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Drunk Punk Rock DJ · Eye Opener Society

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  Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the EyeOpener Society.
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  I want to thank everybody for joining us here. This has been a fantastic week
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  for me, and we've got so many episodes that's been sitting in the library that's going to be coming out.
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  We've got some really good shows. We had some really good shows.
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  The directions are always changing, and it's really exciting to us,
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  and we're really happy to have you part of this.
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  The other thing I wanted to do real quick in case nobody ever noticed just how
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  great my voice sounds on here,
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  they Witt microphones ever since I bought these things almost a year ago,
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  everything has been so much better sounding and I can't stand how good I sound
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  in my headphones and that's all thanks to LeWitt microphones so LeWitt,
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  if you're listening thank you so very much so the giggling companion that I
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  have is Jennifer Miller.
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  She's with me and she's such fun to be around.
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  I just want to put her on here because she doesn't know it yet,
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  but she's going to be running this show right now because I'm going to have
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  her run a show at some point.
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  So Jennifer, thank you. And tell me why or what this topic is and who inspired you?
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  Oh, well, obviously you. Of course. The post that you put up about just.
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  I don't even know how to explain the depression the sadness like people are
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  just down It really stuck with
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  me today um, because I had to I read it right and then I reread it and,
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  I was really like I was kind of like wow Yeah.
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  A lot of people like have been so down and you've been seeing it on social media,
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  I mean even people you talk to you can just It's not the same like the connections
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  aren't the same the way you feel Um.
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  It's just, you know, post 2020, you know, 20, things have really changed.
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  I mean, I think for a lot of people's emotional health, um, or mental health, as you would say, um,
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  but it really stuck with me and I was looking at that and then all of a sudden
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  a friend popped up and, um, we got into talking about some heavy stuff.
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  Stuff and um you know you know
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  regret like one of the biggest things um
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  and it was you know done with being a drug addict and
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  having regrets of things that you had done and um
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  it turned into such a personal conversation i
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  mean because of that post like it
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  just kept playing in my mind and um
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  it's just been kind of an odd day for it
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  it's funny here's one this is not
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  i don't think this is the exact one because i put two because again on
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  facebook i have um my facebook uh
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  business page for eye opener society and then we have the group page
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  this is one on the regular page not the group um
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  it says i have seen so much pain lately not just my own but from so many people
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  both close to me as well as strangers perhaps maybe with the world falling apart
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  it will leave us with a blank Canvas to start again the right way this time.
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  I like that one. The one with pain pushes to heal. I used that when I was talking to my friend.
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  I mean, not to get too into the conversation, but they are not an active drug addict.
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  They actually have some other friends that still are, and they've been really worried about that.
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  And I'm just like, you know, sometimes tough love. You've got to distance yourself.
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  And I'm like, you know, you have to feel pain in order to heal,
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  like to know that you need to heal.
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  Um, you know things around you are going to trigger you and it's going to force
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  you to look at something and be like, you know I'm not over this.
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  I need to work on it um And it just that conversation really hit hard Just because
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  I saw that post and then they were talking about their stuff and it was just like,
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  you know pain You know the pain of regret that's something for me Especially
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  with a lot of stuff and I know a lot of people have that.
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  And it's hard to move on from certain parts of, you know, your life,
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  especially if you regret it, because it's something that just pops up.
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  So, yeah, living with pain, like, you know, a lot of people do because,
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  you know, regret's a pretty big thing.
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  Right. And I think because of everything that I've gone through recent times
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  and what everybody else is going through as well, as a society,
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  we're all dealing with this stuff.
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  And it's affecting, like I said, it's now come from total strangers and I'm
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  listening and hearing things and it's, it is, it's, it's very interesting.
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  It's powerful. It's powerful to think that that many people are going through
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  so much stuff right now, but I'm trying to relate it.
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  Are we going through some sort of spiritual awakening where everything's going
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  to change and get better? Or is this just the gloom that's going to remain? We don't know.
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  However, we as people need to change and decide which way it's going to go.
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  That's a really dark way. yeah so
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  you put a whole other spin on it right yeah no it's fine but
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  you see i could put a whole another spin on it and make you
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  think completely different about i mean i'm really
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  my i'm hoping for the best i hope that
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  it's something that it's you know pushes us to like
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  heal and pushes everyone to to
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  be better um but you
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  know i just i also there's a realist in me
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  there that's just like is it really going to get
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  better or are we going to progressively get worse
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  into this funk or is it just like seasonal affect are
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  we all just experiencing as a collective like
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  as a group of people cabin fever to
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  the extreme you know what i mean yeah you had also mentioned too you know with
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  2020 that was a year that was a dumpster fire and are we still feeling those
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  effects Or are we going through cycles now where every few years we're going to keep reliving a 2020?
