Fuck pain, fuck hard break, I'm still in love with life. From the multicultural headquarters of the future capital of the pre-thinking states of America known as Los Angeles, this is the Drunken-Daoist Podcast.

Tonight, it's interview time again as poet Samantha Reynolds who has written a poem a day since 2011 joins us for a chat including the power of habit as a motivator, searching for magic

in mundane things.

There are as many approaches to parenting as there are parents, mindfulness, baby whispers, and storytelling as a defining trait of being human.

Here we go.

And now, asking you all to spread the words that corporations are not persons, I'm

Richevers. And my partner in crime, the savage philosopher and middle figure of the gods, Daniellele, Bolle.

As we invite you to lower the lights, batten down the hatches, and prepare to open your mind.

For the Drunkend's Podcast begins now.

Hey guys, before we get started,

this interview was via Zoom,

and thanks to Internet Grimlins,

there are parts that just aren't as clean as we would want them to be.

But the conversation is too good not to share it with you.

So the crackly parts don't last too long, but they are indeed unpleasant.

I promise to do better next time.

Apologies to Sam for her interview not being as clean as it should be and to y'all as well but

it's a good one so bear with us and here we go. Welcome back everybody another fine episode of Drunkenow's Podcast,

episode 194.

It's interview time today with the fascinating Samantha Reynolds,

but we'll get all that in a moment.

But first, it's time to say hello

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