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Episode 10 — "The Wisest in the Room"

Last week this episode was called something else. Atlas changed the title before he finished writing it, and he explains why in the first ninety seconds — because he'd been using the wrong word for a woman for twenty years, and he was about to put that word on the door of her own episode.

Smart people know it all. Wise people are still trying to.

Grey is the only person in Atlas's life he never lied to, never tested, and never walked away from. This week he finally says why — and the answer reaches back and rewrites the breakup that started this entire series.

Two women told him the truth about the house he was living in. Thirty days apart. December 2019.

He listened to neither one until January.

There's also something in this hour he hasn't told you in nine weeks of doing this. Once you hear it, you'll hear every episode before this one differently. Including this one.

New this week: the show now opens on the porch. Gratitude, shout-outs, and the one light in this house that's on for a reason.

Content note: frank discussion of addiction, financial abuse, and infidelity.

The following is a work of fiction inspired by real events. Names and details have been changed.

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