Revolutionary Optimism for Seniors w/ Dr. Paul Zeitz 7 Steps for Living as a Love-Centered Activist

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So sit back, relax, and get ready to laugh and listen to Ms Jones with her eclectic roster of guests as you learn life's lessons. These stories plus sharing equal success. Welcome and remember beware because you are entering the no whining world of January Jones. Hi everyone, I hope you're having a terrific day. I'm January Jones, and I'd like to welcome you to our podcast today. As you can see, I'm wearing my light blue glitter cowboy hat. Announcing a new brand. It is called Glitter Granny Gifts and it's going to be at Amazon. I'll be doing affiliate marketing and our website is set to open June first. I'll be launching all things glitter you name it, Cain's hats, jewelry, shoes, whatever that glitters, we'll be selling it. Now for my listeners, let me ask you a question. Are you an optimistic person? Well? Yeah, we all try to be, I'm sure. Tell me, are you feeling uncertain these days about the things that are going on in our world? Would you like to learn how to cope in a better way with these things? Tell me? Have you ever wanted to be a revolutionary? Hmm? Do you hope we can make this a better place, a better world for our children and our grandchildren? Tell me. Have you ever heard of a book called Revolutionary Optimism? Seven steps per living as a love centered activist. If you can answer yes or maybe to any of those questions, and you are in the right place, and I'd like to welcome you to January Jones Sharing Senior Success. Now, let me tell you a little bit about our guests. But before I do that, go get yourself some cheese, some crackers, and wine. Sit back and relax, because we have a most interesting guest today. Actually, he's been on the show before and I was so enchanted with him and his message that we've invited him to come back again. He wrote the book Revolutionary Optimism. It's a practical handbook for anyone feeling anxiety about their life and the crisis is in this world today. He shows you, step by step, how to approach this problem and how to make this world a better place to live for you, you and yours. It's my pleasure to welcome back to the show today, doctor Paul zites Hi, Doctor Paul, how are you hey, January? Thanks so much for having me back. It's great to see you again. I love the glitter. Yeah, we're going to be helping. I hope to help all these seniors Glittering Glow. I turned eighty this year, and I thought it was time that I do something for all the other seniors out there, and especially shopping. Marketplace is perfect because I love to shop. You're so creative. I'm inspired, Oh wonderful. Well, I'm inspired by having you back on the show. And as I told you when I invited you back, that you have one of the most impressive media kits that I've ever had the chance to look at and consider for the show. Tricia does a great job, and I'm happy to have you back. Now let's talk about just give us a little background on where you were born and how your career started out. Thank you. I was born in Philadelphia. My parents my father owned a Hogi shop, which is like a substandwich I think in most places, but in Philadelphia we call it Hogies, and he owned a shop, and I grew up around the shop. And I went to college and studied biology, and then went on to medical school in Philadelphia and became a doctor. And then I decided to specialize and focus on preventive medicine. So I got my specialty training at Johns Hopkins University and in Baltimore, and so that was where I really got involved in public health and preventive medicine, which is really health of the population. Instead of seeing patients one on one, I've spent my career looking at us as a group of people. Wonderful. Yeah, what a big undertaking you've had. And so you went to medical school, then you went to more medical school, and how many years have you spent in school to get where you are today? Just well, this is so long ago. Now I went to college. Medical school was eight years, and then my preventive medicine residency was like another three years where I'd got a mester's in public health, and then two more years, so it was eleven years of higher education after high school. Wow, what an undertaking. And I'm sure that you've had a lot of support from your family to help you along the way. And you are married and do have children. How long have you been married? May I ask? Of course? Yeah, I'm honored that my wife and I, Mindy, have been married. It'll be thirty four years coming up soon, and that's been the greatest blessing of my life. We have five we have four biological children and we have one adopted son. And they're adults now. So I have grandchildren now too. So I have two grandkids from my oldest son latest. So yeah, I have a full family life. And I feel it's the great greatest gift and honor that I've had in my life to be a father and now a grandfather and watch my watch these children become great people. Oh yeah, yeah, I feel the same way. We're twenty years ahead of you because we're coming up on fifty four. Woh yeah. And we have four kids and seven grandkids and they are just joint. I always say, your grandkids are you. They're your reward for not killing your children. I have that a lot on the show my fans. I've heard that before. Okay, so how did this How did your career affect your marriage? I mean, because you've moved around quite a bit. Yeah. I my wife and I were married, We had a lot of We had our first three children were in kind of rapid succession at the same time where I was launching my career in global health. So I was like traveling for two weeks, three weeks. I even went on a five week trip. I remember back then, even while we were dating, I was over in Africa, for months at a time, and so it came to a point after our second kid where we had to make a choice. Either I had