Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. It's not too often you get to talk to somebody who's not only made a difference in your life, but literally

in the lives of millions of people.

And that's another of them I guess today, Alex Hain, who is joining us all the way from, I believe,

the northern part of the country. we'll get into that in a second

but Alex has been a really good friend for no other reason that he's that he's just such a giving

generous individual.

It's so gracious and just a pleasure to get to know

and I've been watching him on YouTube

and not knowing that I was only one degree of separation

removed from you, Alex. And I want to thank you because today's my birthday and you agreed to come on the podcast as a special birthday present to me

Which has two different benefits one is that it's going to remind me not to eat too much cake because

your book Master of the Day has really has really changed my life. It's helped me to lose some weight. I

drop five pounds. I always weight I drop five pounds I always

say I drop five pounds from my double chin my stomach I dropped it all the way

down to my stomach you know I also I know now I'm within you know those last 10 pounds that are so stubborn as soon as they get

past the first 47 pounds then I'll be in that 10 pound zone but when I get there I'm going to look to you for advice because really you've you've

written such a wonderful book or an audio book and I listen to it and your voice is mellifluis and wonderful.

Thank you for being on the show, Alex.

Yeah, thanks for having to Brian and happy birthday.

Thank you so much.

Yeah, it's really such a treat to have you as a guest, as a birthday present to me.

And really reminded me, as I was thinking about it preparing and

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