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Jun 22, 2026 15 min

The Summer Recession

from Backstage w/ Matt Stone Hosted by Matt Stone

It’s Monday, June 22nd — 92 days to fall, the World Cup is quietly turning NYC and Northern NJ into a parking lot, and Matt is back behind the mic with a confession: summer is a recession. Not the scary kind — the calendar kind. Fewer appointments, more out-of-offices, the slow exhale most businesses feel once the kids are out of school. And the smartest move in a recession, as a fellow named Franklin Delano Roosevelt understood when he signed the GI Bill in 1944, is to invest. Matt threads together that bill, a muttering Galileo, and the quiet art of planting now so you can harvest later. From there it gets personal. Matt digs into why growth always starts with letting go — even when the thing you’re letting go of is your baby — why process beats results on the days you’ve completely lost the plot, and what he’s putting in the ground this season, from a health reset to a reading stack with some uncomfortable parallels to right now. Oh, and one more thing: the daily journal is officially back. So what are you going to take a shot at today? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mattstone.substack.com

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