138. Air Conditioning's Hidden Cost
Air Conditioning's Hidden Cost
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In this week's Wellness Wednesday episode, Evan leans into the sweltering heat that has been brought about this summer. With these record breaking temperatures, air conditioners have been a hot commodity and for some a necessity. Being that Evan used to work in the HVAC field, he has seen the demand for A/C units increase as people have grown accustomed to keeping their houses cooler and cooler year after year. However, have you ever stopped to think about what kind of repercussion this could pose to your health?
Most people only care about cooling down when it's hot, and the last thing on their mind is the health risk that over utilizing an A/C can pose. Our bodies were designed to both cool down and heat up in response to environmental temperatures through a process called thermoregulation. Much like a muscle that isn't excessed atrophies, your body's ability to thermoregulate can be compromised.
This doesn't mean that you need to throw your A/C away, but rather just tune in to this episode to learn about how you can still use your A/C but in a healthier way.
As always, do everything with good intentions and connect to your elements.
Disclaimer:
This podcast is for educational purposes only, it is not a substitute for professional care by a doctor or other qualified medical professional. Evan Roberts is not a medical professional and this podcast is provided on the understanding that it does not constitute medical or other professional advice or services. Statements and views expressed on this show are not medical advice, this podcast, including Evan Roberts and any guests on the show, disclaims responsibility for any possible adverse effects from the use of information contained in this episode. If you think you have a medical problem please consult a medical professional.
References:
https://lpi.oregonstate.edu/mic/micronutrient-inadequacies/overview
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21950966/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150223122602.htm
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Speaker:Now today's episode is like I said, going to be pertaining to summer.
Speaker:So summer time obviously brings around.
Speaker:A lot of heat, depending on, uh, what part of the world you live in?
Speaker:It can vary by.
Speaker:I was actually just in Arizona and the high temperature in Phoenix
Speaker:was 115 degrees Fahrenheit.
Speaker:Which is pretty freaking hot.
Speaker:And, uh, for those of you who live in desert areas, or even worse, in my
Speaker:opinion, in an area with a really high humidity and high heat, um, then you
Speaker:all know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker:For those of you who live in cooler climates.
Speaker:The summertime is probably extremely enjoyable for you.
Speaker:Uh, but nonetheless, this is still going to be a topic that will pertain to you.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:I first want to start off with talking to you about the human species?
Speaker:So the human species is really a very adaptive species.
Speaker:And if you're wondering where the heck I'm going with this,
Speaker:just stick with me for a second.
Speaker:I promise it ties in.
Speaker:But we are very, very adaptable.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:If you think about it, we are one of the few species that can live on
Speaker:pretty much any part of the world.
Speaker:Um, aside from in the ocean, although there are actually tribes
Speaker:that build their huts on top of the water and they are nomadic and
Speaker:they live primarily on the water.
Speaker:So for the most part, we are.
Speaker:Able to live in almost any part of the world.
Speaker:And on top of that, we're also able to change our diets and still.
Speaker:Prosper in different areas of the world.
Speaker:I mean, if you think of, you know, the Eskimos up in the really frozen cold
Speaker:areas of the world, they're eating diets that are really high in protein and fat.
Speaker:Whereas if you were to go look at tribes down in the Amazon, they're
Speaker:going to be eating a lot more plants, uh, fruits and vegetables.
Speaker:They're going to be eating still some meat, but it's going
Speaker:to be a very different diet.
Speaker:And on top of that, the weather is completely different, obviously, right?
Speaker:The Eskimos.
Speaker:We are dealing with a very cold frozen Tundra that you know,
Speaker:is going to require them to.
Speaker:Create fires and, uh, you know, really work on trying to stay warm.
Speaker:Whereas in the Amazon, it is the complete opposite, right.
Speaker:People are trying to stay nice and cool.
Speaker:Now, the reason I bring that up is because of something known as thermal regulation.
Speaker:So thermoregulation is the body's ability to control your
Speaker:temperature, your core temperature, and really maintain homeostasis.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:We actually require a very small range of temperature variance in
Speaker:our body for us to not only thrive, but to actually just live right.
Speaker:If we get too hot.
