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Welcome to this bonus episode of Round Trip Death and part two of our interview with Felice DiMartino.
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After we finish up talking with Felice, I hope you'll stick around because we're going to talk
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a little bit about some ideas for the future of this show and I would love your input. So
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please be sure to stick around for that and to email any input that you might have to
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Eric at roundtripteath.com. Alright, let's finish off the interview. From the time that they
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pronounced me dead was a good 45 minutes. They cut my clothes and then they paddled my heart,
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my heart had stopped and I could see people screaming and crying but I didn't realize that was
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actually my physical body because I was somewhere else. The only thing that I could feel if you could
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imagine absolute love and peace. There wasn't anything else to be felt. I was greeted by people
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I'd known in the past. I'm back home again. Incredibly safe and felt at home.
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Shifting gears in a major way here. Tell me about shared death experiences. I find these fascinating.
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They're not talked about very much but I know that you've had some experience with it.
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Would you mind telling us about those experiences? Sure. So in 2006 I was with my grandmother.
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She had been in and out of hospice for like a few years basically. The night she passed I was there.
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I was by her bed. The first thing that happened was there was an I was there the hospice nurse was
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there and there was a knock at the door and there was something in me that knew that there's not
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going to be anyone at the door. We're not expecting anyone. It was like late it was 10 30 11 o'clock
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and it was late and sure enough we go to the door there's no one there. It's funny because it felt
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like the hospice nurse at the time was a little spooked and I was just like oh this is so cool
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right to experience this kind of stuff and I was open to this always. At some point we call my
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aunt and uncle they come over because the hospice nurse was like you know have them come over it
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could be any time that like tonight feels like it's going to be the night that she passes.
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So my aunt and I are in the bedroom with her with my grandmother. She has a hospital bed. I'm sitting
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by the bed I'm holding her hand. My aunt goes to lay in the it was a big king-size bed and I'm
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holding her hand talking to her telepathically. My grandmother saying grandma it's okay you can go
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where I'll find you're so loved like I'm talking telepathically again and that's another thing.
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All of this and what happened in the near-death experience is telepathic. It's this telepathic
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energy communication and I'm holding her hand. I know that when I let go of her hand that's going
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to be it. So I'm saying you can go but meanwhile I'm holding her hand right. You're keeping her
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hand. Right exactly so the hospice nurse finally says get into bed I'll let you know when we're
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close when it's time. So again to bed I enter into a state that is not that that kind of
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theta state in between wakefulness and sleep and I go on this journey of my grandfather came. I was
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in this ballroom and I was looking down I was above I was looking down yet I was also a part of it
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and the relatives knew there were relatives there were old friends there were ancestors yet they
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were all in their youthful form they didn't look old and they knew that I was there and I was amongst
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them as I was existing and they were all dressed in these ball gowns and the men were dressed and
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no one had feet. I noticed that they were all hovering no one had any feet and at some point
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the room parted and there was like an aisle was formed up the middle so they started to part an
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aisle was formed up the middle and I could feel my grandfather and another presence going up and
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there were two other presences with my grandfather and then as they walked or they sauntered or they
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moved up it was like walking up this aisle up to a platform and as they got up one of these angels
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I'm going to call this an angelic presence it was an imprint of there was an angelic presence there
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with my grandfather and as this reaching down there was a sense of my grandfather was there
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and there's this angelic presence right with him that reached down for my grandmother
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and I heard the words get up now and as soon as I heard that I shot up in the bed I looked around
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for half a second the hospice nurse had fallen asleep my aunt was laying in the bed next to me
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she was asleep I looked at my grandmother her eyes were wide open and she was taking her last breath
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okay so there was that that's part one yeah that's super interesting so so this this presence is
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reaching down and my grandfather is right there this angelic presence reaches down my grandfather
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right there when she crosses over I had my experience in 2015 in 2018 in March no that's not true
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not 2018 a year and a half ago my dad passed on March 18 so 2022 2022 my dad he was at home and we
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had hospice care at home there was a nurse at home and we and the family was there the day that he
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passed we were in and out of the room and when he passed we all went in the room my mom's head was on
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his chest he took his final breath and I could feel him above the room I could feel him and oh
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in the morning of the day that he passed he was pointing up to the left at the corner and then as
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the day went on shortly before he passed he started reaching not just pointing you know he was pointing
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I would say daddy they're here to welcome you because he would point and then he would jolt back
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in his body like he would go out and point and look at us and then he would come back to his body
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so as the day went on and he started reaching towards the corner that's what happened there
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and when he when he transitioned and when he passed and my mom's head was on his chest I felt
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him above us and I knew from my own experience what that what that experience is to be out of the
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body above the body to be able to hear everything that's going on so I entered into this space I
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had us all hold hands we were all holding hands around his body and I could feel him with him
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it was distinctly his essence his his imprint energetically looking down at us and I said daddy
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we know that you can hear us you can see us we're all going to take care of each other you know and
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really talking to him because they they can you can hear in that state and also the your soul's
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going to go off to soul school do its thing and we'll be here if and when you want to come back
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and communicate with us and for me what that that circle of love the reaching down for my grandmother
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and then my dad reaching up it completed the circle to have the experience from the other side
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reaching down waiting to welcome my grandmother and then on this side physically having my dad
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reaching up it was like this completion of what occurs for us and what's what's possible when
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we're with our loved ones to send them off because they're welcomed into love we're all welcomed back
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into the state of love you know we're not taught what to do when somebody dies yeah yeah or how did
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how to react how I think that was beautiful what you guys did thank you yeah I know there are people
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out there with a title of a death doula I haven't had any of them on the show yet but maybe one of
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these days a few months ago we did have a hospice nurse on nurse Hadley she was awesome you might
