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Just back from rescuing his wife from a wildfire Marcus Thompson

So I'm just trying to figure out like what kind of brownie points and how do I cash in the rescuing of my wife from the air pollution of the 8,000 wildfires in the bay. Like can I far lay this into something like you can't just be saving your wife without getting rewards you feel me?

Well well you really have to communicate what you're doing. I don't just do the dishes when When I'm doing it, I try to make it very obvious. I try to, hey, I'm doing the dishes, the dishes are being done.

So I should have pulled up like, yo, I'm rescuing your lungs right now. You're like,

Yo, this is saving you. And slung your wife over your shoulder. your

life over your shoulder like a marauding viking.

I think what you do, Marcus, is next time she sighs at you?

You say, wow, it doesn't sound like there's any smoke in that sigh.

Hey, man, your lungs are sounding pretty good, huh?

And you heard in that corner, it's Ethan Sherwood Strauss,

the host of the House of Strauss podcast

and the author of the book the

victory machine Ethan do we really buy that 30 million people watch the

d.

Wow yeah that that's quite.

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