I'm I'm This is Monica Perez, and we are here with the ninth installment of our discussion of meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

We're on book 10.

We're going to have one more show after this. That's going to be books

11 and 12. And then we're going to have a conversation about it with, I'm super excited,

Daniel Natal, who was one of my, one of the shows that had the highest downloads listens as like any other show,

uh, people just love him. He's, because he's humorous. But he did a reading of meditations. A lot of

people, I did not know. Like, I'm so, such an autodidact or whatever or whatever like I don't know that everybody knows what they know or what they don't know I don't know what's common knowledge or I don't know I'm just I'm just a nerd so I liked it and I'm reading it and we're reading it together and then we're going to chat with Daniel.

Hi, Stella.

Yeah, so it is a holiday week.

I hate to date an evergreen show like this, but it's tomorrow's Christmas Eve and it is crazy here.

People are running around like nuts.

It's about to absolutely pour rain.

So people are batting down the hatches. And especially here, I think they might even have

an evacuation order up in my neighborhood where there are burn scars, they call them. But I happen to be a couple of houses, a couple of streets more elevated.

Like there's a street.

I don't understand why they didn't tell.

Like, they built a house at the bottom of the street.

But when you look at the street, it's just a straight like avenue straight up to the top of the mountain and on the

edges are ditches. That's like kind of common here. And I think I'm a great friend of the show,

Nacho Slave, who spent a lot of time in Waltzina, I think he's from Waltadina, said it's a lot

of drainage here. So that street, the mud just washes down that

street and it dumped right onto somebody's house last time. And I'm talking about like in this,

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