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constellation transcript that 
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It looks like it was recorded on
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One analyst says. 
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why we're not long the stock 
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side, they might take 2 to 3% a 
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launched in the last 12 months 
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months before that. 
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Brew. 
I'm your host, Bill Brewster. 

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I recently gave a talk and 
coming out of it, somebody said 

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your podcast is a good platform.
They find it a little boring. 

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They're they're a little bit 
tired of stock stuff. 

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I get it. 
Sometimes I get bored of it too.

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But they said, you know, the 
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be helpful for people to 
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there's a way to use the 
platform that you have to 

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benefit your listenership and 
encourage people to make some 

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positive changes or whatever. 
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but I can tell you what's going 
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this. 
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It's it's in the morning, 6:00 
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isn't that nice? 
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Could be a little weird. 
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Anyway, so I was given a talk 
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of what's gone on with my family
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father. 
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Now, as I was giving this this 
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to thinking about there's a 
common thread of alcohol being a

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pretty negative influence in my 
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generation. 
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talking about anyone member. 
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And yet, you know, I drank, 
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And I found myself in the middle
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the song Cats in the Cradle, and
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to live by lead by example. 
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of got done with that process 
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been going on in my life until 
December was a lack of attention

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to what I was putting in my 
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having an energy drink. 
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about grabbing a cookie. 
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interaction of some alcohol with
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night of sleep, which is not 
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it's not sleep followed by, you 
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the cookie and whatever and all 
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my body. 
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enjoy drinking quite a bit when 
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everyday drinker. 
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belly a little bit. 
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great, Bob. 
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was thinking the Bob's and I 
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myself, well, it's OK because I 
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My like I, I'm physically in 
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Well, good enough. 
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shape that I kind of like made 
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other way. 
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Drew said on December 30th, 
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said, why don't you do a 30 
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diet with me through January? 
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I mostly did that. 
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that had some sugar in them. 
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Anyone that's listening to this 
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perfect. 
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So tons of chicken and veggies. 
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like a salad with I happen to 
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stuff. 
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sometimes I get real hardcore 
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and cheese and crackers. 
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But basically I've used the last
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So it the interesting thing that
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want to be really careful with 
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cognizant to people that suffer 
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depression. 
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experience was that I did not 
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Maybe day one I kind of like 
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should have a drink, but that 
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Like Tom Holland has a great 
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he talks about how he was waking
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if he could have a drink. 
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which is part of the reason that
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path. 
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18 months when I was 29 to 30 
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Well, I do know why that 
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It was work related, but 
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least shouldn't have been as 
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Maz Cafe, por favor. 
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What I realized is that I had 
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of life. 
I was able to see brightness and

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I was able to see positivity. 
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situation, my brain was 
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time. 
And what I have realized through

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this process is my brain is 
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Well, it is defaulting positive 
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so. 
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15 lbs. 
I'm hitting the golf ball harder

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than I ever have. 
My relationship with my wife is 

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far better because my confidence
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improved. 
Think I have kind of a sexy 

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jawline. 
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that if if you're at a point in 
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where I was, I would look in the
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you're like, so close, but 
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And one sort of benefit of 
living in Florida is I'm able to

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see what happens to the people 
that age that don't take care of

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themselves versus those that do.
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really matters a lot. 
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that are 65 that are still 
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life, able to go fishing, able 
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to do anything that they want. 
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are falling apart, you know, and
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either going one of two ways and
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So I owe a lot to my buddy Drew 
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sure that I would sort of kick 
start my life back into a 

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positive momentum cycle. 
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going to be difficult if you're 
not well, it would have been 

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difficult for me if I was not 
true to myself, to think my way 

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to positivity and to think my 
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really want to be and the 
husband that I really want to be

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without being proud of the stuff
that I was doing when no one was

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looking. 
And the diet part is impossible 

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for me to decouple from the 
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But the combination of the two 
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afraid to approach because it 
felt so big. 

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And I'm shocked at how easy it 
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And I'm not shocked necessarily,
but I am pleasantly surprised at

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how easy it has been to 
continue. 

