This is synchronicity. This is synchronicity. This is synchronicity. Thiscriticity. My guest, Happy New Year. I'll tell you my guest is in a second. Happy New Year to you, 2019. If you're listening, and this is not the beginning of 2019. Sorry, it's 2019 now, and it's the beginning of it.

And it's great.

I hope everyone had a good holidays, whatever you celebrate, whatever you were doing.

If you don't celebrate, still hope you had a good time.

New Year's festivities, hopefully we're good for you.

I've had the stomach flu, which I get once every

never. I don't get these things, but kids, my friends, if you have kids, you know what I'm talking

about? If you don't have kids, you remember being a kid, you probably don't remember being sick

that much because it doesn't seem to affect kids in the same way it affects adults. When you get sick

as an adult, it sucks. it sucks balls it's not fun no fun stomach flu getting over that feeling

better uh but yeah i really though even despite that having a really good start one of the

unintentional benefits of a stomach flu i really do do mean this, really can find the silver lining

in anything, is that I've been eating nothing, not that I'm trying to lose weight, but there is

something to be said with a fast, where if you just really don't eat a lot of food, what it does

to your state of consciousness, And that's just a interesting

phenomenon. You get a little more lucid, a little more clear, and it's kind of pleasant in some

ways and kind of not pleasant in other ways. So I've been interested to see kind of the relationship

between that. But trust me, I'll be eating food again soon, hopefully, as soon as I can.

So my guest today, now we will get to the guest, Jack Carroll. Jack has been on the podcast,

I think a couple of times before we were talking about right after this that we want to do it

more regularly. I really, he's one of these people, just a genuine friend who, whenever I have

a conversation with, you know, I end up learning so much just

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