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It's just turning into like my confessional, isn't it like those things of those

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shows where like and then the person
talks off camera to somebody and comments on

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their life. I'm James Juniors,
is trifty plus, not live, and

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I'm coming to you again here on
another Monday. I'm doing better this money

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than I was last money. Thank
everybody for your kind words and supports through

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that tough time remembrance and being without
the rest of the week continued that a

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little bit without my stepdad. It
was his birthday and he wasn't here.

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First time he's not here, So
it's there were stages of grief that was

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very emotional last week, as you
saw on the show here. Thank you

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for allowing me to do that and
share that with you. But we're doing

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better this week and we got through
it. Unless you do just get through

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it, you experience the emotions,
you get through it. This weekend was

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good. I had some some fun
time, some worktime. I'm finally feeling

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like I'm really getting organized in my
professional life and personal life. Today.

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I have a new book out,
The Manthiana Streets. It's really good.

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Check it out. It's a mystery
I've been working on music. I have

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some new music coming out for some
of my artists in the next couple of

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months, and we're gonna my own
albums and stuff, and we're gonna be

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very creative. I have some more
audio dramas about to drop and those are

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previously recorded, you know, from
last year. And but my creative Jesus

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I can feel are flowing in terms
of mind to write something new, but

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I decide I still want to finish
all the old stuff, get it up

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and out, and hopefully the strikes
will be over and we can go from

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there. But it's just it's just
these strikes are just and it strikes are

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talking about of course on the w
GA, the writers and the sagapp of

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the actors. It's just regret this
point, heading towards one hundred and twenty

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eights, you know, heading towards
several weeks. I mean, for the

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actors, this is ridiculous and shutting
down on Hollywood basically, it's just ridiculous.

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But I'm a Satiday with them.
But I'm working on the jobs and

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things, and I just want to
give a special special thank you to the

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folks who I had my first fundraising
telethon a little mini one on Friday.

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I need I needed a goal of
a couple hundred dollars to do some projects,

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and we hit it. We like
literally hit it by a few dollars

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over. So I thank you everybody
contributed. I gave way two for one

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zoom things, so people have some
free zooms coming up in there in their

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system, so thank you for that. And some just gave to give,

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so thank you. Those projects have
been funded, and so there are music

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projects and so you will know more
as they come out. I'll let you

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know exactly who you are and what
you what you funded towards. So thank

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you. It costs money to produce
albums and put stuff out and all that

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stuff. Everything costs monthing everything,
and so thank you so much. I

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wanted to keep I wanted to stay
on track for a couple of things and

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real too. And also it helps
my artists feel excited. It helps me

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feel like I'm doing something that's that's
that's meaningful, and I'm a going to

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stay on my schedule because I've been
sacrificing a lot to help everybody else.

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And you know, you have to
learn you can, you can ask for

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help, You ask for all time. And for me, I'm asking for

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help and I'm actually giving you something
in return. So it's like I'm not

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just asking for the take take take, I'm actually giving you all kinds of

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content in exchange for what I mean
I have. So I mean I'm doing

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some wady for things. It's not
even funny, right, And I want

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to thank again. Even on here
are my Patreon ears. I saw one

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increased her membership, so thank you
very much. You mean getting more stuff.

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I put stuff on there every day. I have so much stuff my

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patreon patreon dot com slash James,
you should join. We have a dollar

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tier. There's one four dollars a
month. If you don't want to spend

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all the money or you're not sure
about subscriptions. A dollar a month,

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and I have so much for a
dollar a month, like you get so

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much stuff. Then I have five
dollars, ten, fifteen, ten dollars

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or twenty dollars. So but the
ones that were my twenty and ten dollars,

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I love you guys so much,
thank you. But the ones that

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are one in five, I love
you g because you know I said one

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hundred, one hundred, one dollars
one hundred dollars and five dollars. I

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mean it all, it all adds
up, it all adds up, and

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I just appreciate you guys so much. I can't believe we're at the end

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of almost the end of August.
I don't even know where everybody went.

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And I'm working on September and figuring
out what's having. In September, I

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asked some decisions to make for October
and November. December. I got some

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offers to do some work which I
said yes, and things in January,

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February, March of next year.
Already very excited. My weight lost journey

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has been wonderful, I said,
I've lost over last It's been a month

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now, a month, a month
of As of today, it's been a

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month. I started this journey.
I lost seven pounds. But that's not

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even the parts because I plateau last
weeken I got a little down like plateau.

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That's not even who cares. The
thing is, my clothes are fitting

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differently. I feel like my faces
is starting to go down, like it's

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gonna get a little smaller again.
I had to face my face next.

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I was getting big. I'm looking
at older pictures, going okay, it's

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going to happen. But shirts like
this I couldn't fit. They're starting to

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fit now, they're fitting me differently. I'm having more energy. I'm sleeping

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very well. I mean I have
nothing. I mean things like that.

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It's very interesting this whole journey.
Working on a treadmill. I'm walking longer.

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I'm trying to get this weight off
me because I think the weight is

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the part that hurts my makes my
lower back hurt, my hips hurt,

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and things like that. So and
I'm taking more organizing jobs, working more

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in the in the garden. So
I'm doing active active active, active active.

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And I've been really watching what I
eat. I really have. I've

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been watching what I eat almost applied
to my detriment. I'm trying to I

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let lucay once in a while,
but I've been really just I'm very focused

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on this. I want to lose
one hundred pounds by next year, so

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when meeting next birthday, not by
December January, but like by next mark,

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next May. And I think,
you know, I can do it.

