Michael. Peter. What do you know about this secret? Uh, all I know is that for two weeks now,

I've been visualizing having a good opening zinger for this episode.

All right, I am going to set the vibes by sending you a YouTube video.

Oh, and I want you to just watch the first 50 seconds of it. Okay. And this is a pure vibe,

Seder. A year ago, my life had collapsed around me. I'd worked myself into exhaustion.

My father died suddenly and my relationships were in turmoil.

Little did I know at the time out of my greatest despair was to come the greatest gift I've been given

again. You know this secret gives you everything you want. What kind of a host you want to live in?

Do you want to be a millionaire? What kind of a business you want to have? Do you want more success?

What do you really want? This is like, I guess presumably the Australian woman who's talking. This is a

woman who's like walking through the desert and she's like on a quest and then she goes up into

the attic of her house or something, some sort of like haunted castle. And then she opens a box,

like a secret treasure box and there's a book, like a tomb inside with a note that says mama,

this will help. And then she opens what is fundamentally just like a fairly generic self-help book.

That's right. But she's presenting it as this like, yeah, a secret of like how to live, I guess.

And when she opens it, images of great philosophers and artists flash before her eyes.

I just wanted to set the vibe because the secret is a book by Rhonda Byrne, released in 2006,

but it's based on this documentary of the same name that she wrote and produced. The basic

claim of this book is that it contains the secret to life. When it came out, it was a sensation.

It sold Michael 30 million copies. Oh, shit. That's that's almost 10 freaking omixes.

And Rhonda Byrne herself, who was really just a nobody before this suddenly everywhere.

Talk shows, morning news segments, full nine yards. She is an Australian woman, visually,

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