to go domestic and give up global health and or we had to go to Africa, basically because I had worked in Asia Latin America, and then I really felt drawn and called to focus. That phased my career in Subsharan Africa, where the health conditions were the worst on the planet, where child health rates, debt rates for the highest, and the HIV AIDS pandemic was hitting in the most severe way. So we ended up moving. My wife was a nomadic wanderer as well, and so we took up the challenge to move our young family over to Zambia in Southern Africa back in nineteen ninety six. We left with three kids and came back with four we adopted as Zambian. I met young young person and you know, he's been part of our family ever since. Oh wonderful. You know, before we went on the air, I shared with you that my friend ed lived in Zambia too. So we're going to take a commercial break and when we come back, I want to hear more about what it's like to actually live in Africa from doctor Paul. And now we're going to talk about something that has been written for whiners. So if you are one or no One, the book for you. Lately, there is a whining epidemic in our world. People are even whining about whining. Are you sick and tired of listening to everyone whining all the time? So was January Jones, the author of Thou Shalt Not Whine The Eleventh Commandment that reached number one at Amazon dot com. Miss Jones based her book on a survey of the top ten things that people whine about at all ages and all stages of life. January is a success coach that can tell you how to help others. When you buy Thou Shalt Not Whine The Eleventh Commandment, you'll find out what people whine about and how to stop them from whining. This is the perfect gift book to give or get for any occasion. Thou Shalt Not Whine was voted the best gift to be given anonymously for those special people in your life. Miss Jones is an internationally known author in the style of Irma Bomback, specializing in housewife humor, with her book being publish in Korea and China. You can find Belchell nott Wine at Amazon dot com. Welcome back with Doctor Paul's Eides. And before we took the break, we were talking about Africa. Share with us a few of your experiences and tell it was what it was like to live in Zambia. Yeah. So I was living in Zambia in the late nineties and my wife and I had three young children at the time, so we were living what I call kind of a neo colonial life. We were there working on behalf of the US government. I was working for the US Agency for International Development and my wife was the embassy physician and I will do clinical medicine, so we were both supporting US government efforts there, and we had a very comfortable lifestyle. We had a nice house and we had a lot of people helping out with the kids. So that was a great gift. And I was working in the country at the time, and I was drawn to go work there because the child survival challenges were amongst the greatest in all of Africa. The child death rates, the under five mortality rate, the under one mortality rate were extremely high from preventable causes like we could vaccinate more effectively, we could have treatment for diarrheal disease and pneumonia and simple vitamins for example, what even a was there was a high rated deficiency, and we could find a way to create the health system so it could deliver those really life saving entities, you know, life saving solutions. So yeah, the property was immense. You know, eighty percent of the people were living on less than a dollar a day, so really I spent a lot of time traveling out to the compounds and the communities and around the country to the districts and you know, visiting the health centers. It was really very sad, and it turned out that we didn't know this when we went, but when we got there, we realized that we were living there when the AIDS pandemic was accelerating and young adults fifteen to forty four were the greatest impacted, and so all these young healthy people would get very sick and then die, and so yeah, you know, it was a very tough time. You know, at the University Teaching Hospital, which is in the center of the capital, the best hospital in the country, and the ads called it the departure Lounge because they knew it as a place where you would go to die. So I went on tours there and I was like, there were no antibiotics, there were no rubber gloves. There were two or three patients to a bit people sleeping on the floors of the hospital, one doctor for a reward of fifty or seventy people. It was really the level of care was so deficient from what I had understood basic human rights, the right to medical care should be. It was shocking at times. My gosh, that's interesting about the departure lounge room because we're airline people, and when we talk about someone passing, we talk about them taking the flight west and flying west. So it's interesting how in different parts of the world people have different ways of describing that. How long did you were you actually there with your family? We were there for four years. I had an awakening of sorts. I was driving past that hospital I just mentioned one day and I was going to, you know, towards this intersection that I had traveled by many times. But this one day, right in front of me, there was a mini van at the side of the road. It had been there many times, but I hadn't really seen it, and it was a Christian Aid Youth Project, Christian Aid Youth Project, and guess what they were doing. They were selling coffins and I like, I like saw it this one day, I pulled over and I wept because I was like, yeah, this was the epitome of a holocaust. Basically, the dying fields of Africa at the time when from HIV and AIDS in particular, and we had drugs and solutions in America and Europe and Japan, but the people in Africa did not have access to those life saving AIDS medicines, the triple drug cocktail it was called. And