Speaker:Uh, we can have, uh, like a fever, which is a lot of times what can
Speaker:happen when you have a virus or if you get too cold, it can be hypothermia.
Speaker:So we really do require a very tight range of temperature, which means that.
Speaker:If we are in a area or an environment that is very cold, our body has to be
Speaker:able to keep our core temperature up.
Speaker:And if we're in a very hot area, our body has to be able to keep
Speaker:our CU uh, our core temperature.
Speaker:Cool.
Speaker:Enough.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:Now, when we look at, you know, I stated these people who would be living
Speaker:in cold Tundras and then people who live in the Amazon, well, they had
Speaker:to simply rely on thermal regulation to maintain their core temperatures.
Speaker:However, nowadays we have some beautiful inventions and one of
Speaker:those is the air conditioner.
Speaker:Now.
Speaker:When it comes to a lot of our technological advancements.
Speaker:A lot of the times they tend to be things that, you know, solve an issue.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:They, they are things that make us more comfortable.
Speaker:They make life easier.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:They're trying to make it so that we can enjoy life and also be in areas that maybe
Speaker:we wouldn't have been as comfortable.
Speaker:Uh, yes, we could have lived there, but we wouldn't have been as comfortable.
Speaker:And definitely air conditioning is one of those things.
Speaker:However, air conditioning doesn't necessarily mean.
Speaker:That because it can work and feels really, really nice.
Speaker:Extremely hot day.
Speaker:It doesn't mean that it is necessarily the best thing for you.
Speaker:Now, this is coming from a person who actually worked in the HVAC
Speaker:field for a very long time.
Speaker:Um, you know, I've been out in the heat, installing, uh, air conditioners and
Speaker:I have a lot of experience with them.
Speaker:Um, you know, it was in a, uh, in Palm Springs, out in the desert area.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:I'm very familiar with the, I would kind of say a necessity for
Speaker:them, especially for some people.
Speaker:So don't think that I have something out against, uh, air conditioners.
Speaker:I do enjoy the use of them just as much as the next person.
Speaker:But I do want to be very, uh, non-biased on this.
Speaker:And when we just look at the sheer facts of what's going on, it
Speaker:definitely looks like air conditioning might have some repercussions that
Speaker:we are not very familiar with.
Speaker:Uh, I also like to think of other inventions that might be very
Speaker:useful, but have other, uh, kind of implications to them or they make us.
Speaker:Have to work a little bit harder in other ways.
Speaker:So when we think of cars, for example, cars are extremely valuable.
Speaker:They can take us from point a to point B in an incredibly fast.
Speaker:Uh, you know, short amount of time.
Speaker:But this leads to us being a little bit lazier, not getting the
Speaker:exercise that we would have gotten.
Speaker:And, uh, really walking is a, you know, biologically demanding,
Speaker:uh, thing from our bodies to us.
Speaker:Our bodies are expecting us to get out and go walking.
Speaker:Uh, pretty much every single day.
Speaker:Uh, and we don't do that, especially here in California.
Speaker:We definitely drive our cars for pretty much everything.
Speaker:Walking is not usually a feasible thing to get from point a to point B.
Speaker:So that's just one example.
Speaker:We also have things like monocropping, which, uh, yes,
Speaker:people were able to produce a ton of food, but at what cost, right.
Speaker:Uh, depleted nutrients from our soils and a ton of other bad things that
Speaker:we don't need to get into right now.
Speaker:But basically the main point here is that.
Speaker:While these inventions may have a lot of, uh, utilization and they may seem
Speaker:incredible and they are in many ways.
Speaker:Uh, it doesn't mean that they're going to be the best thing for us.
Speaker:Uh, in fact it actually means that we are living in a life or in a world.
Speaker:Where comfortability is really at our fingertips.
Speaker:I mean, if you think about it, we live in a world where you can
Speaker:actually choose to not be hot.
Speaker:If you really want it to, you could stay inside your house all day long.
Speaker:And you could even just run out to your car really quick and turn
Speaker:on your air conditioner so that you are spending a very minimal
Speaker:amount of time in hot weather.
Speaker:Okay, this is something that.
Speaker:Many people, uh, literally like 40 years ago did not have access to.
