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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic, something that can help you live up to those four

Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom, and temperance. And here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we reflect, we prepare, we think deeply about the challenging issues of our time. And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not rushing to worker to get the kids to school.

We have the time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals and to prepare for what the future will bring.

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Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Still a podcast. I don't know if you remember what happened on October 7, 2016, but that date is seared into the memory of my next guest.

The person that I talked to on the podcast this week is someone I've gotten to know over the last three plus years, someone who I would not have expected I would get to know someone I would have not expected to have a friendship with.

Certainly when I was sitting down and writing my books, not someone I thought that I was writing for, but that's the direction that life takes us and specifically it took me and it's been an eye opening friendship for me.

It's been a sort of a humbling and an educational one for me. And it's just, you know, one I think is sort of emblematic of our times. And so the person I'm talking about, I'm talking about Billy Bush.

If you don't remember what happened on October 7, 2016, that is the day that the access Hollywood tape of Donald Trump, you know, sort of infamously and alarmingly talking about grabbing women by the pussy and all the other disturbing sort of gross things that were recorded on that bus while filming a segment for access Hollywood for which Billy Bush was the host.

And we don't need to get into the politics of it. I don't think we need to get into whether those remarks qualify or disqualify someone for president.

I think we can all decide that individually. What I'm interested in, I think this is very much a non-political episode. I'm interested in how does it feel to have a single event define your life.

How does it feel to have something that you'd utterly forgotten about that had happened years and years earlier that by the way you were not the sort of primary guilty party for come back and utterly up end your life as I say to Billy, you know, a lot of people are interested in what happened on that bus.

But, you know, I'm interested in the fact that basically Billy Bush got hit by the bus. And I'm interested in that not just because it's human and it's real and it deals with the intersection of technology and culture and so much of what's going on in our world right now, but because of the journey that that put Billy Bush on specifically to stoicism.

You know, if you read the Daily Stoic, you read the obstacle is the way he's done a number of the challenges now that we've done with Daily Stoic.

And he and I have had a number of discussions about stoicism since. And so when we talk about stoicism as being this philosophy for life, you know, we're not just talking about James Stockdale in a prison camp and we're not just talking about, you know, university professors, we're talking about real people who find themselves in incredible surreal,

real life altering situations and we're looking at how one survives that, how one picks up the pieces of their life. Again, even if you think that Billy Bush is totally guilty that he made a huge mistake that he was as complicit and what happened as Trump was, which I don't agree with at all.

But even if you think that do you think that he deserves the career death penalty, you know, do you think that he should be driven to despair and despondency to the point where, you know, he contemplated suicide as as I happen to know Billy did.

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