When we speak on Wednesday evening,Senator Cory Bookeris seated.
He spoke for 25 hours 8 minutes, standing the entire time.
But my spirit is soaring.
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Translation: Is Booker wearing the data-tracking equipment beloved by the wellness and longevity community?
My Oura Ring is telling me to see a doctor, he jokes, confirming my suspicions.
It hasnt been this unhappy with me since I got COVID.
Then my heart rate just shot up and stayed up for a very long time, all over 100.
Im an intermittent faster, so my strategy was to stop eating on Friday and get myself into ketosis.
In many ways, he was the ancestor I was leaning on the most, he says.
My staff and I realized we had to do something different, we had to cause some trouble.
As a senator, I have the right to speech, so I decided to just keep speaking.
That was the origin of this.
Booker beat his record by less than an hour.
We were very clear: We just wanted to go for as long as I could go.
I physically knew I could do 10 hours or 15 hours.
So I didnt want to tell anybody but my staff, but I was going for that record.
Looking back on it, he calls it a journey.
Booker also hopes people will consider his filibuster a call to action.
I hope theres a momentum where one person will help one person and they will pass it on.
It sets a course of change beyond our expectations.
While the body has its limitations, theres no limit on the human spirit, he says.
