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EPISODE · Dec 22, 2025 · 16 MIN

Series Finale

from Make Your Day Richer · host Richard Wilmore

Welcome to a very special and bittersweet day. This is the series finale of Make Your Day Richer TV! It has been an incredible journey, and I wanted our final guest to be someone who truly embodies the spirit of honesty and finding purpose.Now, many of you know Matt Check as a career musician with a catalog of amazing Americana and country rock albums. But he’s here today to talk about his new memoir, a book where he truly 'put it all out there'. It has one of the most unique premises I’ve ever seen: it's written as an imagined conversation with the legendary author Philip Roth.In this episode, we discuss:The Philip Roth Connection: Matthew explains the unique conceit of his memoir—an imagined conversation with the late, great Philip Roth.Manhattan in the Mid-Aughts: We look back at the "cringe" and the struggle of his 20s.11 Years of Recovery: Matthew shares his journey through recovery and how he makes sense of past failures.Finding the Humor: Why he used his father’s "ridiculous" sayings as a source of comic relief in an otherwise heavy story.BIG NEWS TOMORROW ABOUT WHAT'S NEXT!

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