Hi, I'm Ben Sass, and I'm Chris Steyerwald.

And this is not dead yet. We're all dying, but only some of us have been brought face to face with that reality.

However long, each of us have to do it, though, we all want to live a good life.

One with meaning, love, and joy, and our guests are here to help us do exactly that.

All right, Professor, the guests, we are our own guests this week. We are, I am my own

grandpa, uh, as the, as the, as the, as the, as the song went.

We have been promising for a long time that we would do a mailbag episode and that we would do a little fan service here.

And we are going to make good on that.

We should explain the premise is that. And I want to just say that I am doing this under

half duress. I don't like to be wrong, but in the last four or five months, it turns out I'm,

I've always been wrong a lot, but now I'm more aware of how often I'm wrong. What? Explain.

My wife, as you know, struggles with seizures. So she often has

short-term memory issues. And so once upon a time, that was a sort of get out of jail free card.

If we had a conversation and we later remembered it differently, you could sort of pat her on the head and say,

well, you know, I don't think you had a seizure this week, but we couldn't dismiss the possibility

that you just don't remember the whole dang conversation. Now, the likelihood that I'm the one

misremembering the conversation is up exponentially. And so that's a place of error.

Erroneous on both counts, to quote Vince Vaughn, but you also have graded most of our

podcast super lazy, like college professors of the last 20 years. Everybody gets a participation

a slash a minus. And I've thought most of our episodes have been medium, like growable to good, but not great.

And the feedback is dang great.

So on that same vein of growing humility, I resisted a mailbag episode because I'm kind of bored by me and, you know, a third bored by you.

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