CTP (20260506 S3EMaySpecial1) Daniel Lugo Health Issues Discussion BTS/SP Video

Joseph M. Lenard

CTP (S3EMaySpecial1) Living With Crohn’s (or other) Disease Exploring more of the fascinating intersection of Activism, Community Engagement, Faith / Religion, Human Nature, Politics, Social Issues, and beyond    We talk with Daniel Lugo about the first signs that led to a Crohn’s disease diagnosis and what it takes to live with a chronic digestive illness day after day. We also dig into resilience, faith, and how writing a book can turn pain into purpose without pretending the struggle is easy.  • noticing early warning signs like blood in stool and taking them seriously  • facing the fear of “Crohn’s or colon cancer” and getting clarity through colonoscopy  • understanding Crohn’s disease vs ulcerative colitis and why Crohn’s can affect the whole digestive tract  • managing chronic illness with daily medication and long-term planning  • enduring multiple surgeries and protecting your mindset through setbacks  • treating hardship as a teacher and choosing a more grateful perspective  • leaning on faith when life feels unstable  • writing a book as therapy plus practical publishing lessons like deadlines and protecting your title  I would like to invite those that you know like what I have to say to follow me on social media, uh like I said, the Lugo official  SEND US FEEDBACK: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2210487/fan_mail/new  https://tinyurl.com/SubscribeToCTP   CTP Audios: https://tinyurl.com/CTPonBuzzsprout  CTP Videos: https://tinyurl.com/CTPonBITCHUTE  https://tinyurl.com/CTPgear   https://tinyurl.com/JLenardDetroitGear

Transcript

00:00Hello, welcome to another episode of Perstitutionalist Podcast.

00:06I am your host, Joseph M. Leonard.

00:09That's L-E-N-A-R-D.

00:12It looks French.

00:13It's not.

00:14It's Leonard without an O.

00:17Thank you for tuning in, as Graham Norton used to say, on his show.

00:24Let's get on with the show!

00:25Going to join me today, I should have double-checked the pronunciation before I hit record, Daniel,

00:36Daniel, well that part's right, easy, Lugo?

00:41Lugo?

00:43You were right the first time, Lugo.

00:45Lugo, okay.

00:48It reminds me of, I'm here in Detroit, the old Faygo pop commercials.

00:54Which way did he go?

00:55He went for Faygo.

00:57Well, which way did he go?

00:59He went for Lugo.

01:03Daniel Lugo is going to join me to talk about Crohn's disease and other things, as I had

01:10told him about coming on the show.

01:13In February of 2025, I did a couple of health weeks.

01:19I had people on before that and people on since, not as a special defined week, talking different

01:27health-related things.

01:29But I don't know anything about Crohn's disease, so I think it's time I get educated.

01:38And perhaps you in the audience, I know a little more about Parkinson's, not to try to equate

01:45anything, because I don't know.

01:47I only mentioned Parkinson's because we had a friend of my sister's live with us for a

01:53while that had it.

01:54And next time I'm at the doctor, I've got to be started to check, because I'm getting uncontrolled

02:01shakes on occasion in my right extremity.

02:06So it's like...

02:08But anyway, welcome to the show, Daniel Lugo.

02:13Thank you, Joseph, for having me on.

02:15It's a great pleasure to talk about my experience with Crohn's and anything that you want to

02:20know.

02:21Before we get to that, let's do the usual, you know, where were you born and raised?

02:28Where are you now?

02:29I know, because you told me before I hit record, but where are you now?

02:34You know, places you may have been, you know, between birth and now and whatnot, those sorts

02:40of nitty gritty.

02:41How much time and for what did you spend in prison?

02:47And for the benefit of the transcript, he's laughing.

02:51He knows it's a joke.

02:52But go ahead, Daniel.

02:55Okay, so I was born in a city called Maracaibo, Venezuela.

02:59It's been recently on the news.

03:02Yeah, you don't say.

03:04A little bit of excitement down there.

03:08Yeah, it's a lot of excitement from my end.

03:11But I am in Houston now.

03:13And I've been living the Houston area for a while.

03:20I just hate traffic coming in, trying to get here on time.