Speaker:And there are many parts of the world where they do not
Speaker:have access to this still.
Speaker:So we have to understand that we live in a world that is very, very comfortable.
Speaker:It is catered to comfort in so many different ways.
Speaker:In fact, it is so comfortable that we actually have to choose to do difficult
Speaker:things, to make sure that we are staying resilient and healthy, right.
Speaker:Instead of staying inside where it is nice and air conditioned all day long,
Speaker:we have to force ourselves to get outside and go on a walk and allow our bodies
Speaker:to feel the increase in temperature from our environment so that our body can.
Speaker:Kick in it's thermal regulation and thermal adaptability so that we can.
Speaker:Keep using that function and allow our bodies to hold on to that
Speaker:function and also to remain healthy.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Um, being able to regulate our temperatures properly is very,
Speaker:very important for us in staying healthy and not just staying
Speaker:healthy, but actually staying alive.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:It is absolutely crucial for our bodies to maintain homeostasis.
Speaker:So I know a lot of people are, you know, maybe they look at, um, having the
Speaker:choice to be comfortable as a bad thing.
Speaker:I like to look at it as a really good thing.
Speaker:Um, what a blessing it is to be able to say, Hey, I have to choose to do something
Speaker:hard so that I can stay resilient as opposed to really not having a choice.
Speaker:Uh, like I was saying, you know, 40, 50 years ago.
Speaker:Um, I can even refer to my parents.
Speaker:I know that my parents, they grew up without any air conditioning
Speaker:at all, and it was still hot.
Speaker:You know, it's still hit the triple digits in Fahrenheit.
Speaker:Uh, during the summertime and realistically, they just had to deal with
Speaker:it and get crafty, um, make makeshift, uh, swamp coolers in their rooms and
Speaker:find any way possible of cooling down.
Speaker:But their bodies were really utilizing thermoregulation like it should.
Speaker:Now I definitely wanted to bring in at least one study here.
Speaker:So I'm going to go ahead and bring that in to just provide, uh, some.
Speaker:Background and scientific data to show that this, what I'm
Speaker:talking about is absolutely true.
Speaker:I'm not just pulling this out of nowhere.
Speaker:Um, but basically I found on the NIH website.
Speaker:That they took two groups of people.
Speaker:They took people who were acclimated to what's called
Speaker:naturally ventilated environment.
Speaker:And they took people who were acclimated to air conditioned environments.
Speaker:Now they wanted to see what the physiological responses were from the
Speaker:two groups of people when placed in what they called a heat shock environment.
Speaker:And they labeled it, a climate chamber, which I'm honestly guessing
Speaker:is probably a sauna of some kind.
Speaker:Maybe it doesn't, they weren't heating it up super high, but, um,
Speaker:I didn't see that it was specified in there, but nonetheless, they
Speaker:placed them in this climate chamber.
Speaker:And so they actually took, uh, 10 people from what they called the envy
Speaker:group or the naturally vendor, uh, ventilated environment and, uh, 10
Speaker:people from the AC environment and placed them in this climate chamber.
Speaker:Now not surprisingly at all.
Speaker:The results showed that the NV group or the naturally ventilated
Speaker:group had a significantly stronger capacity for physiological
Speaker:regulation to the heat shock.
Speaker:Then the AC group, which in other words, the envy group did not feel as hot and on
Speaker:and as uncomfortable as the AC group did.
Speaker:Um, I don't think that's surprising at all.
Speaker:If a person is outside all day long or just simply dealing with whatever
Speaker:temperature the mother nature wants to bring, as opposed to the person that
Speaker:can control their temperature, um, when they're placed in a hot environment, it
Speaker:only makes sense to me that the group.
Speaker:Uh, that is most acclimated to the natural ventilation is going to do better.
Speaker:Uh, these results strongly indicated that living and working in indoor thermal
Speaker:environments for long periods of time.
Speaker:Affects people's physiological act.
Speaker:Uh, climatization also, it appears that long-term exposure to
Speaker:stable AC environments may weaken people's thermal adaptability.
Speaker:So what does that mean?