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  And that's the question too that I was asking myself. Is it something in the
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  air? Is it something the government's doing? Is it just us as people?
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  Where is it coming from? What's causing it? What's creating the problems right now?
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  Those are the questions that need to be asked. And those are the decisions we
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  need to make too to decide, are we going to break out of this and change things?
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  Or can we i mean i think we can but i think it is a collective of everything
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  you know like social media news coming at you i mean even local news i've noticed
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  has had a very big uptick in just.
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  Negative terrible things i mean like around my area it just seems like you know
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  the the local news is just popping out like pedophiles like like crazy i mean and i,
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  it's it's kind of shocking because you know they've always
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  been there but we didn't have like the
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  um social media and the the network of
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  news so fast now or well
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  then to come out but now we do so you hear about
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  it continuously and it's like is it is
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  this you know just funk for everybody because
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  of you know the collective stuff i was saying like social
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  media the news you know friends and family um
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  obsess about certain things um you know
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  within the news politics money stuff like like
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  you said like are we going to get through this like i'm hoping like
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  i'm hoping for the best because it's intense
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  it's intense to be around people that are just feeling it
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  and it's not that you don't want to be there for them but you're
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  also sometimes like in the hole or the rut or
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  the the death spiral as you want to call it you
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  know um we are and you
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  know sometimes right there you could surround yourself too with positive people
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  that usually helps but where do you find these positive people because there's
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  a lot of positive people that suddenly turn very negative so i've seen a lot
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  of positive people turn negative yeah.
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  So we are falling into
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  this death spiral it really is we're
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  feeding off of the negative energy of one another
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  there's a lot of it and there is and you know you come in contact with someone
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  you know and they right away they start breaking down on you and then it triggers
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  you it's like oh crap I'm going through the same shit myself and it brings out even more.
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  So now you have two people and it intensifies everything twice as much now.
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  And it's just a continuous broken record now. And it keeps happening and happening.
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  We don't know where the door is to get out.
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  Right well also like you have to think like there's a
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  lot of people that don't even really know this about themselves like
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  you know not empaths but they just absorb energy
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  very easily i mean there's empaths that
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  i think do feel others emotions but like like you
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  said like they join into the negative conversation and then you've
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  been in that for like what 15 minutes and it just keeps
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  you know kind of circling and circling um
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  so like you absorb that you go to somebody else
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  and you're talking they're going to be getting that too so like you
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  know it spreads right that negative you know
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  energy and i know when i talk to
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  people you know i can say hey
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  yeah i've been there you know i've done that like i've you know
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  i feel your pain like i know what you're going through but still
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  like when you leave even if you feel like you're on a good term you
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  still have a little bit of that stuff with you that they
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  were talking about so you know it we are feeding
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  off of everybody like we are like that's like
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  the best way to say it feeding off yeah it's
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  crazy and then you gotta i'm probably about to bring the worst advice out but
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  again don't we're just podcasters i'm not a doctor i'm about to give you the
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  worst advice i could give anybody but i just want to want you to take it philosophically.
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  You remember our last episode when we were talking, like, hey,
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  let's treat this life as a cruel joke.
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  Laugh at it. Make yourself a joke. That's one way to do it. Now, here's my bad advice.
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  I was, just before coming, you know, on the air with you, I found this thing.
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  I wish I had the damn link.
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  I'd give him a shout-out. But it was on Facebook, and it was just a live show
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  that was previously recorded, I think, last night.
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  And it was a radio show, and they were doing punk rock.
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  I enjoy punk rock. I enjoy punk rock.
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  Yeah. There's zero worry about all the consistency of music.
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  You're just doing the music for the music.
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  And the DJ that was on there was completely fucking drunk and blasted out of his mind.
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  He was having the best time of his life.
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  And then mixing that with the punk rock music. And then all the comments that
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  were rolling in where everybody else was obviously having a great time. At some point.
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  Go out there and drink go out there and you know again worst advice i could
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  give you go out and live life go out and live like do something extremely powerful that's gonna like hey.
