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What's going on everybody? Welcome to

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the Everything Experiment. My name is

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Austen LeTourneau and I am somebody who

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is so pumped to be bringing this show to

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you and we're finally here. This show,

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if I could sum it up for you in one

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sentence, is a living documentary of

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what it means to really be alive. And

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I'm going to explain that because

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to give you a little bit of backstory,

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I'm somebody who spent most of my life

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in survival mode, 30 years, you know,

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three decades living subconsciously,

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just going through the motions. And all

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of a sudden,

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some events in my life brought me out of

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survival mode, thankfully. And I looked

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forward for the first time ever in my

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life and thought, "Holy shit." Like, I

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haven't been living at all. I have just

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been subconsciously

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on autopilot for my whole life. And

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there's so much [ __ ] out there to

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explore. And I've got this freaking bone

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in me to just [ __ ] explore

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everything. And I'm so I'm such a

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curious person. And when I finally

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accessed

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that

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ability to just honor myself, I started

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to say, "Fuck, I'm going to go out and

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I'm just going to I'm going to do all of

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the things that I've been wanting to

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do." Like, why not? Life is so [ __ ]

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short. And I I heard a quote from oh, I

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forget who it was, but they said that

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one of the leading regrets that people

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list when they're on their deathbeds is

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that they didn't do more. And the way I

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interpret that quote is not necessarily

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like,

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you know, I should have done more in my

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career or or or whatever or put more

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effort into my job or whatever. That

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might be some people's and that's

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totally fine. mind though is I I

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honestly just got super real with myself

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and said

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think about when you're 70, 80, 90, who

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who knows how old you'll be, but just

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think of yourself as an old man on your

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deathbed and you really don't want to be

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that person that says you wish you did

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more. You do not want there's there's

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another platform out there that talks

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about like the the ghosts of who you

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could have been standing around your

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deathbed and it's just like this

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powerful moment where you go there's so

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much to explore in life and life really

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is short and whether you have like a

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health scare or something that kind of

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jolts that in you it can be a lot of

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things that do that but I'm so grateful

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that in my life you know certain things

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occurred even though in the moment they

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were difficult

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They ultimately woke me up. And when I

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woke up, I said, you know what? I wanted

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to do more now. And I needed to honor

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that creativity and that explorer and

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that adventure within me now because I

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didn't want to have it be too late where

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I wasn't able to do it. And so on this

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show, we're covering everything. And

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that's why it's called the Everything

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Experiment because you know what? The

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the best experiment is living. and we're

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covering science, art, culture, the

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cosmos, cuisine, travel, nutrition,

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fitness,

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you know, anything is game on this show

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and that's why I'm so excited because

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when I think back to why I initially

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wanted to,

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you know, start start a podcast was

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because I wanted to

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I wanted to just explore everything. I

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wanted to be curious about all the

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things that intrigued me. And in doing

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so, I wanted to meet people. I wanted to

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go places. I wanted to experience

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things. And for such a large portion of

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my life, it had just been wake up, eat,

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work,

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survive, make myself small, go to bed,

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wake up, do it all over again.

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And talk about just being miserable.

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Before long, my life blew up, but it

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needed to blow up because now we're

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here. And now the everything experiment

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is underway. And I'm so [ __ ] pumped

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because what I want this show to inspire

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in people is to live an intentional life

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and to go out there and just do the

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things that interest you and intrigue

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you. And you know, you might be afraid

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of making decisions or you might be

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afraid of like trying new things. And

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I'm somebody that because of living so,

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you know, sheltered and subconscious for

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such a long time, I was like afraid to

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branch out and try stuff. But like as

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I've been doing it and trying new things

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and just kind of loosening up a bit, I

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shouldn't say a bit, I should say a lot.

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as I've been loosening up a bunch,

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it's just this lightness that I carry

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into my life now. And granted, we all go

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through things that are challenging, but

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the the important thing is is that we

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soak up

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everything that we can get out of life

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while we're here because we only get one

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freaking ride around this planet and

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that's it. That is it. And so I have

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made it my life's mission to pursue the

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ultimate life of intention and to bring

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you along for that ride in the hopes

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that it'll do the same thing for you or

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help you make that same kind of

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adjustment in your life to really just

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do the things that you want to do or do

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the things that intrigue you or interest

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you. So like I said, you know, we're

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we're covering any topic. We're going to

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talk with so many different people. I'm

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going to be, you know, putting myself in

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certain experiences and kind of talking

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about how those things go and what I

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learned from those things. And I can

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already tell you that, you know, as I've

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been starting that process for myself,

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I've already had such like breakthroughs

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already where I'm looking like, why was

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I ever even afraid of that? you know,

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like something that you might be afraid

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of or like scared to do or pursue or

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nervous to pursue

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can open up the ultimate liberation for

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your life and introduce something

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[ __ ] awesome for you. And so, this

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show is literally all about just soaking

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up everything we can out of life. And,

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you know, I'm somebody who is

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interested in so many different things.

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surfing,

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science, you know, nature. That's

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another big one that we're going to

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cover a lot of, but it's going to go

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anywhere and everywhere. The Everything

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Experiment is here.

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I'm so excited that you're here. I

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really am grateful to have you and I

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hope that you are able to get a lot out

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of this and I hope you're ready. I hope

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you're ready to just hear about so many

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different things. Hear and see so many

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different things. I'll probably be

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sharing some clips that I try that I do

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film and some of the experiences. I'll

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probably weave some in and out of

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certain episodes, but

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this is going to be a [ __ ] ride. It's

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going to be so much fun. It's also going

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to be really deep and intimate at times

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depending on what we're exploring

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because like I said, we're going to get

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into some heavy [ __ ] We're gonna get

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into some really light-hearted and fun

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[ __ ] It's gonna be all over the place,

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but that's exactly why we're doing it,

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man. is this is the best experiment we

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can all

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pursue is the experiment of life and

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figuring out what makes us tick and what

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just brings us alive and what makes us

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feel like we're really

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just so at peace and fulfilled with the

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life that we've lived by the time we

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reach the end of the road. So,

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strap in, get excited, get pumped. I am,

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and I'm really grateful that you're

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here. The everything experiment is going

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to take us all over the place. And I'm

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so excited. It's so different from the

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old me.

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But the old me was not the real me. This

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is the real me. And that's what this

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show is all about, inspiring in others,

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is the real you. Go out there, do more,

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do [ __ ] do the things you want, and

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pursue what intrigues you. So again,

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welcome to the Everything Experiment.

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Thank you so much for being here, and we

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will catch you on the next one.

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