Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast. I'm Martha Beck.

We're here. I'm breathing. This is all we need. So welcome, welcome. We've got enough people I'm going to jump into our subject matter. First of all, behold, the false

of the eyelash. You will not often see this, people. But the reason you see it today is that,

as I may have mentioned before, my book, The Way of Integrity, I sent it to Oprah. I try not to bother her with things, but she said,

sure, I'd love to see it. And then she wanted to do an Oprah Daily class with me. So we have to

film Oprah Daily Things. Now, if you've ever done TV advertising or TV production, you know it is the

single most hectic job on the face of the earth. Okay. Like the producer is everything. You have to get

all the objects. You have to get all the people. You have to get the words right. You have to get

the light, right. You have to get the makeup. Right. you have to do all this stuff. And if you know anything about the Oprah show, if you watched it

back when it was a thing, it was so beautifully produced. It took, somebody once told me they'd figured

out it took 37 hours of human effort for every minute of the Oprah show that ever ran.

And it ran every day, every weekday for 25 years.

Imagine the amount of human labor.

Anyway, when you, I got invited on the Oprah show, it was like, ah!

So then you start to hear from the producers.

Here's what they want.

They want video of you at every stage of your life, including your own birth.

They want still photos of you at every place you've ever loved to be.

They want pictures of you bouncing on the bed with your children.

They will send a photographer to videotape you bouncing on the bed with your children. They will send a photographer to videotape you bouncing on the bed with your children, which

is something you never actually do.

But I remember bouncing on the bed so hard with my children that we all became like seriously

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