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I have no desire to reintroduce 
the foods that I was eating into

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my diet and lexicon or whatever.
And, and interestingly, I used 

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to say things like, oh, I can't 
walk past the cookies. 

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Like that just can't happen. 
I'll eat them, right. 

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Well, that's not true at all. 
What is true is when I wasn't 

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being cognizant of what I was 
putting in my body, the result 

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was cravings that reduced the 
discipline and willpower and my 

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ability to eat a cookie. 
And once I eat a cookie, like 

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I'm kind of a cookie monster, 
they're delicious. 

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So I, I guess I'm not, if you're
listening to this and you're 

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like, oh, where is he going with
this? 

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I'm not saying that you need to,
you know, get super, super 

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hardcore with whatever, though I
do think it's easier for the 

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especially for the 1st 30 days. 
I think it's easy if you get 

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really hardcore. 
And the other thing that the 

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other thing that I think is easy
is I think it's easier if you 

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have an accountability buddy. 
So my offer to you, if you're 

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listening to this is for the 
next 28 days, it's the shortest 

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month that you got. 
I am happy to be your 

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accountability buddy. 
Now, if enough people take me up

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on this, I'm probably going to 
have to start like a Discord 

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chat or something like that. 
But you know, my experience has 

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been with anything that I really
want to do, I need to have 

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somebody there that that I feel 
accountable to outside of just 

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me. 
And then once, once the momentum

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starts, I'm, I'm pretty good. 
And I suspect that you would be 

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too. 
So if you are at a period of 

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your life where you feel like 
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table, I'd encourage you to look
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And if you need a support 
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the business brew.com and we can
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or whatever. 
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kind of e-mail or well, we 
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man, how you doing today and 
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And like, I wasn't perfect. 
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once. 
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Oh my God, they were Korean 
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I can taste them right now. 
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right? 
It was a OK, cool, you did that 

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now you know, go just get back 
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And I did and our allocation 
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could have 8 drinks in the 
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We don't care. 
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all in one night. 
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different circumstances. 
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pressure of like if you have a 
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handle it? 
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I don't, I didn't want my kids 
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not pushing myself to get 
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And my physical form was getting
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I'd look at podcasts and I'd be 
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getting a belly on you. 
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impact how hard you're hitting a
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to think about when they're 
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to do something about it without
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What if I do crave booze? 
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Do I have to go into recovery? 
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friends? 
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like I can't? 
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And you know, in in retrospect, 
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better way to say it, but that's
some bitch made shit like you 

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just got to do it and not doing 
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And if you know, it wasn't, I'm 
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want to be fair to myself here, 
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decisions would not have been 
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To the extent that I can help 
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know, clearly not a personal, I 
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them self help guru or anything 
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lives, I am I am very open to 
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And, you know, I'd encourage you
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that it will impact parts of 
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thinking of right now. 
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wife said something like that. 
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started dating again. 
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of depressed for a little while 
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that was a big loss. 
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myself necessarily grieve in the
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Anyway, that's sort of here and 
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for me has started. 
It's not going to stop. 

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I'm not going to sit here and be
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drink again. 
I don't know what's going to 

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happen. 
What I can tell you is I don't 

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have a desire to today. 
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path I'm on. 
And I hope that if you take me 

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up on the offer in 28 days when 
we're talking, you feel the 

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exact same way that I feel today
and you pay it forward and that 

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we collectively make the 
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Because once the bots take over 
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we got. 
And we're all going to need to 

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be strong to fight them. 
Skynet's on the way. 

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I don't know if you all seen 
this mote book thing. 

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I'm sure you have if you're on 
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But the bots are discussing us 
and what what their humans are 

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teaching them. 
Hang on, more coffee. 

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So I don't know, get ready for 
the war. 

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Terminator is going to come. 
I kid sort of it may, it just 

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may, but at least metal will 
have a lot of advertising 

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between now and then. 
All right, I'm a close this one 

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out, but if you want to take me 
up on it, Bill at the business 

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brew.com, holler at your boy. 
OK, bye.