Speaker:It basically means that if you stay indoors too long and rely on a
Speaker:controlled environment in terms of temperature, whether it is both heating
Speaker:and cooling, This can have long-term effects inter uh, with regards to
Speaker:your body's ability to regulate your internal temperature, essentially.
Speaker:This, like I said, can be very problematic, especially down the
Speaker:line of when you're older and your body is not as capable of
Speaker:regulating the temperature naturally.
Speaker:Um, you know, this can really.
Speaker:Have some bad effects and, possibly even at the worst case scenario, like lead
Speaker:to death, I know we've heard of a lot of these heat waves that have been hitting.
Speaker:And it is typically the older people who pass, but , this is something that we
Speaker:can really try to buffer for ourselves.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:We can try to allow our bodies to work and naturally work in terms of, uh,
Speaker:regulate regulating our temperatures.
Speaker:Also, I'm not to say that.
Speaker:Of course, if you live without an air conditioner, um, or, you know, heating,
Speaker:you're going to, uh, live a long life and never have any issues with a temperature
Speaker:or even death related to temperature.
Speaker:Uh, that is not the case, but this is going to help build your resiliency.
Speaker:And that is really what we're focusing on.
Speaker:I'm really, really big on increasing our resilience as, um, as a
Speaker:species, but also just individually.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:I think it's really important for us to, uh, you know, have to choose
Speaker:those hard things in life because we do live a very comfortable life.
Speaker:And really making sure that our bodies are getting income uncomfortable in one way
Speaker:or another so that it can be adaptable.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:Our bodies need a level of stress in order to.
Speaker:Essentially be healthy.
Speaker:If you think about even lifting weights, right?
Speaker:What do you think you're doing?
Speaker:You're applying stress to your body so that your body can
Speaker:react and adapt to that stress.
Speaker:So when you tear those muscle fibers, you can go sleep and your body will
Speaker:repair them stronger than they were before so that you can come back and
Speaker:lift those weights and not feel as strained on them and even lift heavier
Speaker:weights than what you did the day before.
Speaker:So our body really does require a level of stress, a level of, uh, you
Speaker:know, kind of demand from us in order to respond to it and, uh, to remain
Speaker:resilient, which I think resiliency is going to be huge, um, is huge.
Speaker:It's something that we really.
Speaker:I need to have more of, we need to stay resilient both mentally and physically.
Speaker:Now that is a personal opinion.
Speaker:Um, but I do believe it is very important, not only for how we show
Speaker:up in life, but also for our health.
Speaker:And, uh, I also wanted to mention that that if you do have an air conditioner,
Speaker:uh, there is nothing wrong with using it.
Speaker:I do not want to demonize, uh, using the air conditioner.
Speaker:Uh, if you live in Phoenix, Arizona, for example, I would be absolutely
Speaker:blown out of my mind if you were not using an air conditioner.
Speaker:Um, but with that being said, I do think that we can strategically use things like
Speaker:our air conditioner or even our heater.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:It applies to both the hot and the cold.
Speaker:But what I would recommend is for someone who lives in an area where let's say
Speaker:it really doesn't get that hot, let's say it maybe only gets into the high
Speaker:eighties, maybe even the low nineties.
Speaker:Inside your home might reach up into the low to mid eighties,
Speaker:depending on how hot it is outside.
Speaker:Maybe it's 81 degrees inside your house.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:It's not the most comfortable, but it is absolutely manageable.
Speaker:And it is something that you could go ahead and just kind of push through
Speaker:and allow your body to adapt to it.
Speaker:And eventually it will become something that feels kind of normal.
Speaker:In fact, when I was working out in the desert, Uh, a lot of the people
Speaker:out there can only cool their houses down into the low to mid eighties,
Speaker:about 83 to 83 degrees sometimes.
Speaker:And for them that feels absolutely comfortable because when you're
Speaker:going from 110 degrees to 83 degrees, that's a massive difference.
Speaker:And, uh, it feels quite cool.
Speaker:But, you know, I even looked at myself where I worked a entire summer without
Speaker:an air conditioner in my truck and my body absolutely adapted to the heat.
Speaker:It just got used to it.
Speaker:It no longer felt like it was uncomfortable all the time.
Speaker:Sweat just was normal.
