because sometimes what it is that you're harvesting, not just food,
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  but you're also harvesting your soul, your mind, your body. You know what I mean?
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  This is the time that sometimes, I cannot say, even our tradition,
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  not even our tradition, But the fact that sometimes we are living in a world
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  where we turn to consumers because holiday's coming, Christmas is coming,
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  you know what I'm saying?
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  And we put a lot of pressure on ourselves, and then that's when our bodies start
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  to kind of like, ah, the cooking, the gifting, the do, the boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
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  Loneliness, stress, work, boom, boom, boom, all that good stuff.
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  Take this time. Take this time because, once again, I did say thanks, and I say giving.
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  But make this time for you to give thanks and for you to give that gift of resetting
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  your soul, your body, your heart, your mind.
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  Let's effing go. Well, I hope you enjoyed this little night's podcast.
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