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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes.

Something to help you live up to those four Stoke virtues of courage, justice, temperance and wisdom.

And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoke philosophers.

We explore at length how these Stoke ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time.

Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down. Be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring.

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And we use that as a springboard for conversation. And then at the end of the show we ask them for a word that they'll be happy never to hear again.

So that's three little words with me, John Bishop and Tony Pitts. Listen to it every Friday exclusively on Amazon Music.

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As you know, I used to live in New Orleans. I moved to New Orleans when I was writing my first book, Trust Me I'm Lying. It's crazy to me to think it came out exactly 10 years ago this month.

And this would have been right around at the time, sometime between 10 and 11 years ago, that I read one of the best books of narrative nonfiction that I've ever read.

Rising tide, the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America by John Embarry, which I read and totally changed how I saw New Orleans, so I saw the Mississippi River, which I did not know that much about being from California.

And I fell in love with New Orleans, I fell in love with the history of this part of the country. And most of all, it turned me on to Walker Percy and his kind of Southern stoicism turned me on to one of my all time favorite novels, which would be the movie go or which I recommend all the time.

And I don't know why I put off reading John's other book, especially because as someone pointed out, like in December or January of 2019 or 2020, I mentioned something about how in a pandemic could happen at any moment.

And one must be prepared for such thing as subsequent events would painfully remind us, I don't know why I never read the great influenza, the story of the deadliest pandemic in history, but I did read it in March 2020 in those early days of lockdown and was just fucking blown away.

It's an incredible book. If you read you could have consumed zero news over the last three years spent zero time talking about the pandemic, learning about the pandemic and just read this book and don't effectively exactly what to do.

All the mistakes policymakers would make all the mistakes people would make all the things to be worried about the things not to be worried about.

Basically everything you need to do you could have learned from this book, which brings up a quote from Harry Truman that I talk about in today's interview with John Barry.

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