Fatal Conveniences

“And now you've got this new book, Fatal Conveniences. So congratulations, buddy. Thanks, dude. You know, I know two and a half years of Dude, I know how long and how hard you've been working on this thing”

“Um, you know, on the one level, uh, you know, you can read this book and and and basically the thesis is is like everything we use, buy, eat, wear, everything we sleep on, everything we use to keep cool or clean ourselves or our stuff is is bad and is trying to kill us, right?”

“Yeah, I saw that in the book. That was shocking because you would think that's that's by that's a bygone. Like that that doesn't exist anymore. We we we got our [ __ ] together when it came to that.”

“And essentially, you know, the kind of quote that you have in the book on this is that that she talks about is is this this burden of proof, right? like basically it's not a situation in which the company who's about to put a product on the shelf has to prove that it's safe.”

“Like if you sat down and read this book from beginning to end, your head would explode, right? So like how do you even, you know, begin? I mean, I guess before we go any further, maybe like give me your definition of what a fatal convenience is.”

“I learned a lot about this in your book is it ignores the infinite complexity and interplay of all of these different chemicals interacting with each other which makes it impossible to study or evaluate”

“That's what it Yeah. You can't outsource uh these decisions to governmental bodies that you're relying upon for solid information. Like that's that's really, you know, the kind of drum that you're banging throughout this book.”

“and you know your very robust uh appendix and all the resources make clear like you know this doesn't you don't have to be like Darren and like live in the woods and you know in a yurt or whatever like you can still you don't have to be a lite like you can live in the world”

“I don't know, but I've read a huge amount that says this is not clean. There's there's some dangers present here. There's this uh Swedish study that you talk about in the book uh that describes this thing they call the uh the microwave syndrome”

“Like, what are the what are the, you know, the things that are the most important to address first, maybe paired with the easiest changes or most convenient changes to make to, you know, launch somebody on their own, you know, version of your journey.”

“Um, I love you, buddy. you did a great job with this book. It's it's a real act of of public service and uh I think it's going to do really well, man. Can't wait for it to be out in the world and and start impacting people so we can change the world.”

“In the meantime, pick up Fatal Conveniences and uh just sit quietly at home and await Darren's uh next appearance on the podcast whenever that might be.”

“And that book is definitely an example of knocking me back a notch thinking I know and and sitting me in the seat of like this is number one so shocking. I don't know how many times, Rich, going through each chapter and each research, I was like, "What the reading it and I still don't understand why this is”

“So it it was sort of written with him in mind, like he was the the audience member that you were writing for. Cuz if he doesn't, my brother's like, if he learns something and he can understand it, it's not all people are like this, but he goes, "Oh, well, why would I do that?”

“So I'm like, okay, well, I'm writing something on the one hand of Superlife trying to help people get better, but then this invisible elephant right in the room of our world is just screaming in my head and the full circle because my dad was the first teacher, you know, as a teacher.”

“Obviously, a third of the book is littered with solutions for these things. So that's the hope, right?”

“Then you're putting on your your mas mascara and your makeup and you're god forbid you ever use regular perfume after reading this book again. There's great again there's amazing choices essential oils and things that are frank frankincense and myrrh”

“I wish I never had to write this book. I I do. You know, I have a busy life. I've got a lot to do. You know, I took two weekends off in two years cuz every weekend it was less distracting and I spent just a huge amount of time on the every day all day, Saturday, Sunday.”

“Uh at this point, it's just that, you know, the the book is a conversation starter about a lot of things. I could have that could have been a volume series of 20 all based in fatal conveniences.”

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