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This is undaunted life a man's podcast. I'm your host Kyle Thompson. Let's get into it.

All right, Stephen Pressfield, welcome back to the show.

Now, I would do my normal intro, outro, where I would say, hey, here's this guy, and here's the books he's written, here's the stuff he's done. But this is technically your fourth appearance on the show. It's not technically. It's literally your fourth appearance on the show. Is it really? But here we are. This is episode like 920 something.

You were last on episode 333.

Wow. So where you've been hiding? I don't know what's been going on. Why don't you want to come and hang out with me anymore? I don't know. What happened? I'm sorry I missed you. No, it's all good. We won't let that happen again. It will not happen again.

You're a very prolific writer. You're very busy. But on a little bit of a sour note to start off with, but there is something that I wanted to talk to you about. You've talked about it openly

because I think it might be helpful for the people in my audience. But you actually lost your

house, unfortunately, last year in those fires that

hit the state of California. We now know that it was an arsonist that started that fire, and it led to

just thousands of homes being damaged or totally taken away, just billions of dollars worth of

damage and all of that. And unfortunately, you lost your home

that you lived in for a very, very long time because of the wildfires there. So I just want to

kind of give you a chance to talk a little bit about that because you've been Spartan about the

whole ordeal, which shouldn't be a shock to anyone that reads your writings or is a fan

of your work. But my gosh, that's just something most of us have never had to walk through.

And so just want to talk about your experience and being about a year removed from,

from having to start that process, what, what it's been like for you.

You know, it's been, it's been a lot harder than i thought it would be kyle you know i thought

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