03:24Yeah, that's why I moved the podcast to be a little bit later, because I knew I was going

03:28to hit traffic.

03:28So I'm glad that we got the chance to be here together.

03:33And yeah, that's a little bit of my story on my end of, you know, my experience coming

03:39out of another country and having a different culture.

03:42Yeah.

03:43What year did you come from Venezuela?

03:472016.

03:47Okay, so that was still post-Chavez-Maduro era, right?

03:56Yeah, it was post-Chavez and Maduro.

04:00It was three years after Maduro took power, because it was Maduro took power in March 2013.

04:09And before the rigged re-election that he lost, that he refused to then give up power.

04:18They lost all of them, in my thinking.

04:21That's usually what happens with communist dictatorial regimes.

04:27They rigged every election.

04:29But yet we have Americans, of course, talk about election denial like crazy here.

04:34And, you know, when you get shenanigans, go on here, because we don't want our elections

04:41to turn into what they are in the Soviet Union or Venezuela or Cuba or Iran or China.

04:52You know, the podcast is not about politics, but I just want to say something that I think

04:57the people will want to hear.

05:00Be glad that you have a vote.

05:03Vote.

05:03You have a voice.

05:05Vote.

05:06That's all you have to do.

05:08That's everything that you need to do and everything you need.

05:11Like, for me, if in 1998 people would have voted, I don't think Chavez would have been in power.

05:19Be glad that you have an American system that has worked.

05:24But in 200, almost 50 years, the country has done amazingly.

05:30And there are countries that are below that have gone for centuries, being there, millenniums.

05:37So it is, be glad that you have a country.

05:40I'm glad that I am an American, that I'm here.

05:43I'm happy that, you know, I have my Venezuelan roots, but I'm happy that I am an American too.

05:49So I know this podcast is not about politics, but I just want other people to know that,

05:54you know, be glad that you have a system that works.

05:56Yeah.

05:57Yeah.

05:57You need to teach me a one or two Venezuelan things, which then wouldn't be cultural appropriation.

06:04It's called the great melting pot here in America for a reason.

06:08We are the most diverse and inclusive nation this planet has ever seen.

06:16And you say this, this particular episode isn't necessarily supposed to be about politics.

06:23But yeah, I do politics here all the time.

06:26Christitutionalist is all about biblical community versus worldly communism.

06:33A big difference.

06:35Whoops.

06:36Can you hear the alarm going off to remind me to make sure if I didn't start the Zoom room

06:41by now to start it,

06:43so I wouldn't be late since we're both a little early.

06:48I always like to come in early because otherwise I'll get involved in something else,

06:54get distracted and forget.

06:56And then if I don't set the alarm, it's like, uh-oh, at any rate.

07:03So, indeed, tell us a little bit about the journey Crohn just put you on.

07:11What?

07:11Yeah, I mean, I don't know anything more about it than the TV commercials peddling drugs for it.

07:19That's all I know.

07:21So, fill me and the viewers in.

07:26So, I want to start from the Birmingham.

07:30When I started to have some issues, some symptoms, and with it, I was seeing blood in the stool.

07:38Oh.

07:40So, we knew something was wrong.

07:42So, at first, I thought, you know, this might be, you know, just today and then tomorrow it's going to

07:48get fixed,

07:49but it didn't get fixed.

07:50Hey, everybody occasionally has hemorrhoids act up, right?

07:54Even at a young age, that can happen.

07:56But when it's happening more and more and more, and it's happening on a regular basis,

08:02you know you got to get checked.

08:05Yeah, and if I were to fix something, that would be, I would get checked earlier than I did.

08:11But the doctor, when I went to, he said, you probably have two things.

08:17Either you have Crohn's disease or you have colon cancer.

08:22And I was like, on the one hand, I don't know anything about Crohn's, right?

08:29Crohn's disease, it sounds scary, but I don't know anything about it.

08:32You were in the same boat I still am.

08:35You don't know anything, yeah.

08:38Then I had, on the other hand, I had colon cancer, and the word cancer is already big enough.

08:43So, I was like, oh, my God.

