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Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with something much bigger and unexpected - a meditation on the loss of innocence and the gift of impermanence, for both Brad Balukjian and the former ballplayers he tracked down. To get a truly random sample of players, Balukjian followed this wildly absurd but fun-as-hell premise: he took a single pack of baseball cards from 1986 (the first year he collected cards), opened it, chewed the nearly 30-year-old gum inside, gagged, and then embarked on a quest to find all the players in the pack.

The Script & Wax Social Club was an Idea that for years became Secret Society of artists whom all together through a series of unfortunate events would find themselves through their art and journey to finding: Wisdom, Courage & Balance. After Years of being behind the books and closed doors, I'm opening up my journals and taking time to share some of my favorite stories and lessons along the way. Feel free to ask questions on my website or discord. Because sometimes we need wisdom, we lack courage and we struggle for balance. But, by Letter or Light we can find what we need with some help. ...

Everyone around you has a story to tell. Each week, Alex Williamns sits down with a different guest to capture their story and show that everyone lives an interesting life.

Professor Charles Kupchan and TV host and writer Ruby Wax on this edition of Fresh Air. Charles Kupchan's new book, "The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-First Century, Kupchan argues that the era of American dominance may be coming to an end; this demise will not be brought on by the Islamic world or China but from an integrated Europe.