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I think I can do it.
I don't think it's a problem with

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that. I can do it.
To me focusing on that, and so

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it's been fun. It's been it's
been eye opening for me to do this

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because I'm really focused. I have
my food journal. We're saying, I'm

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almost it's the first month and someone's
actually I'm ending it. I didn't plan

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this. It's actually ending on today
wherever I have for dinner next that's the

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last entry. I can't believe it. It's I can't believe it. So

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very roy can. I have a
new book. Also, I also I'm

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gonna show you guys something also awesome. It's my new book. I used

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to my next flu journal, good
things kind of those who hustle. I

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love it, and so I'm using
this next. So I'm very excited to

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do that. Yes, let's be
good and I will kind of im find

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makes all kind of all kinds of
stuff I am finding that goes in there.

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So I was like, I'm getting
some stuff separated that goes in there.

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I gonna do work where I'm talking
to guys. Okay, let me,

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but I want to show you something
too. So I think it's really

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cool thinking of anniversaries and things.
So sixteen years ago, I was at

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a dinner party and I was actually
I was at dinner party. I want

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to take these out. I was
at dinner party and I uh, and

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my life was changed. Just go
just coming to La going to this dinner

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party, had a good time and
went to Magic Castle, did a couple

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of things and so yeah, I
go, oh yeah, I'm looking stuff.

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I look at my Magic Castle things. Anyway, and I had the

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best time. Now as funny as
well. These couples is not together anymore.

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H the other one. I was
sure and me and my my my

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friend Michelle, my friends and my
friend Shannon. I went to dinner party

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I want to visit and had a
great time. But I ended up staying

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next to and talking to a woman
named Shannon Speaker. She was a second

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ad on House. I believe that
was your title, and she said,

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you should be on television. We
were getting along laughing, and I'm like,

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I'm in a San Francisco working corporate
job. I don't even start talking

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about I love TV, but be
giving it's hard to do that right.

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You can't get on TV because I
can't. She was working on House,

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the number like the number one show
of the bad season, where I was

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like a huge hit. It was
in its fourth season, and she said,

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I get you on to tell you
when you want to come down,

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and I'll get you on. So
I did some smart I told my my

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bosses, I'm taking a week off. I had vacation time, so I

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get paid for that. Came down. I staying here at this house.

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I wasn't even living here yet,
not funny. Didn't look like this when

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I was here. And then I
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I was there and I'm in episode
four, season four. I do have

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stuff a Dodtor Simpson and I bit
the bug was bitten for me. So

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this picture I would not be here
to stay with you guys. It wasn't

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for this picture I found the other
day. And and Shannon is the third

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from the right, My friend Sharon, and that's her ex, my friend

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Steve. I don't know if he
was with that person anymore. And I

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mean my best friend Michelle. We
had the best time. So to Shannon,

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Sharon all the thank you so much. I really I owe a lot

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of my beginnings because of you guys. Me coming down this thing, it

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made me go. I was already
tired of the job that I had anyway,

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I was getting tired of it.
Anyway, I was getting tired of

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it, but it gave me.
It gave me an insight that all you

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could do background acting. I didn't
know what that was. You could like,

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you could actually do stuff. And
it's the right timing. Its two

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thousand and seven. It was the
right timing that technology was changing too,

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So that led me. It wasn't
until two years later I moved to LA,

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but it was it led me in
this thinking, Oh, I can

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go to LA. There isn't their
option. I could do something. This

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was a lot of fun. The
bug was bitten. I know I was

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going to do but I sign up
with Virgal Talent and I was like,

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I'll they have some jobs for me
La and the jobs I was living in

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Sanson, Skis wasn't far away.
So it's nothing. I don't remember when

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that was exactly. I got to
look back into my archives and my journals

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and stuff, but I just know
that I found that picture yesterday. I

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was like, that's why I'm here
today in twenty twenty three talking to you.

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Imagine that, right, So this
makes me smile. And this business

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is hard, and it's hard,
and there's been times when I couldn't do

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it. There are times when I
had to take care of family stuff.

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There are times I take care of
my other business stuff, my organizing business

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stuff. I at times when I
had to leave town and live somewhere else

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in between of all this, and
I thought I was gonna leave LA.

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I mean, there's there's I look
back at my sixteen years in this business

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and go, wow, there's so
much just happened. I have my own

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network now, I have several businesses. I'm really working hard and navigating this

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whole strike thing, which is expected. Its affected me also, and COVID

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and a pandemic death caregiver, all
this stuff. It's very interesting to go

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through all this stuff and try keep
it together. But in the end,

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I wouldn't have me. I wouldn't
haring other way. I mean, I

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plan to just the rest of my
life, how long that is. And

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I am and I know that I'm
one of the most fortunate people in this

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business to have a fan base and
a follower group that enjoys my product whatever

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it is. I a friend that
people who just like my musics and like

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my books whatever. But you guys
are supporting me, supporting my product,

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and I just and I know I
keep doing this with your support, you

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guys lift me up every day.
I see the comments. They're wonderful.

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And I and I said, when
I've come, I said, I've needed

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help. You guys have come to
my rescue. I can't even my colleagues.

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And my colleagues are they know,
they're just like James. You just

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you live in the life, and
I am I live the life. I

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can't even can't complain at all.
So thank you. So this week,

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as we take things day by day, right week by week, this week

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I am well and I'm doing well
today. I'm James L. Junior.

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channel like subscribing comments, and I
will talk to you next week. Sure

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will talk to you next week prior
week after it. Why don't you I'll

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talk to you guys,