08:46I went after that.

08:48I couldn't, you know, think of what's going to be in my life.

08:51It's like, it's either or.

08:53It's not that I'm going to have none.

08:54It's either or.

08:56And then in the end, it turned out after doing a colonoscopy, it turns out that I had Crohn's disease.

09:02And for those of you that don't know what Crohn's disease is, it's a disease in the colon and in

09:08the digestive system.

09:10So, there are two.

09:12There is your tentative colitis that is just in the colon.

09:17And then Crohn's disease, it goes from your mouth to your colon.

09:21Oh, wow.

09:23All the way through the system, huh?

09:25Yeah.

09:25So, the whole digestive system is affected by Crohn's.

09:30And it changed my life a whole lot.

09:33And it has taken me on a journey, I don't forget a lot of hardships.

09:39But now I'm clear and I want to express my message to those that are recently diagnosed with Crohn's, those

09:46that are currently living with Crohn's, and to being aware to something that is becoming more common in today's society

09:54that people don't know about.

09:56So, you said you're clear.

10:00So, like cancer, it can be treated and go in remission?

10:06No, right now I'm not in remission.

10:09I am, what I mean by clear is that I have a clear mind, a clear experience.

10:14Oh, okay.

10:16I'm still living with Crohn's disease.

10:18I have a medicine for it.

10:20I take it each day.

10:22So, I don't know if you have seen every book.

10:25That's my medicine.

10:27So, it has been a journey because they couldn't figure out what exactly it was.

10:33So, in the diagnosis, they had Crohn's disease and you started to collide.

10:37So, they had both.

10:38I said to myself, bingo.

10:40I was like, it's not one, it's two of them.

10:43So, okay.

10:44And then they decided to try one medicine.

10:48It worked for a while.

10:50I had to go through another surgery.

10:53So, in total, eight surgeries I had to go through.

10:57Without counting the minor surgeries.

10:59In a way, cancer is almost like chemo and done.

11:05But this has been multiple surgery journey, huh?

11:11Yeah, it is a multiple surgery journey.

11:16But I take my hat off to those that are going through cancer.

11:20Because the chemo is actually something that is ruining your body.

11:26Because the medicine is so strong.

11:29I didn't choose the hairdo.

11:31The hairdo or the lack thereof chose me.

11:33I had leukemia, blood cancer in 2010.

11:38I'm in remission.

11:39But, yeah.

11:40The chemo and everything caused the hair to come out.

11:43So, I keep it shaved now.

11:45But, yeah.

11:46And even after the drugs, then for a period of several weeks, they put me through arsenic treatment.

11:55Arsenic, which is another poison.

11:58But little bits of poison to kill other poisonous cells.

12:04And you hope it doesn't kill the patient.

12:07And in my case, I was lucky it didn't kill me.

12:11It made me better.

12:12So, you're on a drug.

12:15You'll need to be on it the rest of your life, then?

12:20I would probably guess so.

12:22It's more of what the doctor decides to do.

12:26I don't want to risk it.

12:27Like I said, I've gone through eight surgeries.

12:30So, I don't want any more.

12:32Even though if I go through one more, it's like one more, one less.

12:35You know, but, you know, I want to finish it here.

12:38I'm currently writing my book, talking about all my story, everything, every single detail.

12:44I'm working on finishing the book and publishing it.

12:47I will let you know once I release it.

12:50So, I'll have to have you back later.

12:53Yeah.

12:54For sure.

12:55I will welcome the opportunity anytime.

12:56But I don't, I'm sure you will take this in the spirit it's intended.

13:04It's a good thing you had it at a younger age, though, than an older age.

13:12Like with me, if the cancer would have come, you know, 10 years later, or if it were a cancer

13:20that would have required surgery with my other health issues.

13:25So many surgeries have become fairly routine, but there's no such thing as a guarantee.

13:32Any surgery of any kind that you go under anesthetic is a risky surgery.

13:40You may not come out of it.

13:42So, when your body is younger and you're more youthful, able to handle it and to recover after a surgery,

13:51that's not a, it's a small blessing.

