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Yeah. I mean, and even if you just basic it down, right, like this room, what came first, the room or the thought of the room? Everything in this room. It was a thought first.

Everything. Right. Everything on our planet was a thought first.

Everything. Right. Everything on our planet was a thought first.

Everything. Right. Everything on our planet was a thought first.

Yeah. I mean, that's how this whole podcast started, I think.

Yeah. I mean, that's how this whole podcast started, I think.

Yeah. I mean, that's how this whole podcast started, I think.

You know, I was reading that book, Big Magic. I don't know if you've read that book. No. It's wonderful. Yeah. well, I guess I should back, you know, I was doing a lot of documentary work that was on social issues, right? That was all like fixing broken things in our great country. And then I had a few deaths in my own life.

You know, I was reading that book, Big Magic. I don't know if you've read that book. No. It's wonderful. Yeah. well, I guess I should back, you know, I was doing a lot of documentary work that was on social issues, right? That was all like fixing broken things in our great country. And then I had a few deaths in my own life.

You know, I was reading that book, Big Magic. I don't know if you've read that book. No. It's wonderful. Yeah. well, I guess I should back, you know, I was doing a lot of documentary work that was on social issues, right? That was all like fixing broken things in our great country. And then I had a few deaths in my own life.

And I thought, my gosh, whatever I do next, I want to fix what's broken in humans, because I was in a complete topsy turvy thing of how do these great people that are heroes, you know, a police officer going in and saving someone, my other friend was taking care of They're unhoused in Kansas City, and how do they die?

And I thought, my gosh, whatever I do next, I want to fix what's broken in humans, because I was in a complete topsy turvy thing of how do these great people that are heroes, you know, a police officer going in and saving someone, my other friend was taking care of They're unhoused in Kansas City, and how do they die?

And I thought, my gosh, whatever I do next, I want to fix what's broken in humans, because I was in a complete topsy turvy thing of how do these great people that are heroes, you know, a police officer going in and saving someone, my other friend was taking care of They're unhoused in Kansas City, and how do they die?

So I was going through my own just like kind of grief process and thinking whatever I do next, I don't want to look anymore. I was humbled to do that work of broken social systems. I want to fix what's broken in humanity and figure out what that is. But anyway, I was reading Big Magic, and this is a book about how ideas by Elizabeth Gilbert, how ideas –

So I was going through my own just like kind of grief process and thinking whatever I do next, I don't want to look anymore. I was humbled to do that work of broken social systems. I want to fix what's broken in humanity and figure out what that is. But anyway, I was reading Big Magic, and this is a book about how ideas by Elizabeth Gilbert, how ideas –

So I was going through my own just like kind of grief process and thinking whatever I do next, I don't want to look anymore. I was humbled to do that work of broken social systems. I want to fix what's broken in humanity and figure out what that is. But anyway, I was reading Big Magic, and this is a book about how ideas by Elizabeth Gilbert, how ideas –

are outside of us because the creative process is it comes to you and they're you know it's wonderful in the book they talk about songwriters who heard her song and if you don't grab it you'll hear that same song on the radio or or just how a story will come to you fully formed and uh one of the kind of topics that comes up in that book too is you don't ask the creative whatever this god muse ether right to to um to give this to you tell it i'm going to do this with you it's going to be great

are outside of us because the creative process is it comes to you and they're you know it's wonderful in the book they talk about songwriters who heard her song and if you don't grab it you'll hear that same song on the radio or or just how a story will come to you fully formed and uh one of the kind of topics that comes up in that book too is you don't ask the creative whatever this god muse ether right to to um to give this to you tell it i'm going to do this with you it's going to be great

are outside of us because the creative process is it comes to you and they're you know it's wonderful in the book they talk about songwriters who heard her song and if you don't grab it you'll hear that same song on the radio or or just how a story will come to you fully formed and uh one of the kind of topics that comes up in that book too is you don't ask the creative whatever this god muse ether right to to um to give this to you tell it i'm going to do this with you it's going to be great

And so I said that out loud. I was reading this book. I was in this moment of just major shift in my life. And I said, whatever I do next, I want to solve the question of where we're going and why we're here and what it all means. And do we have a consciousness? And does it survive? And then... And no, I actually didn't ask it. I said, yeah, I said, I'm going to do this next.