Next. Hi, just these thanks. Did you do cashback? Just need to check you're not a robot first. New security policy.

Okay. How many traffic lights can you see out the window? Oh, uh, two? No, that's wrong.

Right, well obviously I'm not a robot. That's what a robot would say. What a load of malarkey.

Smarty keeps things simple. Like 80 gigabytes for 10 pounds. And on a rolling monthly sim plan, you're free to leave any time. Less malarkey, more smarty. Search Smarty Mobile. If you're in traffic right now, look around. You'll see empty car seats. Nobody loves sitting in traffic. We don't. And neither do ASSO. Every filled passenger seat in this jam could mean one less car on the road.

And ESSO want to help with that.

Carpooling could mean less traffic.

Split fuel bills.

And new friends.

Oh, we're friends.

I added you on social media.

We don't have social media. We're bubbleheads.

Oh, I've got social media.

More journeys made together. That's thoughtful driving.

S.O.c.com.

Well, hey there. Howdy-Duty, fellow pre-Gaptan. That's my new greeting. Howdy-Duty fellow

progaptan. I promise I won't do that again. We're going to be talking to my friend Masimo

Pilucci today about a book that he released a little bit ago. I think last year, maybe it was 2025. I can't remember exactly, but it's called Beyond Stoicism. You'll hear more about it in the episode to come. Massimo is a really cool guy. Love chatting with him any opportunity I get to. And I think it will come through in this episode why I feel that way.

Very lucky to have gotten the chance to know him over the last few years. And though we don't

discuss it in the episode, I would like to draw your attention to his substack blog, which is called

Figs in Winter, which is a reference, if I'm not mistaken, to, God, I can never remember if it's

Seneca or Marcus who talked about wanting figs in winter being a very unnatural thing to do, because

that's not when figs bloom.

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