13:56It's certainly not a, it'd be a great blessing to not have it, but it's a small blessing that you

14:02had it at young age and you're able to bounce back a little more.

14:08I think you understand what I'm saying, yes?

14:10Yes, but the point I will argue, even though it was a struggle, I will say that it was a

14:17blessing in disguise.

14:19Because I wouldn't be doing this podcast with you right now if I didn't go through it.

14:26If I wouldn't be writing my book.

14:28Well, maybe not.

14:30I'd love to, would have talked to you anyway, probably because of what's going on in Venezuela.

14:35So, but yeah, I understand what you're saying.

14:39Yes.

14:40So, I will tell to people, it's like, if you're going through something hard right now, just know that it's

14:46a blessing in disguise.

14:48So, there's a saying that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

14:54Yes.

14:54So, I agree with that.

14:56Yes.

14:56So, everything, you know, there's, you can learn so many things from going through hardships.

15:01I learned so many things that people ask me, if you could go back, I don't do.

15:09Everything that could happen, that did happen.

15:12I would say no, because I'm better right now than I was before.

15:16Yeah.

15:17Yeah.

15:18I hear you.

15:19Like my book, my latest book, you can see in the video behind the scenes, if you're looking there, swirling

15:27around in the background here called Complicated Life and Living.

15:31Indeed, life is complex.

15:34And we're not promised the old Lynn Anderson song.

15:38I never promised you a rose garden.

15:40The world is a rough place.

15:43And I forget if it's the book of Kennedy Project Carpe Diem or a short story, a lasting legacy that

15:51I indeed refer to that line as you did.

15:55What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

15:59Indeed, that may not make you happy, but it makes you stronger.

16:07I will say to people, if you keep living the same life, you will be the same person, right?

16:16But when you go down, you have the possibility of going back stronger.

16:20Okay.

16:21There are some people that when they go down, they really go down.

16:26And there's no turning back.

16:29But at a time, yeah, other times you almost need a rock bottom.

16:35To then launch, as you're implying, like a rocket to a new, better, best life.

16:43Yes?

16:45I believe God put me through that because he knew that I will get through it.

16:50And I will say to people, God puts you there because, you know, you can do it.

16:55He knows that you can.

16:56And he knows that faith gets tested in the wrong times.

17:02In the bad times, faith is tested.

17:04Not in the good times.

17:06Because it's easy to have faith in the good times.

17:09Yeah.

17:10But it's hard to have faith in the hard times.

17:12Yeah.

17:13So, he goes through that with every single one of us.

17:16You went through leukemia.

17:17I went through Crohn's disease.

17:18Yeah.

17:18And every single person is different.

17:20So, my blessing in disguise was having Crohn's disease.

17:23I wouldn't be as close as I am to my sister.

17:27I earned friends.

17:29Of course, I've lost friends.

17:31That's okay.

17:32That's life.

17:33But life, like you said, is complex.

17:35And the more we realize that it's not on us.

17:40You know, there's so much that we can do.

17:43Like, there's people that wait for God to send them the perfect job.

17:47God will put you in an opportunity.

17:49But you have to work yourself to get there.

17:53Yeah.

17:53And he will put you.

17:54He will work with you every single step of the way until you're ready.

17:57And he will present the opportunity.

17:59Yeah.

17:59That's why.

18:00Not before when you're not ready.

18:03Right.

18:03It's like the Longfellow.

18:05And I quote Longfellow in a few of my books.

18:09In four, I've got Complicated is now the fourth in my life and living series of books.

18:16In two of them, I think I directly quote Longfellow in his Rainy Day poem.

18:24In every life, a little rain, both literal and figurative, is going to fall.

18:31As you said, there's going to be ups and downs and understanding.

18:38And all four books in the life and living series talk about that.

18:42It's how we react to it.

18:45Right.

18:45It's like the old Chumba Wumba song.

18:48Right.

18:48I get knocked down, but I get up again.

18:52Right.

18:53It's whether you.

18:54Oh, you don't know that song.

18:56Oh, it's an old 80s or is it a 90s song from some Australian band?

19:01Yeah.

19:02Chumba Wumba.

19:04I forget what the song's titled.

