All right, welcome back. My new book, Same As Ever, comes out in a month.

It's kind of the scary time as an author where it's done, it's printed, it's in the warehouse,

but no one's read it yet.

But I'm really excited for it.

I think it's the best writing that I've ever done,

and I had the most fun writing it than I have any other writing project that I've done.

And of course, same as ever is about things that never change, things in the world that have always been like they have been and will always be like that in the future.

All these little trends about how people behave and what we experience in life that we know for certain is going to be a part of our future.

And I started thinking about that topic, I don't know, six or seven years ago, mainly when

I was just kind of disgusted at how bad people were at predicting the future.

The next recession and the next bear market, whatever it would be.

And so I just started shifting towards, well what do we know is going to be part of our future?

We can't predict the change. We can't predict necessarily the new

technologies or who's going to win the presidency or when the next recession is

going to become. Nobody can do that. So why don't we spend our time focusing on

what we know is never going to change?

And that's what I want to talk about today. This episode is titled, Death, Taxes,

and a few other things. Of course, the guarantees in life that will apply to everybody.

And I've been thinking about these topics for a while.

Let's see I got three or four of them here today that I want to go through with you.

The things that we know no matter who you are or where you live or what your

background was or how your career plans out what do we know is going to be a part of

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