I became an activist at that point. That's when I really like said, I can't be in I can't be aware of this and not take action to try to solve the problem. So obviously that's where you came up with the fabulous title Revolutionary Optimism. So I now know what inspired you to write this book, and it's inspired your entire career. How long did it take for you to get this book put together and publish and get your message out? Yeah? Well, I published my first book, Waging Justice, back in twenty eighteen. That was a memoir, and about two years ago I realized that I was struggling over these years with anxiety and feeling despair about the state of our country and our world and all the challenges that we're facing. And so a couple of years ago, twenty twenty two, actually, I realized that twenty twenty four, the year we're in now, was going to be a big year. It was going to be a challenging year. There was going to be a lot of difficult things going on in our world. So that was when I decided to put together this book, Revolutionary Optimism, Seven Steps for Living as a Love Centered Activist. I'm a survivor of childhood sexual violence and I've been had early childhood trauma. So I've been working my whole life to heal myself and to you know, connect my own dealing with the service that I do in the world. And I felt like at this time I was ready to share, like the best practices, the greatest hits, if you will, how I have created my life, my journey of living as a love centered activist, and to make it available to others. You know, it's the book I wish I had when I was fifteen, for twenty or thirty or forty or fifty, and even you at eighty, I hope that you'll find it also inspirational. Yeah, well, your timing is totally perfect, because what a year we're having. And then it keeps. It just seems like every time we turn the news on it's something knew, something worse, so much controversy. It is a hard time when you're eighty or when you're eighteen to figure out how you're going to get through this whole mess. And you came up with seven steps, So it couldn't be more simpler. Could you just do an overview of those seven steps and then we can go into more detail. Yeah, thank you. So Yeah, I wanted to make it simple. I wanted to make it fun too, And it's serious work though. So the first few steps step one, two, and three are what are really about our self fulfillment, our self liberation? For us living as a revolutionary Optimist, it's like figuring out how we want to serve, what is our soul's purpose, and how do we connect with a collective consciousness in meaning that we're not in it, we're not alone, We're in this together with all of humanity. Actually, so, and then step four is the heart of the book. It's like where the you know, the life force of the book. It's called peace crafting, and it's about the relationship between myself and others. So like you and I are in a dialogue right now, or I'm in a dialogue with your listeners. So I came up with an approach to called peace crafting, which I you know, I can go into more detail about that. That's how we relate to the other with and dignity and as listening friends and so forth. And then the last three steps of the book are five, six, and seven are really focused on our collective liberation. It's about imagineering what visions do we have for creating a better world. How do we build movements love centered movements? And then how do we spark peaceful revolutions? How do we use peaceful resistance to bring forward the change that we want? And how can we be unifying, like bringing ourselves together as people live here in the United States and globally, because the challenges are immense and we need to we need to unify as much as we can. Yeah, And that pretty much breaks it down, and to finding out where you are yourself first and then reaching out to others and after our show that we did before we talked about talking to people like in the supermarket. Just seeing as you and I are doing now and reaching out to people in your daily life, give us some more examples of how people can actually reach out and make a difference. Yeah, So the book starts with its go time, and it's about starting right now, right today, with being aware that you're probably already a love centered activist. Actually you're already taking love actions and every action counts that self love and caring for yourself, taking care of your well being and whatever way you do that. It's the relationships that you're in, taking care of your children or your partner, or your extended family or your community. And then the broader service that we do, like the service you do by offering great products and great books and you know, great information. That's a form of love centered service that you're doing. So I think that's really the first step. And then waking up every day and going how can I serve you? Know which part of those options are you going to pursue? So it really I think it's really important. People often say, oh, well you've done this, You've done that. I can't my actions don't matter, or I'm not having an impact, and I really I'm trying to address that upfront, like your actions do matter. Every love centered action matters, and you already are doing enough and a lot, so take credit for it. Yeah, And how I want to mention also that you published the book and so yourself published, and how did that experience writing the book and publishing and now pomoting it, How did that affect your life? It was great? I really, I really. I made a commitment that one way that I could serve others was to get this book out of me, and so I felt like it was the revolutionary optimism spirit within me. I had to get it out, you know. And you have to have that kind of zest when you're trying to write a book, especially self publishing a book. You have to feel really clear that this is something you want to offer to others. And I was able to