19:07Everybody calls it.

19:08I get knocked down, but I don't think that's the title.

19:11Because that's the line.

19:12I get knocked down, but I get up again.

19:15No, you're never going to keep me down.

19:17It's like a good positive attitude song, really.

19:21Right.

19:22Shit happens.

19:23Sorry for the language, folks, but indeed shit happens.

19:28It's how we.

19:30It's like in also my CTP three and four books.

19:36Anger is a normal human emotion.

19:39It's not a sin like hubris is.

19:43Anger is going to happen on occasion.

19:47We're going to get upset.

19:48But how do we react to it?

19:52How do we channel that anger?

19:54Right.

19:55Like you and the crones.

19:57How do you channel that challenge to then spin something good out of it?

20:05Yes.

20:07No.

20:08And I will say it here.

20:09And I'm thinking of it once you were talking.

20:11Like when you plant a seed, you need rain.

20:18Yep.

20:19You need rain and sunlight.

20:21So it's both ways.

20:23You need balance, right?

20:24There's balance.

20:26You need balance.

20:26Yep.

20:27If you have too much water, the plant dies.

20:32That's even true with humans.

20:34People have died.

20:37People are stupid.

20:39People don't just die of alcohol poisoning.

20:42People have literally the idiotic jug water challenges.

20:47You can drink too much water too quickly, which thins out your blood and means the oxygen level is thrown

20:58off.

20:58And you can actually die of asphyxiation due to too much water.

21:04So, yeah, too much water bad, not enough water bad.

21:09You need a balance.

21:11You need some good.

21:12And, yeah, you can't appreciate the positive days if you don't have the bad days to compare them to, right?

21:20If you have all good and coast through life and never had any challenges, you're not – you weren't battle

21:32-hardened.

21:33You were – you're soft, yes?

21:39No, and then I wouldn't think that in this life you would be as strong as you are and I

21:46would be as strong as I am if we didn't go through the hard times, the rain, right?

21:53Because, like you said, you only see the positive once you see a negative.

21:58Yep.

21:58We are so used to looking at only the negative that we forget about the positive.

22:05So, for example, we look through life and you have to take for granted that you wake up.

22:13There are people that die in this week.

22:17So, looking at that and being – knowing those little things that are positive will make your life a lot

22:24more happier.

22:26And once you take into yourself that you will go through hard times.

22:31And I know this will not be my only hard times.

22:34Right.

22:35You know, once I'm done with this one, I know there's another one coming.

22:41You're sensible, reasonable, understand.

22:45Again, human nature, the human condition.

22:49This is a fallen world.

22:51We're hoping to go to a better place eventually.

22:55But I grabbed behind my green screen while you were talking a couple of memes.

23:00This one here says, you have to train your mind to be stronger than your feelings or else you will

23:08lose yourself.

23:10From Proverbs.

23:12And another one is not from the Bible, but it's very biblical-like.

23:18Life is so ironic, as we were talking.

23:22It takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to value presence.

23:33Isn't that profound?

23:36No, that's the way to go.

23:38I would agree.

23:40Thinking of, like, there's only positive in life, that's wrong.

23:44That's wrong.

23:44Because even when you think about it, there's a lot of wrong things in this world.

23:49But you can be the positive.

23:51You can be the light in the world.

23:54And that is what Jesus said.

23:55You at least can try.

23:58You may not succeed.

24:00But I have other memes, too.

24:04You've said it.

24:06Planting seeds.

24:08Like I talk in my Life and Living series books.

24:12Planting seeds of good.

24:14Sow the seeds of good.

24:16And leave it for God.

24:19It's then God's job to water and nurture those seeds that you plant in others to hopefully make them grow

24:28into better people.

24:33I completely agree.

24:35And then, like you said, we are planting the seed in other people.

24:40And that's what we're doing in this podcast.

24:42We're planting a seed.

24:44And then, once they see it and think, oh, well, what I'm going through.

24:51And I said it to myself.

24:53I had to go through an iron infusion.

24:56And then, once I was saying a name, they asked me for my name.

25:00And the reason I was there, I put my name.

