Hey everybody, I just wanted to tell you about a new podcast that I launched recently.

It's called This Podcast.

And if that's hard to find, you know, with such a commonly used words, it's title.

Just search my name.

Michael Gunger, G-U-N-G-O-R in the podcast app and it should pop right up.

Hopefully this is a podcast that is leading up to the release of my new book, which is also

called This, which by the way comes out April 16th and is available for pre-order now.

And in this podcast, we will pull apart and look at the stories we find most important

in our lives, those stories that cause us suffering until we can see under all of it.

There is always and only this.

After it's tackling ideas like, do we have free will, wondering if death is real or simply

indulging in esoteric analogies?

There's always going to be interesting music.

I hope that teaser has adequately convinced you to go subscribe to my new podcast, This,

and give it five stars on iTunes so that my dad can be proud of me.

About four or five hundred years before Jesus was walking around telling people that

they didn't have to worry about tomorrow.

There was a teacher wandering around southern Asia talking about that very thing.

His name was Sardartha Guatama.

Unlike Jesus who was born as a poor refugee to a teen aged unwed mother, Sardartha was

born into riches and power.

In his palace he was sheltered from the harsh outside world from his exceedingly protective

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