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Eye Opener Society Reborn: From Podcast to Information-Based Collective · Eye Opener Society

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  Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Eye Opener Society.
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  I am Gary Dean. I am your host. And you guys are the audience.
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  And I can't tell you just how much we are appreciative of you guys.
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  We are right smack dab in the middle of December.
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  Another year just flew by. It's been an incredible ride.
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  I've had such great ups as well as some downs.
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  But you know what? I'm ending the year on a very positive note.
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  We're going to be moving in to the new studio on the 22nd of December.
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  And I can't get enough of that because it's allowing me to become more creative.
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  And as I look towards the new year and reflecting on myself as an individual
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  and my gifts and my whatever it is I have as far as intuition and all,
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  like I told everybody I wanted to work on that more,
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  I can move forward so much more freely and I have some big ideas.
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  A big change is the word podcast.
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  I don't like it anymore. I don't really like it anyway.
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  Because podcasting, when it first started, it meant something.
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  People were bringing information to others.
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  Or you were listening to something entertaining. Now, it's basically anybody
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  with a microphone can just jump on and do this.
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  I appreciate that. The problem is it's becoming so watered down.
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  And a lot of people that are starting it is bringing...
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  And a lot of, I don't know, just, they're not bringing enough good information
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  to podcasting, so to speak.
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  I don't know really how to word it, but it's watering everything down.
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  So when you're looking at actual podcasting, and if you're trying to get your
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  own show, it's very difficult to get in there.
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  But you have to just stick with it. And after a while, you start to gather your
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  listeners and you have a fan base, a following.
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  But I want to move away from podcasts because this is not a podcast.
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  This is going to become, from this point forward, basically it's an information-based show.
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  And here's what I mean by that.
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  My life, the way I've been living, and after all of these years,
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  I've questioned so much.
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  I've come up with so many answers i've come up with so many more questions.
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  And i've come up with so many different alternate realities of everything and
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  with that combined with my practice of just simple meditation i've really elevated
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  things and the more that i've become elevated,
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  I've taken a lot of this and retained it as knowledge and wisdom and used it.
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  Basically to help me get through life, but I'm hoping it could help others.
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  And with that, I have a co-host, Lizzie, who's been absolutely fantastic.
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  Now we sat down and we began to record an episode and we were discussing the
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  whole future, but her child, you know, there was something going on with her child.
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  So obviously her child comes first. And so she was unable to record with me for this episode.
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  But that's okay, because like I said, once I'm in the new studio,
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  things are going to be a little bit more stable as far as scheduling and having Lizzie here with me.
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  But Lizzie's been putting together this Discord channel, and I'll put a link down in the synopsis.
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  I welcome everybody to join her Discord.
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  This is just the ground floor that she's developing where as a collective,
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  we can all join in and basically as a community,
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  help each other out by using our own real life experiences, our own gifts,
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  our own intuitions, and help each other.
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  It's not a place where we're pushing any one type of thing or anything like
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  that. There is no gatekeeping or anything.
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  It's just going to be something that Lizzie's going to help everybody with by
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  organizing and working together with each other as individuals.
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  And I'm pretty excited. And I'm part of that, you know.
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  But Lizzie is going to be running this and I'm very, very excited at the way
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  she is trying to plan this. I think it's a fantastic idea.
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  So, Eye Opener Society as a collective is going to be moving forward in that
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  type of format where it's just information.
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  Nothing is really going to change too much.
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  But here's one thing. Depending on the platform that you are listening to us
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  on, you may or may not get any more of our shows.
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  Here's why. And I'll just break it down. A lot of it is nonsense.
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  But I spent a lot of money for Podbean. That's my distribution site. That's my host site.
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  That's where I put all this stuff on and it distributes it everywhere.
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  I've been spending for the last two years the very higher tier,
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  which cost me a lot more, to have audio and video.
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  Now, I know I tried that for a while
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  and what happened was some podcast platforms do not accept the video.
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  And in that case, I had to put up both the video and then I had to also set
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  up a second one for audio.
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  So the ones that do take video, it became very confusing. I think confusing
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  to audience because there's two episodes of each one.
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  It should be much simpler. I was going to use Podbean exclusively.
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  But instead of doing that and alienating some of the audience,
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  because I figured if you really wanted to listen to us, you can move over and
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  just listen to us on Podbean.
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  But I know some people are set in their ways and they like their podcast platform.
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  So I'm just going to start uploading one show. It's going to be the audio video version.
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  And I will let Podbean distribute it.
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  If your platform is not accepting video and it will not convert it just to an
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  audio, then you're not going to hear us.
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  And I hate to do that, but at the same time, I want to move forward as video.
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  Not that it's the most important thing to me, but it's just for future.