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  All right take away the drinking way please don't take my
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  advice at least turn up the volume you know
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  listen to the music you like listen to a different type of
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  music get yourself out of a rock that
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  you are in by doing something different this
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  was different to me because yeah i listen i listen to
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  punk rock you know but i don't always listen to punk rock
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  this is the first time i'm listening to like a radio station with a drunk dj on
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  facebook where anything is going it was different
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  and the music hit a lot harder than
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  it would if i would have just turned on the radio and heard a song now i
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  like that and drunk dj i remember going like
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  when i was in college like that was kind of the thing
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  like you know i wouldn't say drunk djs but like
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  you know upbeat djs and you know
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  partying and you know just getting out there
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  and doing something different that you hadn't been doing the whole week
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  you know studying doing all that good stuff going out you
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  look you had a good time because you weren't doing it consistently and
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  the drinking part yeah it could be good advice or bad advice gary i mean i think
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  people do what they need to do what they gotta do i mean to feel better and
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  surprisingly like lately i haven't
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  been feeling really bad about stuff but i've also been kind of like,
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  hibernating in the woods you know where i live um not really um i said like just not really um.
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  Socializing as much right but like
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  i said i've noticed a big like it's just it's crazy
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  like how like it's not going anywhere like
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  i've noticed it's not changing things with people
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  and they're and you know things that are going on with
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  them like i mean they do change obviously but
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  not for the better i've noticed just
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  you know what i mean it's just kind of
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  crazy how just things have gone
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  to this place so let
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  me hit you with this one then oh okay take it take take that because here's
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  another thing that i myself personally experienced okay the other day was extremely
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  windy and cold like i mean the winds were freaking howling 25 to 40 mile an
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  hour gusts And when I'm and where I am,
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  the wind, the way it's hitting, because we're basically, it's a flat land.
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  Actually, where I live used to be an airport at one time and they rebuilt it
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  up to, you know, shop stores and homes.
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  So it's flat land. A lot of it's open. So the wind sounds 10 times worse.
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  Under meditation, I'm sitting there, I'm listening to this wind.
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  And then I'm putting myself into like some deserted Antarctic kind of place
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  where the, everything is so extreme and so cold and so bitter and so brutal.
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  There's a silence in that. And there's peace in that.
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  Even though it's wicked, it's cold, it's depressive.
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  It becomes, depending on how you look, once you find the peace in it,
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  you look at things differently.
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  That no matter how bad things really are, it's actually peaceful.
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  So there's a whole nother aspect.
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  Hey, do you thrive in like real like dramatic situations?
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  Cause that just kind of sounds like someone that would thrive in like such dramatic
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  situations. Like that's where you shine kind of.
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  I mean, in life. Yeah. I mean, most of my work and all, I was in a lot of high
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  and intense situations and I do it.
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  I used to thrive. I'm just trying to get away from it because I'm trying to retire.
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  Here so but yeah it's but you
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  take that and if you use that as advice which
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  is probably better than going out and drinking and getting drunk which
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  sometimes it's not that bad no it's good to go out and get drunk and do fun
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  things there and there just as long as it doesn't you know affect your life
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  in a negative way people don't like and i'll be honest with you i've stopped
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  drinking um i was never like an alcoholic i like i enjoy alcohol i could get.
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  Really drunk but i never had like that craving
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  addiction to it like i put it away for years and i'll
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  go back to it when i've only stayed away from it like it's been a year now since
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  i really did any real drinking drinking and i'm just doing it more for health
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  and it's just because i'm just trying to cleanse out my body but and i'm sitting
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  here thinking maybe that's what i need is a good drink, you know,
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  and not in an alcoholic kind of sense, but just as a way to intensify my life again.
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  And, you know, obviously again, damn, I just think this is such bad advice,
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  but I don't think it needs to be alcohol.
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  It could be anything. Like I said, listen to a different type of music,
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  go out to the Antarctic deal, you know.
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  Experience things that you would not experience or what you think
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  would be horrendous and enjoy them and
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  i think that's the message i'm trying to convey probably the
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  worst way possible no it's not it's not i don't
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  think it's bad i mean i i don't think it's
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  bad like i've had like a big change in
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  how i see things and how i feel and i
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  honestly don't know how that happened but i'd
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  like to think that i started doing some things different And
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  it changed everything for me And um
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  Like if I knew how my like how I
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  Figured it out or how I like worked it out So where I'm not Feeling like I was
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  a while ago I would give I would be giving you guys the recipe But I don't have
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  Any good advice I mean the drinking Is not bad advice though I mean trying something different Um,
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  Heck I mean Um.
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  Go skiing, try chest, you know. You can even do it with a beer.
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  I mean, maybe not the skiing part.
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  Maybe not. That might be a little wild.
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  Skiing with a beer. Yeah. Might make me feel better.
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  But, yeah, like, I've just... But it's just, like, isn't it crazy how fast...
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  I mean, because, like, I remember, like, December.
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  I wasn't feeling or seeing as much negativity as I'm seeing now.