25:02Daniel Lugo.

25:03And then, for the reason I was there, I was iron infusion.

25:06But I look at the people before me.

25:08And they all wear chemotherapy.

25:13And I was like, I'm going through nothing compared to that.

25:19Yeah.

25:20And they may look at you and think otherwise.

25:22But, yeah.

25:23It's because, like I said, like with chemo, with me, it was a period of two months.

25:31And then, it's either you're in remission or make your cemetery plans, right?

25:39Whereas, yours is dragged out a lot more with eight surgeries.

25:45I don't say that to be morbid.

25:48I say that to be a realist, right?

25:51We all began dying the day we were born.

25:57Some of us just lined up in the ground quicker.

26:01Like, my mother's brother died the day after birth.

26:07I mean, he had no chance of living any life.

26:11So, we're not promised a short or long period, which is a key theme in a short story, a lasting

26:22legacy.

26:22It's actually a novelette.

26:24But, the short story part is Ryan's life is cut shorter than the general expected life expectancies of our time.

26:36I didn't bring you on to promote only my books, but I'm going to mention another one.

26:43In my How to Write a Book and Get It Published, Hints, Tips, and Techniques, I say don't ever give

26:51away your title.

26:52So, don't give away your title, but you should have a working title that won't be the title that you

27:01can kind of say what the book's about and it's the name of the project.

27:06Do you have a working title for your book?

27:09Yes, I do.

27:10And I like it so much I think it's going to be the title.

27:13Oh, I don't know if you should give it then, but share if you want to.

27:20I found it because it's, let me put it this way, I'm not going to give it away since that's

27:27your tip to me.

27:29The general rule, somebody will steal it.

27:32Somebody will use AI, create a book real quick and throw it out before your book does.

27:37So, yeah, never give away your real, like complicated was the working title.

27:43It was Complexity, similar, but somewhat different, but related.

27:49So, I could talk about my book, Complexity, because that wasn't going to be the title.

27:55So, yeah, come up with another title that isn't going to be.

28:00Let me say it's close to the name of my podcast.

28:04Oh, okay.

28:05It's called Out of the Gray.

28:07The podcast is called Out of the Gray.

28:09So, that gives you some kind of leap of what the book is going to be like.

28:14I'm not going to give you the name.

28:15I'm pretty excited for the book.

28:17I like that.

28:18That's kind of a little play off of Out of the Blue, in a way.

28:26It's like, no, if I continue talking, I'm going to give it away.

28:30Oh, okay.

28:31Yeah, I don't want you to do that.

28:32I'm thinking of a way of not saying it, but if I continue on, I think I'm going to say

28:39it.

28:39It's going to slip out, yeah.

28:42Yeah.

28:42So, I think if I continue talking, I'm going to give it away.

28:46So, I'm going to stop it right here.

28:47Well, suffice to say, Out of the Gray is not about little gray aliens, right?

28:54That's sufficient to say.

28:57It goes along the lines of what we're talking about here.

29:01Yes.

29:02Our downs to our ups and how we go ups to our downs.

29:05Well, thank you, Daniel Lugo, for coming on.

29:10Now, do you have, like, my Terror Strikes Coming Soon to a Sitting Near You book?

29:15I used Terror Strikes.

29:18I could say that title because there's already thousands of books by that title, and the subtitle

29:26is what distinguishes it from others.

29:28So, I had my site, TerrorStrikes.info, months before the book was ever published, and as a

29:37matter of fact, you could go to TerrorStrikes.info slash status and see the stages I was going

29:44through, you know, design and development and cover art, blah, blah, blah.

29:50These are the stages the book's in until it came out.

29:54Do you have, like, an author site that isn't your book title, or do you have a website or

30:02your podcast?

30:03Does it have a website?

30:06As of now, I don't have a website for the podcast.

30:09You can follow me on DLugoOfficial on YouTube.

30:12That will lead you right to the videos I make and the podcasts I make, the same as for Instagram

30:18and TikTok.

30:21So, DLugoOfficial.

30:23So, that's where you can find me.

30:24I'm working on trying to get a website.

