Hey, what's going on, guys. Welcome back to Jeremy Scott Finch podcast,

a radio show coming to you on this Saturday with an episode titled,

The American Life is Killing You.

And the original piece was written by Eric Rittenberry over at Medium.com.

I believe you can find it in the philosophy section.

And it's a powerful blog.

It's very well written.

It's a little bit lengthy for some of you, probably a 10 to 15 minute read, give or take.

And I'm going to kind of play today's podcast off of this.

Now, I read this a handful of weeks ago, and I thought about sharing it right away, but I'm like,

I'll just sit and, you know, marinate on it to see if it's something that I think all of you guys can get something from.

And I believe it is.

It echoes and parallels a lot of the things that I believe and say in the way that I live my life.

And maybe more importantly, the way that I've seen things change and evolve for us as Americans.

As I've gotten older, I've been able, you know, fortunate enough to travel the world and visit other countries who do things much differently than we do.

Some of the things we do are great and some of the things they do

are great. And I love America. Again, I'm not anti-America. I love being here. I think it's the most

buffest, badass country on the planet, but we do a lot of things wrong. And you can choose to play

in that ecosystem or get caught up in the rat race and you can choose to live outside of it.

And that's kind of what the article is touching on is just how literally the title of it,

the American life, you know, is killing us for lack of a better term.

And I'm going to chop out a good chunk of this article because I don't want to read, you know,

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