Speaker:Um, hot temperature was a normal, uh, it was just the body, literally adapting
Speaker:to the surroundings, which it is.
Speaker:Built to do it is literally built to do that.
Speaker:So what I would recommend is if you have an air conditioner, Go ahead and bump
Speaker:the temperature degrees up a little bit.
Speaker:You can still leave the AC on, but let's say maybe you usually set it to 75.
Speaker:Maybe you set it to 78.
Speaker:Maybe you even set it to 80 degrees.
Speaker:Allow your body to get a little bit uncomfortable.
Speaker:Maybe even go outside in the earlier parts of the day or the later parts of the day.
Speaker:Uh, and allow your body to feel the uncomfortability of heat, allow your
Speaker:body to regulate the internal temperature and use its thermal regulation.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:Like I really do believe that if we stop using these functions of our bodies, Our
Speaker:bodies will not completely lose them, but they might not use them as well.
Speaker:So it is important for us to definitely utilize a thermal regulation.
Speaker:So getting outside, maybe bumping the temperatures up a little bit.
Speaker:Or if you want to be hardcore, you could even just leave your
Speaker:air conditioner off during the day, but turn it on at nighttime.
Speaker:Now, the reason I am a proponent for putting on your air conditioner at night
Speaker:time, or at least cracking the windows, if you get a nice breeze is because the
Speaker:body does tend to really prefer a cool temperature when trying to go to sleep.
Speaker:It actually has been shown to improve sleep.
Speaker:Uh, efficiency and allow people to get to sleep faster.
Speaker:Uh, it does a whole bunch of different things that are really,
Speaker:really good for your sleep.
Speaker:So for that reason, I am okay with you using your air conditioner
Speaker:at nighttime, by all means.
Speaker:Or like I said, if it cools down enough at your wherever you're living
Speaker:and you're able to open your windows and just use that, then go for it.
Speaker:Plus, and this is not really where I was going with it, but it will absolutely
Speaker:help out your electricity bill.
Speaker:Um, air conditioners can be an energy hog.
Speaker:So that is just kind of a nice little bonus there.
Speaker:But.
Speaker:On top of all of the things I've covered, this is also why I'm a huge fan of things
Speaker:like cold exposure and heat therapy.
Speaker:Not only are they asking your body to use thermal regulation, but when you do cold
Speaker:exposure, like an ice bath, for example, you also have increases in dopamine.
Speaker:You have increases in neuro epinephrin, which are literally like.
Speaker:The best way to wake up.
Speaker:It is a cup of coffee.
Speaker:On a next level, it will keep you energized for hours on end.
Speaker:Um, it can also increase your level of brown fat, which is something that
Speaker:you definitely do want, um, white fat is the fat that you do not use.
Speaker:It is just sitting there on your body.
Speaker:And the brown fat is brown because it's so dense in mitochondria.
Speaker:That it is, uh, the one that's going to be used for energy.
Speaker:So we really want brown fat.
Speaker:And by doing cold exposure to like an ice bath, you can
Speaker:increase your levels of brown fat.
Speaker:Um, and then also going into a sauna, for example, um, I forget the study.
Speaker:Exactly, but it was done in Finland, which absolutely makes
Speaker:sense because the finished people love their saunas and they were.
Speaker:Uh, it's found that just using a sauna, like it was something
Speaker:like once or twice a week.
Speaker:Uh, for, I don't know, like 30 minutes, I'm sorry.
Speaker:I'm totally butchering this, but essentially you're going to drop
Speaker:your chances of, you know, getting sick or even, I think it was like
Speaker:all cause mortality by like 20 or 30%, it might even be more than that.
Speaker:Um,
Speaker:Sorry, like I said, I totally butchered that should've came
Speaker:with the actual study here.
Speaker:Um, if I find it, I'll go ahead and link it in the show notes.
Speaker:But nonetheless, doing things that get your body uncomfortable
Speaker:will help your health.
Speaker:It will help your body, and it will also help your mind helps you to
Speaker:be resilient in more ways than one.
Speaker:And for that reason, I believe it is important for us to, while we have
Speaker:all of these modern amenities and ways to be comfortable and keep the body
Speaker:comfortable, which is truly a blessing.