bring together a fantastic writing team with editors and researchers and partners who helped make the book really great, better than I could have done myself. It was a really a collective, a team that formed, and now it's out there. So I feel like I'm like the mother of it, and I gave birth to it. And I'm nursing it. Okay, I hear you. I hear you speaking of books. Thirty years ago, I did the same thing, and I tried to answer my theory of who killed Kennedy. Let me ask you a question, are you still wondering who killed Kennedy? Over fifty years later? The assassination is still a mystery. It is unfinished business for our country. Now get ready for a theory that you've never heard before, but will make more sense than any other conspiracy theory that you've ever heard in the past. January Jones speaks the unspeakable in her book Jackie and jack The tragic love triangle connecting Jackie and aristotalonass romantically prior to JFK's assassination. 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There you can learn click through to Amazon to buy the book, and then you can sign up and you get a free change Maker's Companion Kit, which is part of my effort to try to support you in your journey of revolutionary optimism. I've also published a journal and workbook which is a guide for you to take notes and explore the practices that are in the book. There's twenty three practices or prescriptions I call them, where you can explore ways of becoming a revolutionary optimist. And it also I really recommend that you do it with a group. And this book also has guiding questions for or group discussion. Well, what a great suggestion, because I know a lot of our listeners are in senior book clubs, and your book would be incredible because you can follow through and have projects and create a lot of activity, which you need to do as you get older. And this year is an election year, So how does optimism apply to our democracy? Because we want to have a robust democracy and you have some pretty good ideas you. Yeah, So as part of my work, I've also launched something called hashtag Unified Movements, which is a movement building platform. As I've been walking the path of Love and which is really the essence of revolutionary optimism, where where we ask the question with everything we do, how could you put love in the center of every step, every word, every action. And I started asking the question, what would it look like if we put love at the center of our social, economic, and political systems. What if we organized our whole society with a love lens and a love focus. That would be a very different way of organizing them we're currently organized. So yeah, our election, there's a lot at stake. And you know, I'm a strong believer in interpartisan movement building, so I work. I'm an independent myself. I work with Democrats, Republicans, independence. I do believe that no one party or one person has all the solutions. We need to unify and bring together. The bit the brightest and the best idea is I think most Americans agree on most of the solutions we'd like to see, and we just want to advance a new social and political movement that can really get at the room cause of our problem. And so I'm advocating for constitutional renewal, a set of constitutional amendments, or maybe rewriting the whole thing even so that we could, you know, create ourselves as a more loving, compassionate society and we could solve the complex challenges that we're facing. I mean, our whole country is founded on this concept of eplorus una like come together, right, So we need to encounter the fear and the division and the polarization that we're all experiencing. And it feels unstable, it feels harming, and it fuels this anxiety and hopelessness that I talked about earlier. With a new way of interacting with each other, Oh, for sure, that would be wonderful. I could listen to you all day, and you know, so many times now I'm hearing people say with the upcoming election, of course, being a senior, they say both these candidates are too old, and mostly sometimes they say they don't like either one of them. And then the horrible, horrible thing I hear is, I don't think I'm even going to vote. Oh yeah, that's alarming. We already have a major challenge with our democratic participation. Less than or about fifty percent of eligible voters actually participate in any one election, so that means there's like fifty percent of people aren't even voting normally. Now this election, I've heard the same thing where young people and elderly people, people of all ages are kind of fed up. They're tired of the you know, better of two evils, if you will, and they're looking for a different way forward. So I think it's going to be a tough choice, and I think people are going to have to sort that out, you know, what they think is best for the country. I certainly believe in the rule of law. I do believe that we have to have rules for how we want to live together and cooperate together. So I'm like tacking towards people that generally believe in the rule of laws for how our democracy functions. So I think that's the starting point. But I want to look here from everyone. I don't want to close out anyone the possibility of doing peace crafting with them and connecting and learning what their perspectives are. I think there's a lot of trauma that people are dealing with in their lives, and they get caught up in cultish kinds of efforts that can fill avoid in their lives. I think revolutionary optimism is a way to really figure out what you really believe, rather than believing what someone else believes. Absolutely, you know, I'd like to hear your thoughts because when I was growing up, I remember that the political conventions they were really an event and it wasn't a situation where it was all predecided. I can remember we would go day to day watching the television and each day there would be different