All right. Here we are. This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown. Welcome to you if you're new and all the rest of y'all. What's going on? How are we doing?

Let me warn you, it might be a little intense around here today. There is a high degree of

convergence and deep irony at play.

And we are attempting to discuss difficult topics,

third rail topics, if you will.

Things that I think a lot of us,

if not all of us, are thinking about and nobody's willing to talk about.

So I decided to try.

And two weeks ago, I made some comments in the intro,

and I let myself go to a place that was risky, that crossed a boundary.

And, you know, it's something I've done before here on this show.

I don't script these intros.

I want them to be real.

But just because there's something in my head and it's honest in the moment doesn't mean it's a

good idea to just put it out into the world.

And I haven't done that in a while, you know?

I haven't tried to get into like sticky stuff or let myself just spout off on difficult

stuff that I might not think is a good idea later.

I haven't done that in a while and I did do that two weeks ago

because I think part of me wanted somebody to call me out,

to push back on me or dispel me of ideas that are maybe misguided. And I didn't get any

feedback last week, but I did get that feedback this week. And it totally coincided with today's

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