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want to go back and listen to her and yeah some of the experiences sacred experiences I'll call
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them when people are passing over to the other side yeah it's a portal it's this sacred I mean
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it's this leaving your breathing form and existing they're still here with us you're just
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existing in another realm right and I have done my level one death doula training and I've studied
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I did some studying with William Peters who has something which you might want to look into the
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shared crossing project I have I have seen it I haven't really studied it or talked to him yet
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so you've had some of this training what are some of the things that you do as a death doula
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be fully present with and holding a safe space for the family to grieve to sit with the loved ones
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because a lot of times especially in our culture people don't want to talk about it the family
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doesn't want to talk about it to the person who's passing the person who's passing knows what's going
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on but it's like an unspoken kind of something that's hanging it's like the unspoken elephant in
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the room right so to sit with a person before they pass like is there talking with them about
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forgiveness or there is there anything that they want to share or if they're able to speak and share
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right at that point is it do they feel they have any unfinished business how can you facilitate
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conversations you develop trust with the family if the person is unresponsive sitting with them
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holding hands hearing is the last sense to go so talking with that person because you know I know
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in the case of my daddy at alzheimer's and dementia and the body is doing what it's doing
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physiologically neurologically biologically the spirit the soul essence is pure and in an imperfection
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so the soul is still experiencing the purity of does that make sense like the body might not be
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like your loved one is still there the essence of who they truly are is still there and talking to the
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person and it depends again on what state they're in so any advice for someone who may be going
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through that soon with a loved one as far as the loved one who has a loved one who's going to pass
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yeah I would say to be in the heart out of the mind into the heart there's an opportunity to
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to kind of clear the air if you will so that soul can be freed and released without and the person
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could let go without feeling worried or attached or or guilty or whatever may arise to talk with
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the soul and to get really in touch with yourself you know it's okay we can grieve and be grateful
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for someone's presence at the same time we can show forgiveness this is where forgiveness comes in
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really connecting out of the mind into the heart returning to that love all right here's something
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I asked nearly everybody near the end of an interview and that is what is your fear level of death
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personally so I do not have a fear of death at all I trust that it will occur as it occurs and the
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timing will be what it is and I trust in the divine timing of that and as a human there's a lot I
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still want to experience like I don't want to have I'm not worried about it happening tomorrow yet
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I want to be here for a while as you said to come full circle to be a grandma to my grandbaby's
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are we gonna happen are your girls gonna listen to this if so I've got a message for them police
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needs to be a grandmother I'm not trying to rush it but yeah let's not rush it let's not rush it
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we have things to do and also service I want to remind people that service is the highest
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expression of that love that you can be is service service service kindness service yeah absolutely
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if you're ever having a really bad day go serve somebody else uh huh uh huh exactly hey any last
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thing you want to share with our listeners what was shared with me before we came on is to listen
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to your soul listen to the voice of the soul it knows the way and there's so many practices
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now that offer ways of connecting with the wisdom of your soul like for some people it might be
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what does that even mean right there's a lot of information now on the internet on podcasts
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such as this on youtube channels there's so much information now about accessing the voice of the
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soul yeah I think a lot of people are gonna hear that and say that sounds great I have no idea how
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to do that yeah look it up google it or get in touch with me yeah get in touch with me by the way
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police is at grounded illumination dot com yes did I get that right yes and there are easy practical
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concrete tips and tools to hear the wisdom of your soul it's it's it can be made very digestible
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and very pragmatic give me one then I'm gonna let you go okay so one way is is through the body
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listening and noticing where in your body you feel a yes and where in your body you feel a
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hell no and pay attention because your body is the vehicle through which the soul speaks to you
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and that that ties into intuition but is that helpful listen listen to listen to when you feel
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joyful and ease and excited where do you feel that in your body that's your yes and where you feel
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like heavy thud dense that's your no right and the voice of your soul is always connected with love
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and it's always connected with your internal yes perfect police thank you so much for being with us
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today oh bye everyone thank you so much for tuning in and for accessing the remembering of our soul
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and that there's nothing to fear in transitioning there really isn't we're welcomed into immense
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immense love and there's no judgment there's no judgment coming towards you from the other side
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thanks for sticking around on this podcast we've tried to be hyper-nitched into near-death
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experiences but there are also a lot of related types of experiences that go along with them
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so the question I'd like to pose for everybody today is I watch your thoughts on do we want to keep
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the show just like it has been or do we want to expand a little bit into some other areas that may
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be related just to give you some examples irons in their most recent newsletter mentioned that when
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they incorporated the organization's main focus was near-death and similar experiences so the question
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is what are some of these similar experiences now today we talked a little bit about shared death
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experiences that's one let me read you a few of the others that irons has here ob e or out of body
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experiences telepathy after death communication past life memory precognition remote viewing
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mystical experiences anomalous healing of self anomalous healing of others aura viewing encounter
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with non-material entities encounter with extraterrestrial beings environmental sensitivity
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exceptional talent kundalini awakenings lucid dreaming mediumship photokinesis oh there's a
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long list here synesthesia nearing death awareness personality changes terminal lucidity etc so my
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question for you is and I would love some feedback would you like us to spend more time talking about
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some of those things or stick with just near-death experiences and very very similar things or maybe
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a combination of the two maybe our main show that usually comes out monday evening is on ndes and we
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have bonus episodes from time to time on some of these other things so there's some thoughts again
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love to hear your feedback email eric that's eric at roundtripdeath.com and we will look at every
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single email I promise and and we appreciate your feedback so until then I wish you everything
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good that you're looking for in this life and the next
