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#21 - The Journey of Letting Go: Storage Units, Gratitude, and What Really Matters
Episode 21 • 17th April 2025 • JuicyMagiK On the Daily • Juicy MagiK
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Haibol, namaste. We’re in a storage container in England, talking real life bhakti, Gauranga on the lips, dust on our hands, and the bittersweet art of letting go. Beautiful bed, perfect couch, all the fancy tech, and still the heart wants shelter, peace, home, freedom. We chant, we laugh, we sort, we give. Storage costs add up, time slips, and stuff decays. What stays bright is gratitude, relationships, simple daily use things, and the quiet joy of serving others. If this meets you right where you are, take it as a little nudge to thank a teacher, call a friend, and pass on something useful today.

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Speaker:

Haibo Namaste

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peace be with you and upon you

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I'm Mark and I'm Maria

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ha ha ha and this is juicy magic on the day

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and we're coming in here live from England

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at a storage facility have you ever

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have you ever gone through a storage facility

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this is exactly when we need a little garonga

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so let's do a little garonga for a moment here

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well I

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for one

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am extremely thankful for Goranga and all my teachers

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instructing all the people I met over the years who

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first of all

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gave me this wonderful mantra and then those who kept

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kept using it and I've been using it for 26 years

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through thick and thin today is one of those thin days

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or maybe it's a thick day

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we're back in England About two years ago

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my lovely wife was not ready to let go of all her stuff

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she was contemplating rent keeping

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renting this place for like £2,000 a month is a lot of

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more money than I used to spend in a year

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it was the most gorgeous place I ever found

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in my whole life on the whole wide world

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unto this point so

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and what were you really looking for

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shelter and peace

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and peace and home and freedom and safety

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which really all of us are looking for

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but we can't find them here in the material realm

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so quite yeah

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what we did was I convinced her to

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to just rent a unit a storage facility

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it's a big container and put all of the stuff in it

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container

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put all of the stuff in it that she couldn't let go of

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and guess what we're doing this week

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it's even hard this is beautiful stuff

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I mean we're talking the nicest bed

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I think the nicest couch I have ever seen or been on

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but no one even

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no one in the neighborhood even wants any of it

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we're trying to give it away right now

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and everyone in this area

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they have more than enough stuff in their house already

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remember the

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we went by the neighbors who really like the couch

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tell them about what you saw

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the sisters were sitting on what

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what did you see in that house

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they had a couch they had it

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they found a couch that looked kind of

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like the couch they wanted to buy from Maria

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two years ago so they don't need it anymore

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and they don't want it or need it anymore

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they don't have any room for it

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not even for their dog beautiful dog

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and he had his own couch

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and also we were inviting people to come over to the

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sort of a state sale

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and what was everyone doing this weekend

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having a birthday party

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everyone was having birthday parties you know

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rebirth days

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yeah so we getting everything out

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and it literally looks quite messy

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it's so much stuff it's just so much stuff

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so mostly I'll just give it away and I'm here helping

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I'm happy to but I'm telling you

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don't leave stuff for other people to clean up

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if you have if you're

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if you're older if you're over 50 yeah

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Mark is in the container

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and I don't know if he can come out

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haha yeah

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we just thought I was I was sweating and I thought

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let's take a moment let's take a break

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let's get real let's get real

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you can't take any of in fact

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people spend £200 a month just to leave

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there's I was spending £200 a month

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this is a great business opportunity

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for anyone of you out there that has land

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you get containers and store it

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let people store them

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but people are paying £200 a month

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just to keep all their stuff in here

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so we also because that's now outside of the budget

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we we live on a really

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really modest budget

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uh materially speaking

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it gives us freedom to have more space and time

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to do the things that

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the activities and spend time with people

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relationships

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and even relationships built up over WhatsApp

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video calls

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we connect with a lot of people every day that we

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we wanna help people

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and I tell you letting go of stuff is really important

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don't leave this stuff for your next

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the next generation

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doesn't have room for any of this stuff either

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yeah and for me

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it's interesting

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because the things that I keep are the nice towels

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yeah we can shower every day

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we can keep the towels cause they fit in the van

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and the nice blankets and the nice soap

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and the soap

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because this is what we really use yeah

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oh and the washing powder because we wash our clothes

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right but everything else

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and next time we buy the washing powder

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we won't get the scented stuff

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we got a lot of really scent

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it's too strong the perfumes are too strong