nominations, there'd be votes, there'd be discussions about the platform, and it was incredibly educational. Right yeah, yeah, that was a more active participatory democracy for those that were participating back then. You you're right, we have totally lost that kind of what people call deliberative democracy. It's been This campaign, for example, was like a carnation ceremony for both candidates actually, and it was like redetermined by the parties and then they had these primaries. In some states, the Democratic Party, for example, blocked all other dates from even competing against the sitting president, as if it was like inevitable that he, the sitting president, would be the nominee. But we know that even in recent history, like Lynnan Johnson pulled out, you know, during the campaign year. Harry Truman also pulled out during the campaign year. So Democratic presidents with uh, you know, the Democratic Party didn't end up nominating them, and the same same on the Republican side. So it's been it's a disturbing thing. We've been calling for my colleagues and I have been calling for an open democratic convention where all candidates could compete and uh, you know, get rid of this carnation thing, and that would change democracy in America. Would shocked the country, shocked the world. And you know, I don't know if that's going to happen or not, but it's still possible. I read it's interesting. I read an editorial today on just that topic. I think it would give the energy to everyone, and it would be like and I'm all for bringing in young new people, and I'm all for term limits two, which is probably never going to happen, but to have them say never. Never say never, Right, That's where revolutionary optimism comes in. And I just want to offer this as a you know, there are ways to build love centered movements to transform the way things operate. We shouldn't assume that term limits is off the table. It should be on the table as a reform, as a healing for the way forward. I agree with you, Yeah, that's possible. Well, I know you've got a tough road to hoe here in this country. But we're going to take a break and hear about some priceless persons like doctor Paul who have been on my show, and when we come back, I want to talk to you about the difficulty in doing this in Europe worldwide and some of your thoughts on NATO. We'll be right back. 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Go to Amazon dot com for your own priceless experience. Welcome back with doctor Paul. Before we had our break, we were talking about this movement and how difficult it is to integrate it into this country. But then you're also faced with the situation of worldwide depression basically, and what are your thoughts on that? And also give us your read on the situation with NATO and these wars that are taking place in the countries right now. Yeah, thank you. Thanks for me, you know, throwing me easy questions. I appreciate that. Yeah, So I think democracy is very fragile, you know, as we know the United States is dealing with you know, how is our democracy going to fare even this year in the coming year, will the rule of law hold or won't it? And how will that evolve. But that same phenomena, the rise of nationalism, on populism and even fascism is rising in Europe as well. The democracies are very fragile. I was very surprised. I worked in Germany during twenty twenty two quite a bit. I was there many times, and the whole QAnon phenomena, for example, had spread to Germany as well, and so there was a big movement that was like trying to tear down their democratic government in the country of Germany. And you know, I think that, you know, President Trump really will challenge NATO during his presidency and really wanted other European countries to step up to the plate and invest properly. I mean, I think that was a legitimate approach that he led at that time. But he also then undermined the positive effects of NATO, which I think is really dangerous because we're seeing the rise of Russia. We're seeing China and Russia coming together. You know, the Ukraine War has been going on now for a couple of years. We've spent millions and billions of dollars and looks like Russia is still superior and you know, could could dominate that environment, and many Europeans that I spoke to believe that Russia may not stop at the Ukraine border. It might go into other countries, even in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Western Europe. So I think we're in a very dangerous time in Europe. You know, it's been relatively stable since World War Two, and it's volatile now, I would say, right, yeah, same with Israel Pales dying. The whole war going on, there has also been quite intense effect globally. M oh yeah, and that has just been affecting everyone because it was bad enough that we had the situation in Ukraine and as you've said, billions of dollars going there, and then now it's broken out again in the Middle East. Situation is just something every administration has to deal with, and it's very frustrating, isn't it. Yeah. We traveled to Israel Pales dying in April just a few weeks ago, about a month ago. I was there for eight days when was there for the Passover holiday, which is the festival of liberation in the Jewish religion. And I was there during that time and I spent a lot of time meeting with Israelis and Palestinians that were working together to come up with peaceful solutions, and it was a very it's the situation. It's dire, I would say, I don't mean to be whining. It's not allowed. I'm not whining. I'm just stating my experience of it that people are living with. The Israelis were hyper traumatized by the Hamas attack, the horrible, horrific brutality of the twelve hundred people that in that one day, and then of course the Iran attack where three hundred and ninety missiles and drones were shot at military targets, but also right to the