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  When this becomes an internet radio show and there's not going to be much video, I just want...
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  You know, my money to go to work for me because I'm not making a dime off of
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  any of this. And that's why it's not a podcast.
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  I'm not doing advertising or anything like that. I tried it for a while and there was no money.
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  I'm not here to make money.
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  I am here to give some information, some thoughts, some humor,
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  some stories to push it out to the people that resonate with those stories,
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  ideas, thoughts, whatever the case may be.
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  So that's what's going to happen for 2026.
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  And I want to push more.
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  Of the higher consciousness and how to live life as a true, you know,
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  spiritual person where we're more connected with each other rather than the
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  world that we're living in front of us.
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  And what I mean by that is, as we go about our days,
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  I want us to be more focused on the people that actually support us,
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  that actually believe in the things we all believe in the spiritual aspects
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  of things the fact that our bodies are wonderful vessels that can heal itself
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  and it's all through conditioning of the mind and it's all through meditation mindfulness.
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  Spirituality and we're going to touch more on some of the other subjects that
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  sometimes come along with this because it's all related when it comes to the
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  paranormal and ghosts and uh,
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  UFOs, cosmic Things like that And that's why as part of the collective Anne
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  Lund's Haunted and Waiting Sunset Child's Out There podcast And Elaine's Arcane Oracle,
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  Are all part of this They will continue to operate as well They will continue to operate on,
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  Their Style I'm not changing any of theirs I just brightened up a couple of
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  their logos So you'll see some new logos for Arcane Oracle as well as for Sunset Child.
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  And as they bring more episodes to me, you'll see that, but they will still be here.
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  But we're focusing more specifically on the things that make us as human beings
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  tick, things that help us get by.
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  Because everything that you've been told is a lie.
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  It really is. And the more you go down these rabbit holes with me,
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  you'll understand, yes, there's a lot of things that have been a big lie, if not all of them.
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  And so how do we,
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  As a collective who walks through life knowing this, where's our community?
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  And that's what I would like this to be is a great community or a society of
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  people that are just sharing thoughts, ideas, and information.
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  I just have some ideas now. I want to get some more guests on the show.
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  And I'm going to have a separate segment, though, for that.
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  I don't want this to be a guest-heavy show where our Monday episodes are,
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  you know, always having guests.
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  This is reserved for myself and Lizzie But if we have guests I want it to be
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  reserved for a certain night.
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  My Wednesday night meditations will continue I'm going to provide more information
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  with that And then I have a couple more ideas To bring in some more voices as
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  well I'm going to be looking for people That want to start a podcast That actually
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  have an idea And they just can't get it out there But I want people that,
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  Really are in tune with Lizzie and I because these people I would like to also
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  have as guest co-hosts as well.
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  And I'm looking to have Lizzie to do her own segment as well,
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  kind of an offshoot of her Discord channel.
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  This way she could bring more information and ideas, and I'm trying to work with her on that as well.
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  So these are ideas I have going forward as a collective view,
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  the audience, we're all going to be involved in this.
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  I'm hoping it's going to be a little bit more lighthearted. It's going to be
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  a little bit more informational.
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  There's going to be some more deeper talk. I'm still going to remain unscripted,
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  but I am going to start doing a little bit of research and putting some things together.
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  This way we can have stuff,
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  that I have stuff to share with you that we can all use and put together as
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  an idea moving forward as far as information.
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  I'm looking forward to working with Carly and Carla from Appalachian Rootworks
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  a little bit more because their shop in Cynthiana, Kentucky,
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  you've heard their episode.
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  They have, I call it the full service metaphysical shop,
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  but I think their podcast, rooted in ruins expands
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  on that and to have them bring some
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  of their ideas their practices and
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  all onto our platform here at eye
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  opener society they are welcomed with open arms and i would love to share some
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  ideas back and forth with them so that's what this episode is about today and
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  again i apologize i didn't really have anything solid and i don't mean to keep
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  boring you with you know all of the podcast background stuff,
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  but moving forward, this is important because you will be hearing things different.
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  So again, I want you to take note on this episode that if you no longer hear
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  us on your platform, you'll have to either follow us on Podbean or try a different platform.
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  Because again, I'm moving forward with just the video versions of this.
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  So again, I thank you guys, the audience, for being patient,
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  for being the audience that you are.
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  And I wish you all the best blessings moving into this holidays and going into this new year.
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  I hope you have the greatest of health, the best of energies.
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  I hope you put forth some wonderful intentions for the new year and let's start
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  rebuilding each other as a collective, as a community, as a society.
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  Let's work on that And we'll start doing it this new year Thank you again for
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  tuning in And I will see you again next Monday.