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  Right? just how fast that's kind of all just like snowballed like that's what's
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  crazy that's where i'm just kind of like wow like you know even from just you know november december.
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  Till a little bit of january and then all of a sudden it just
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  snowballed like into a ball
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  of negative fuckery basically it really
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  quickly and i was i think
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  on our last show too i was trying to explain some of the intensity
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  that i wanted on the show and there's
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  um it's a bruce springsteen song i think
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  it is uh you were yeah um
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  i want to change here's the list i want to change my hair my clothes my face
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  but i ain't getting nowhere i'm just playing tired bored with myself and i think
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  that's under these circumstances that really sums everything up you do something
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  more than just, you know,
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  changing the way you think you want to change everything. You want to make everything better.
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  But again, there's something there. There's something in the air, whatever it is.
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  It's just holding real deep oppressive thought on us or, you know,
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  it's raining down on us and it's keeping us from being that person wants to go out there and.
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  Change themselves, not because they're depressed, but because they
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  just want to be different they want to experience something different
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  yeah do something different be better i
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  can understand that yeah like yeah yes i
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  agree with that i do i don't know if i have anything really else to say on that
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  but yeah terrible advice though with the drinking oh god yeah i know and yeah
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  i'm looking at the clock yeah 20 minutes i think we should bail out of this
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  one before people start getting angry but or they go out drinking whichever
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  and but again it's you see.
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  Sometimes the worst advice can be the best advice
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  because you could replace the alcohol with anything it is you want right
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  you know like i said the the
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  real vision on that was just the fact that i was
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  watching somebody who was obviously drunk and i'm watching this dude and like
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  he's a freaking like an 80s punk rocker and it was just so cool to sit and watch
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  somebody with zero fucks given in the moment and it makes me think like I'm
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  trying to put myself in here this guy's probably penniless and he doesn't give a fuck,
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  And that's what hit me so hard. I said, why am I caring about anything anymore?
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  Why should we be so serious and so dramatic about certain events?
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  I'm looking at this dude who's obviously drinking and having the best time of his life, and I'm not.
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  And that's what makes me think. Not worrying.
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  Yeah, I like that. You know, don't worry about the things that you can't control.
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  Yeah, okay. Yeah, that's true.
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  And I have not been doing that lately and I feel like it's been weird.
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  Like remember I messaged you and i'm like I should be upset about something
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  And you know about the the five unfollowers,
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  but i'm just not and i'm feeling like I felt weird because I was so used to
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  being worried and upset about Maybe just the smallest little things especially
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  like that like I would get upset like that would You know hurt me It would make
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  me just feel like you know,
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  there's something wrong with me I know that might sound crazy because it's just
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  five followers, but it's just like What was it about me?
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  But now i'm just like before like that's why I messaged because I didn't have
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  those thoughts I was just not worrying about it.
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  I wasn't upset and I was just like I feel like something's weird.
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  Like what is wrong with me? There's nothing wrong with me I'm just doing something different.
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  Like I'm not feeling the same way about it.
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  But I had felt that for so long, it was so weird to experience.
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  So I'm pretty sure you were thinking when you saw that text message,
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  this is crazy, this is weird, what?
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  No, because at that time I was feeling just like you were. And it wasn't until
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  just before coming on the show when I seen that punk rocker dude,
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  and it gave me that newer perspective.
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  And I think that's what driven me into thinking a different way again.
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  So hopefully everybody else can, because I know everybody else is feeling on
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  a certain level that we need to start thinking extreme and we need to start
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  building, you know, digging our way out instead of digging our way in.
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  So on that note, I want everybody to do me a favor.
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  Since Jennifer here lost five followers, let's give her 500 followers.
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  I want you to go on Facebook and go to Tea Leaf Readings in the Valley and give her a follow.
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  See all the beautiful things that she makes because she's a very talented artist
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  and it all comes right from the heart.
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  And I really like the stuff that she makes. So go on there, see what she has,
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  see what she has to offer, or at least just follow her just to follow her so
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  she's not worried about the five followers she lost.
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  And don't forget... But I'm not. That's the funny part. I know.
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  So also go on our website.
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  EyeOpenerSociety.podbean.com Check out all of our shows Don't forget we also
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  have Ann Lund's Haunted and Waiting And I know she has one coming up for us
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  soon Sunset Child's Out There Podcast And Elaine's Arcane Oracle Podcast There's
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  something for everybody out there So tune in,
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  listen We're on all platforms including YouTube So it doesn't matter where you
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  listen You will find us Eye Opener Society. That's the name you got to search.
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  And until the next episode, I wish everybody all the best.
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  Go out there and be a punk rocker and have some fun.