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🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Carlos spent seven weeks without any screens—no phone, no computer, no TV. His newest book, Reconnected, documents that journey filled with monks, Amish, a bobcat, and lots of self-discovery.
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0:00.0 | Quick question, Chuck. |
0:04.6 | Yep. |
0:05.0 | How fast is Godspeed? |
0:07.2 | I have a... |
0:08.3 | I mean, do you want the real answer? |
0:09.7 | No, it was rhetorical. |
0:11.0 | I know you know the answer because we just learned it from our fantastic guest, |
0:15.2 | Carlos Whitaker, who just left the studio. |
0:18.0 | Man, you guys are going to like this guy. |
0:22.2 | Congratulations on finding another winner and thank you. Woo-hoo, man. That's what I live for, Mike. How'd you find him? |
0:27.5 | I just got an email, you know, from a publicist saying, hey, this guy wrote this book. |
0:31.6 | Never mind. Yeah. You didn't do anything at all. Basically, you opened your email. I did, I did open my email, but then I investigated it. And once |
0:39.1 | I found out what his book was about, I was like, oh, I think Mike is going to like this. |
0:42.8 | You investigated it. Is it that today, like saying, oh, let me do some research on that and |
0:48.5 | Googling the thing? Yeah. An investigation used to imply a certain level of diligence. Yeah. |
0:54.8 | You know, deliberateness. |
0:56.6 | Oh, it was pretty deliberate. |
0:57.7 | I mean, I had to type in letters and then I had to hit enter. |
1:01.8 | And, you know, so. |
1:03.1 | This actually is somewhat relevant to the conversation you're about to hear because Carlos Whitaker, what this guy did, first of all, as best I can understand it, |
1:13.1 | he kind of runs a company that requires him to give lots of speeches and write many |
1:19.2 | different books and help people influence other people. But he's a he's kind of a fixer |
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