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but we're you know

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we're using up what we have

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so it's really interesting for me

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it's really interesting because all the fancy

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techy stuff

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it's just in here rotting

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yes

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deteriorating so we'll just give it away

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so we wanted to give you a snapshot of juicy

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magic isn't always just beautiful sunsets and sunrises

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it's also really getting real with stuff

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and some there was someone in our neighborhood

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where we were renting

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and they had a beautiful giant dog

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and this poor dog

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day and night was barking because it was a great Dane

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and it needed

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dogs need affection and socialization

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just they're just a person in there

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and dogs are hardwired for socializing

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so this poor dog was literally going crazy

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tell them about who it was

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you know

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it was the dog of one of the richest people in Greece

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and he has so many houses

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he has so many houses that he wasn't

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even at the house where he had his dog

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you can only sleep in one bed

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and you only have one stomach

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we don't want to go down the road of the Romans

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where you have vomitoriums

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where you can throw up so you can eat more again

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this is pure hedonism or hedonism is what

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I'm not sure how you pronounce it

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but hedonism hedonism just

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just

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it's so bad and unhealthy

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and so is if you need

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if you have a container full of stuff

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you got too much stuff

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so we just wanted to

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wanted to let you know that we're also digging through

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and letting go and cutting and trimming

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and opening up space and time for the best of life

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which is really nice relationships with other people

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who are

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heading in the same direction

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that we're hoping to head

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which is deepening our consciousness

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cleaning our hearts

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the consciousness is pure actually

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and the heart is of the living entity is

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it's full of all the qualities of god

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but it's covered up and this is a great metaphor

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yeah for what we cover it up with

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we fill our lives with this stuff

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to sort of think that we can

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it will replace all the things that we don't have

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which are our connection with god

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our real connection with others

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not in the business sense

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like transactional

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but our actual deep connection with others

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all of life

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today we are walking on

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a path filled with a meadow full of the most beautiful

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wild flowers

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the wind was blowing

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it was in the in the right perspective

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it's heaven on earth really

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you know it's

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and that's um

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to walk hand in hand

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in a loving manner through the field

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greeting old neighbors that had helped Maria

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during a time of real duress

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when she was feeling very much alone and lost and

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we had the time to visit everyone

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you know and just thank them

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Maria you

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you you thank them yeah

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it was really nice to thank everybody

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so today our juicy magic tip of the day is

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if you have anyone in your life

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whether it's a teacher a friend

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someone who helped you out

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gave you good advice

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maybe you didn't like it at that time

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but go and make sure you thank those people

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there's been some people in my life recently

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that I wanted to thank and they've left

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they've got they left their bodies and

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you know it's best to do it today

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pick up the phone

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I don't know if people phone anyone anymore

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but uh

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try to even today knocking on people's doors

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it was so nice that so many people were home right

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yes the weather was cooperative

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but anyway we're

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it's been a long post

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but we wanted to show you little behind the scenes here

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and there'll be some meditation going on tonight

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cause we'll have been digging through all

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this stuff and it's not easy

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it's frustrating to yeah Mike

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thank you so much for helping me through this

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I didn't mean to I got really agitated

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he's just going so quickly through everything and I

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I'm not that fast I'm like slow down slow down

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we only have we only have seven days to yeah

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finish this stuff out yeah

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but we can do it oh yeah

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of course we can but it's just um yeah

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so thank you and thank you for tuning in thanks

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welcome to our container it's like

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I'm Oscar the grouch here in my garbage container

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ha ha so thanks for tuning in

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Haribo Namaste peace be with you yeah

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do you have any other wise words you want to let

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let people know about I'm gonna lie down here

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yeah

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let's do it don't do it

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don't pay for storage

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just to come back years later to have to give it away

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anyhow so you don't need all these things

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and as nice as they are my my thoughts are right now

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whom can I give it to to spark the most joy

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so who who is most joyful

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you can use a bed I mean

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there's lots of people who don't have a bed

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they don't even have a roof over their head yeah

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so I'm literally thinking who who would like this

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and I should have done that two years back

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I feel a little bit stupid that I stalled

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it for two years

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but I wasn't ready

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did something break no

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no it's just something

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I'm just everything is breaking

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yeah that's another good idea

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material and everything is just breaking down

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yeah entropy

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yeah stuff

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the body the material stuff breaks down

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let's back it back to go through the things

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and see you guys see you tomorrow yeah

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thanks Mark bye bye

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