30:28And talking about it here, about the book, you just gave me an idea, and I had to write

30:32it down.

30:33Good.

30:33I had to write a book.

30:34Write it down for the book.

30:36I want to grab my notebook because I think I'm going to forget it.

30:39I'm going to forget it.

30:40Hey, hey, that's a hint, tip, or technique.

30:44Write things down or grab your smartphone.

30:49Email, dictate yourself an email and email it to yourself when you got the idea.

30:55That way, you can look back on it later because, indeed, otherwise, you may forget.

31:01So, we've discussed health.

31:04We've discussed writing and publishing.

31:07We've discussed...

31:08Any last thing you'd like to talk about as we wrap up?

31:14No, I think what I have to tell people is that don't focus on the bad things in life.

31:26You're selling my books.

31:29That's exactly my books.

31:32Focus on positives.

31:34Try to do positives.

31:36Stop focusing on the negatives.

31:38You're selling my books for me.

31:40Thank you so much, Daniel.

31:42You're not getting a commission, though.

31:48I have another analogy that I think people will like.

31:51You know, in math, once you multiply a positive by a negative, it becomes a negative.

31:58Right?

31:58It's not the other way around.

32:00That's good.

32:01You know what?

32:03I might steal that from my next book.

32:09I'm just doing that way, stop.

32:10Yeah, that's a good analogy.

32:12I like that.

32:13That's great.

32:14Yeah.

32:15You better trademark that real quick or I might steal it.

32:18Yeah.

32:21That's why I trademarked the title of my show.

32:27That's a great idea.

32:28I might have to because I'm burying out my ideas here.

32:33Well, ideas are not copyrightable.

32:37A term or a phrase is potentially trademarkable.

32:41But that's why there are so many books about similar things, but phrased differently.

32:49At any rate.

32:50I wrote my book from the start to the end.

32:54It is a process.

32:56It's not done.

32:58But, you know, I'm grateful for it.

33:01It was like a kind of therapy.

33:03I didn't go to a therapist when I went through my journey.

33:07But writing the book was an amazing experience.

33:12Yeah.

33:13And once, like I was saying, positive and negative, don't focus on the negative.

33:18Yeah.

33:18Because it doesn't work the way around.

33:20It's not like you multiply positive and negative and it becomes positive.

33:24No.

33:24It becomes a negative.

33:25Now you're helping sell my how to write a book and get it published book.

33:30Like you said, a book is never finished.

33:35It's never done.

33:36You have to set a deadline of, okay, it's going to have to be published.

33:41It's got to come out because you could take a hundred years writing and changing and updating

33:49and upgrading and fixing things that could be said better.

33:54It's never done.

33:56There has to come a point where you've got to say, it's close enough.

34:02Yes.

34:02I'm just trying to get it to the finish line.

34:04That's my point.

34:05I have an idea of the cover.

34:07Like I said, the title.

34:09So, and you just, in the conversation, you know, it came to me that, like the subtitle

34:14of the book and I was like, I have to write it.

34:16So good.

34:17So, I will expect a mention in your book.

34:25I will expect accreditation and attribution for that subtitle then.

34:31So, I'm kidding, of course.

34:33But, anyway, again, thank you, Daniel.

34:39I got to look again now.

34:42Lugo.

34:43So, I pronounce it right.

34:44Daniel Lugo.

34:45L-U-G-O.

34:47And, of course, in post-production, I'll put your name on the bottom in a text scrawl.

34:54So, those viewing on video will see your name scroll by the bottom of the screen or the top

35:02or wherever I'll end up putting it.

35:04And, yeah, let me know when the book's out so I can have you back.

35:11Of course.

35:12I will let you know once the book is done and released so that we can have another podcast

35:16in.

35:17I'm glad to be here.

35:18Thank you for the opportunity.

35:20I would like to invite those that, you know, like what I have to say to follow me on social

35:25media.

35:26Like I said, DLugoOfficial.

35:29You can tag me as well on the video so that I can.

35:31Yeah, watch out for that.

35:33Watch out for that DLugo Unofficial guy, right?

35:39You can tag me on the video so that we can collaborate and we can share the podcast as well.

