Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm Sam Fregoso.

Welcome to the show. Hey yo, yo, Hey everyone.

For the past six weeks from the confines of his home office in Texas, Matthew McConaughey has been on an international press tour for his new book.

He says the book is a love letter to life, about weathering the storm and making it out on the

other side.

McConaughey, to his credit, has had his fair share of trials and tribulations,

ups and downs, speed bumps, and roadblocks.

It's called Green Lights, a memoir that catalogs the first 50 years of his life.

To do so, he uses clues from his diaries, which he has impressively maintained for 35 years.

Now I will admit, I waited into green lights rather skeptically.

Maybe you will too.

A famous, staggeringly handsome and talented actor telling you and I how to live,

how to improve our conditions. How could his life possibly speak to ours? I don't know if it's his southern accent or his gift for storytelling, but about 30 minutes into the audiobook, my skepticism faded away. It impressed me by what it's not. It's not a

self-help book. It's not unrelentingly pretentious or self-serious. It's not

telling you how to live. It's telling you how he has lived.

That includes the missteps and the triumphs. He's had plenty of both. If we're lucky, that's true for each of us.

To fail is to be bold enough to strive for something more,

something different.

Two years ago, Matthew McConaughey searched for something different. decades. Two years ago he purchased a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote a book.

The story of his life thus far.

Two years later he's here with us to share some of that story.

I hope you enjoy it. Hello? Hello. Easy, easy, good morning, good afternoon.

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