Thirty-two degrees when he woke up, heading to a ‘toasty’ 47 later, and Matt’s back after missing Monday—just off to the races. After sharing trivia about the NYC subway groundbreaking in 1900 (you can feel those 126 years) and someone surviving an 18,000-foot fall from a plane in 1944 (no parachute?), he dives into evolution and what’s changing with the show.

The five-day-a-week frequency is getting challenging with travel coming up (first time in Oklahoma next week), so things might get scattered. But he’s not stopping—just figuring out the commitment to himself and listeners in terms of when to expect episodes. The show might get rebranded as “Backstage” or “Behind the Stage” since the main business is The Bigger Stage, and this is the behind-the-scenes daily sausage-making. Matt Stone Live becomes the personal platform, The Bigger Stage houses everything else.

Here’s what’s launching tomorrow: a new LinkedIn show at noon Eastern with Kait LeDonne called What’s the Point?! Kait’s a smart, funny, all-around good human from the PR world, and they realized their conversations about headlines, messaging, and purpose should be a show. The ultimate question for all of us right now: whatever we’re doing, what’s the point? Social media and AI encourage proliferation and bastardization of everything, forcing us to ask—what’s the point of this post? This newsletter? This networking event? Is it meaningful? Helping our businesses? Serving us or others? They’re going to ask that relentlessly, maybe laugh in a semi-mocking way, and see if it catches fire. The real point: evolve, try, be creative, and stay open. How are you adapting today? What new thing will you try? What will you let go of to move forward?

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