La La La, La, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, friends, and welcome to the show. I am actually in northern Wisconsin right now at my retreat. I'm actually in my buddy's house.

And if you're watching visually, it looks weird because behind me on the wall of my buddy's house

in this room where I'm recording is not a deer, which would be appropriate for the environment here,

but an African, what, kudu or something like that?

So I ought to have them change that.

So it looks like I'm in the North Woods, which is where I'm at.

Anyway, glad you'd join me today.

And thank you for being part of the show.

I have some interesting things to share with you as we start out before we get your calls.

And you're welcome to call in if you'd like

and then we chat with you I don't know if you're listening live through live streaming or whatever

normally I take our calls now but I want to bring you up to date it's about something that's

been happening at Stand a Reason for the last couple of months that you don't know about, except for some of you may have discovered it yesterday.

And that has to do with a special podcast that I was part of a few weeks ago, and that actually dropped yesterday.

In other words, it aired so that if anybody wanted to watch it, they're welcome to do so. And this whole enterprise started

actually late June, or maybe it was mid-June. I was here up in Wisconsin when the opportunity

came down, and I was contacted, or the team was contacted by an organization called the Diary of a CEO.

Now, that's the name of the podcast.

And frankly, I'd never heard of it before.

Or Stephen Bartlett, who is the host for the show.

But they asked if I'd be willing to come on with a panel and discuss for a few hours the issue of meaning and significance in life

because there were lots of statistics that were cited on the show and that Stephen was

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