35:44So, you know, I'm glad that I'm here.

35:46We have this opportunity for the people that are listening.

35:49The last message I have to say is be positive.

35:53Know that God is working for you, not against you.

35:56So, that's my last message that I would like to get across for the viewers.

36:00Right.

36:01And I normally wait until I have to record to say I don't know when this will release.

36:08Full disclosure, we're recording in January of 2025.

36:12It might come out February, March.

36:16It could be April.

36:17So, bear that in mind.

36:20We're recording in January.

36:22Do you have a target release date?

36:26Again, you should never set anything in stone or sign a contract until the book is done.

36:33But do you have a release date that you're aiming for?

36:39God willing, I'm aiming for my graduation, which is May the 10th.

36:44Oh, I like that.

36:49Not correlation or corresponding.

36:53I don't know what word I'm looking for.

36:56It's going to be...

36:57Coincide.

36:58That's the word I'm looking for.

37:01Coincides with it.

37:03So, I wanted to be...

37:05Because my birthday is on May 11th.

37:08So, I graduated the day before.

37:10So, I wanted for all to be a big weekend.

37:13Yeah.

37:13Oh, you should do one on the 10th, one on the 11th, and the other on the 12th.

37:18Make it a trifecta.

37:19Or maybe one in the 9th.

37:21Yeah.

37:229th, 10th, 11th, or 10th, 11th, 12th.

37:26Thank you again, Daniel.

37:28Have a great day.

37:30Take care.

37:30God bless.

37:32God bless you too.

37:45Wednesday, Wednesday, hump day.

37:50Geico Camel likes it his way.

37:53Spends his time at Burger King.

37:57They cater to the 10th, 12th.

37:59They cater to his thing.

38:01Halfway through the weekend.

38:04Though the clock keeps dragging.

38:08We'll sneak some fun in.

38:11And next hump day.

38:14And next hump day.

38:14Do it again.

38:17Wednesday, Wednesday, hump day.

38:20Geico Camel likes it his way.

38:24Spends his time at Burger King.

38:28They cater to his thing.

38:30Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm

38:32-mm-mm.

38:56So tired.

39:00Pissed off.

39:03Upset.

39:04Upset.

39:06Upset.

39:07So tired.

39:08So tired.

39:12So tired.

39:16So tired.

39:19So tired.

39:23So tired.

39:26So tired.

39:29Woo!

39:30So fucking tired.

39:34Woke up so again.

39:37Like I never slept.

39:41Bottle on the nightstand

39:43And a knot in my chest

39:47Small things turn heavy

39:49When the body says no

39:54Keys feel like bricks now

39:57Even crossing the room is slow

40:01And I hate this track

40:04How it pulls me under

40:07One more little task

40:11Feels like thunder

40:15I'm so tired

40:17I'm so tired

40:19Every day feels like Monday

40:22I'm so tired

40:24I'm so tired

40:26Even the easy things break me

40:29Oh!

40:35My patience is paper

40:38My strength is sand

40:41One more appointment

40:44One more hand in hand

40:48I'm mad at the mirror

40:52Mad at the floor

40:56Mad at the clock

40:58Oh!

41:00For asking for more

41:03And I hate this track

41:06How it pulls me under

41:09How it pulls me under

41:10One more little task

41:13Feels like thunder

41:17I'm so tired

41:19I'm so tired

41:20I'm so tired

41:21I'm so tired

41:22I'm so tired

41:22Every day feels like Monday

41:24I'm so tired

41:26I'm so tired

41:27I'm so tired

41:28I'm so tired

41:29Even the easy things break me

41:31Hey!

41:46No weekend in sight

41:49No off switch to find

41:52Just a long gray line

41:55Running through my mind

41:58If I snap, if I cry

42:01Let it fall

42:02Let it fall

42:03Let it show

42:04I am worn to the wire

42:08And everybody knows

42:12I'm so tired

42:14I'm so tired

42:16Every day feels like Monday

42:19I'm so tired

42:21I'm so tired

42:23Even the easy things break me

42:26So tired

42:27So tired

42:31One more step

42:34Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

42:36Then another

42:39Woo!

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