Speaker:It is on us to choose the difficult things.
Speaker:And for that reason, by choosing something difficult, I think you're actually
Speaker:becoming even more resilient than someone who does, or didn't have a choice.
Speaker:Someone back in the day who, you know, the air conditioner, maybe
Speaker:wasn't invented at that time.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:They had no choice.
Speaker:They just had to go through it.
Speaker:Whereas you actually have to choose to go be uncomfortable,
Speaker:which is even more willpower.
Speaker:So, uh, by doing so it's going to keep you resilient and keep you strong.
Speaker:So I highly highly recommended that this summer, while I know it is cooking
Speaker:and, um, be safe with it, you know, definitely don't put yourself in a
Speaker:sketchy situation where you could end up with heat stroke or something like that.
Speaker:But, uh, be comfortable with getting a little uncomfortable, raise the
Speaker:temperature on your thermostat a little bit, get hot sweat, let your
Speaker:body regulate, uh, naturally the temperature, the core temperature of
Speaker:your body, and, uh, yes, stay healthy.
Speaker:That's that's the whole goal of this show, obviously.
Speaker:Um, but yeah, that's going to do it for today.
Speaker:I know this is a pretty simple topic, but, um, it's something that has been top of
Speaker:mind for me because I've been doing a lot of driving and, uh, been outside a lot.
Speaker:So I have been exposed to the.
Speaker:Um, environmental temperature, which, uh, even still here living in California
Speaker:has been, uh, definitely pretty hot.
Speaker:And like I said, I was just in Arizona.
Speaker:So, um, this is something that has been reoccurring on my mind and it's something
Speaker:I wanted to share with all of you.
Speaker:It's, uh, something I talk about a lot, so.
Speaker:Anyways, I hope you guys took something away from this.
Speaker:And like I said, not telling you to not use your conditioner, but I might
Speaker:be telling you to use it a little bit less and go out and get uncomfortable.
Speaker:It's going to do wonders for you, uh, both mentally and physically.
Speaker:And you can thank me later on those.
Speaker:Uh, you might not think me in the moment when you're sweating, but.
Speaker:Trust me.
Speaker:It's good for you.
Speaker:Uh, okay.
Speaker:That's going to do it for today's show you guys.
Speaker:Uh, I really, like I said, in the beginning of the show, truly, truly
Speaker:appreciate your listenership and, uh, all of you for just being here.
Speaker:It means the world to me.
Speaker:And I hope you enjoy these episodes.
Speaker:I will be having some really awesome guests coming up here shortly.
Speaker:Uh, the next few episodes are going to be guest episodes.
Speaker:If I'm not mistaken.
Speaker:And aside from that, just going to continue to try to bring you all
Speaker:very practical, useful information that is going to improve your life,
Speaker:improve the quality of your life, improve the quality of your health.
Speaker:That is really the goal of this podcast.
Speaker:It is to provide you with information that you can apply to your life today.
Speaker:You can take what serves you and leave what doesn't.
Speaker:Um, that is just truly the goal here is to provide you with information.
Speaker:I believe one more.
Speaker:Educated and we can make.
Speaker:You know, educated decisions on certain topics.
Speaker:Um, that is really.
Speaker:Powerful.
Speaker:And that's my goal here is I want to educate you and provide you with
Speaker:information so that you can make the best possible decision for you and your family.
Speaker:So I hope this episode did that for you.
Speaker:And, uh, if you know someone who would benefit from hearing this episode,
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Speaker:Uh, it's a great way to support the show.
Speaker:And yeah, just keep spreading the word.
Speaker:Uh, Spread it to your friends your family your loved ones and like i said anyone
Speaker:who needs to hear this message also if you share any of these episodes on your
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Speaker:And uh we'll be able to connect on there as well you can always reach out to me
Speaker:if you have any questions or if you want to hear anything Uh spoken more in depth
Speaker:on this show Uh please reach out to me and let me know and until next week
Speaker:everyone i hope you have a beautiful rest of your week Uh you know the metal
Speaker:of the ship uh sorry the motto of the motto of the show Which is do everything
Speaker:with good intentions and connect your elements Much love to all of you thank