heart of Jerusalem, and I think that really was surprising to everyone there. And the sense of security, the sense that Israel would be a safe haven for the Jewish people. I think that idea is shattered now. And on the other side, the Palestinians are witnessing what's going on in Gaza and the devastation that's being brought there, the famine, the thousands, close to forty thousand people at least have been killed in the last several months, and now the Israeli government is also increasing violence and attacks on Palestinians living in the occupied West Fact government know that that's really gotten much worse in the last since October seventh. Yeah, yeah, lucky. I'm ready anytime. There's a lot of trauma to be healed there, and it's good to know that trauma can be healed. And there are Israelis and Palestinians that are working together on a political movement to come up with a peaceful, coexistent solution. There's a group called a Land for All that I'm spending a lot of time with, who have a new vision for peace, actually modeled after the European Union. Two independent states and one confederation, one homeland confederation, and they believe this is the formula to solve some of the intractable problems that have prevented a two state solution in the past. So I left optimistically. We have a long road there too, but it's possible that we could come out of this with a better solution. Well. And I think it's wonderful for you to share that, because I think it's incredibly good news to hear that they are working together. We don't hear that much, we all. Yeah, all we hear is it's so dead end and everyone's angry, and we hear there's no solution. We see people politicians throwing up their hands. And when you're on then with the actual people who have to live it day by day. How encouraging to hear that there are ones out there really trying to make a difference. That's wonderful, that's very optimistic. Good news there. Yeah, it was really it was inspiring, honestly good. The community groups working together, like dealing with the daily struggles of getting food or getting transport, all those things for daily life. Then the political movement that I described, then the visionaries coming up with the New Vision for Peace. So at all levels that collaboration is happening, and it is an opportunity for us here in America to get behind some of those uh yeah, and it's you know, most people, the term revolutionary is for a lot of people, it's negative and they don't want to have a revolution, obviously, no one does. But to switch it over to optimism is an incredible idea movement, and I commend you so much for doing what you can do. Before we close out, just briefly, we have short time touch on climate change. Climate. Yeah, I've been working intensively on the climate emergency. I think we're in a very dire situation. Honestly, we're about on track to get to two degrees of warming celsius, which is way hotter than humans have ever experienced. It's never been that warm while we've been around, right, And so the good news is that we have the solutions. We can actually solve the climate emergency if we generate the political will and we're willing to all change and get off fossil fuels and shift to renewable energy and then start figuring out ways to remove the carbon that we've already pumped up in the atmosphere. There are ways that we could do that. We need we need, We need political leadership that is going to really mobilize our entire society, our whole federal government and all of our corporations and all of our citizens to get behind a really major effort to address this climate emergency. People are starting to feel it all over the country, and I think we have a chance now in the next few years to really turn it around. So I invite people to really consider this election being a critical determinant of how will fare, and that affects what will happen to our children and our grandchildren. Yeah, and this election is important, dealing with democracy, the economy, immigration, climate. And you're right, this is the thing that our children should be jumping on top of and seniors everyone. We need to do everything we can to get some change going time. Absolutely, it's time to write and to transform ourselves into a more just and peaceful way forward. Just quickly on the revolutionary thing, and then I'll stop. You know, you talked about revolutionary and people don't want it. I think people think of the violent revolutions that are actually already underway, the wars, the violence on our streets, the massive personration. I call these all the ongoing violent revolutions. And what I'm advocating for our counter response of peaceful revolutions, people rising for peace to counter the ongoing violent revolutions. So I wanted to demystify the word revolution and link into peaceful revolutions. Oh, and you're right, this is something that's happening every day in the streets. You know. One of the things that we've tried to do since my last show with you is stay away from depressing negative news. And so we found this incredible TV show that we're watching and it's from ages ago. It's called Monk and it's been on for long, many years ago, and we're in season three and it had each season has sixteen episodes and there's fifteen seasons. Yeah, youth holidays are key. Social media holidays are key. Yeah. Let your mind enjoy life too, right, Oh yeah, yeah, you have to take time out and yet the bottom line you have to laugh a lot and smile and have fun with this life we're given. Thank you so much for coming back. I always love having you with us, and thank you to the listeners for entering the no Wine zone. Share our story with everyone you know, and remember, stop whining, start smiling like Doctor Paul and myself. And if that doesn't work, then you can start eating chocolate, lots and lots of chocolate. 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