What Labor Day 2026 Actually Looks Like in America

6.9 million unemployed. 1.8 million long-term unemployed. 31 percent engagement. Hundreds of millions of vacation days paid for and never used. This is the honest snapshot of American work heading into Labor Day 2026.

You cannot pray for the man in the drought if you don't know how big the drought is. And you cannot rededicate to your own work if you don't know how many of your neighbors are running on 31 percent engagement right next to you.

In this Episode, we cover...

Freedom of Speech: "The Job You Have Is Someone's Prayer" 

Full Story: "122 Days Left: The Labor Day Promise for the Rest of the Year" 

From the Newsfeed: "What Labor Day 2026 Actually Looks Like in America"

Faith & Hope: "The Labourer Is Worthy" 

Father Time: "The Balance Comes Due"

Funny Factory: "The Great American Return-From-Vacation Email"

Fitness Minute: "The Last 122 Days." Brought to you by Cardio Miracle.

🔔 Subscribe for new episodes every Thursday at 3pm MST

👉 A huge thank you to our sponsor, Cardio Miracle! The world’s best Nitric Oxide and Vitamin D3 supplement. Support your heart health and keep your promises to your body. Get yours here: https://cardiomiracle.com/ 

📖 Jason's book "The Promise to the One": https://www.amazon.com/Promise-One-Ja...

🌐 Website: https://jasonhewlett.com/

The Jason Hewlett Show — Where we use lots of F Words: Faith, Family, Fatherhood, Freedom, Fitness, Funny & Farce, as well as the Fulfillment of your Promises.

Part of the MiTL Live Network.

#TheJasonHewlettShow #TheOnesWeSend #KeepThePromise #LivingYourFaith #MissionaryParent #FaithAndFamily #LettingThemGo #OnTheLordsErrand

Transcript

Copy Transcript Copied

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Labor Day is Monday. September 8th is the start of the last 122 days of the year. Are you ready for it? Somewhere this weekend, a man is going to refresh a job board for the 400th time this month. And somewhere else, a man is going to roll his eyes at his own alarm clock on Tuesday morning like it personally offended him. This show is for both of them because neither one of them is who he thinks he is. I'm going to talk today about the job you have and the one somebody else is praying to be in your seat for. And then I want to talk about what you're going to do with the 122 days you have left in 2026. Welcome to the Jason Hewlett Show. Coming up on the Jason Hewlett Show, freedom of speech. We'll talk about the job you have is someone's prayer. The American man has been trained to call his job a grind. Somebody with five-mile radius of him would take that job today without hesitation. It's time to say it out loud. In the full story, there's 122 days left. Labor Day promised for the rest of the year, two men on Saturday night, one alarm clock, and the last third of the year sitting on the calendar waiting to be claimed. And from the news feed, what Labor Day 2026 actually looks like in America, we're going to talk about some unemployed and some looking for employment that are desperate for it. And we're going to talk about the vacation days America paid for and never used. In Faith and Hope, we'll talk about the laborer is worthy, three verses that reframe work from curse to portion. And in Father Time, I'll share about what our family went through this morning in saying farewell to our sweet 18-year-old son Romney, headed to another land on his mission for two years. This is the hardest thing I've done as a father. Uh, had to do it last year for our son Redford. Now we're did that today with Romney. We're doing it again next month with Ella. They're all going on missions and they'll be gone for a while. So we'll talk about that. And then the funny factory, hoping to make you laugh with the great American return from vacation email. Seven inbox lies every working adult in this country has told this week. And then in the fitness minute, the last 122 days. Yep, it's brought to you by Cardio Miracle. I am so grateful for Cardio Miracle. They have been a great sponsor for the show. I take it every day. I'm drinking it right now. I hope that you'll stay with me. This one is for every man who has a job to go to on Tuesday, and every man who wishes he did. I'm gonna be honest, every second of it is hard, painful, heartbreaking, even sobering. Times three. And also probably the greatest blessing of our lives. Times three. So today we're not just talking about missions, we're talking about sending. And that's the promise to show up. Not the promise to love the work. No, you don't have to love it. Not the promise to be even inspired, not the promise to post about it on LinkedIn with a coffee cup and a sunrise. The promise is to just show up. Tuesday morning, badge on, boots laced, alarm silenced, somebody counting on the version of you that walks through that door. That is a promise. And most American men have stopped calling it one. You know, we call it the grind. We call it the daily, the I have to, when what we actually mean is we get to. Because somewhere between the punch clock and the slack ping, we forgot that the job we complain about every Monday is the same job somebody within a five-mile radius of us has been praying for since March. You know that guy. He's the friend who stopped coming to the men's group because he ran out of things to say when everybody else was talking about work. Or he's the neighbor whose garage door still opens at 6 a.m. Like he's leaving for a shift he doesn't actually have. Maybe he's the brother-in-law, you keep meaning to call. You know this person. He would take your job that you complain about on Sunday night without a second thought, without negotiating salary, without asking about the culture. He would take it because he needs to be back in. He needs the income. He needs somebody to count on him again. Here's the whole point today: the job you have is not yours. You are entrusted with it. Somebody prayed for the seat you sit in. And Labor Day is the one Monday of the year the whole country pauses to acknowledge that the seat is not automatic. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 6.9 million unemployed Americans in the most recent jobs report. Yeah. 1.8 million of those have been out of work for 27 weeks or more. One in four in the long drought. Yeah. Yikes. Somewhere. And that 1.8 million is your neighbor. Somewhere in that 25.5% is a man you know. The promise of work is not that you love it. I mean it's nice to love your work. Not everybody does. It is that somebody is counting on you and somebody else is praying to be in your seat. Both of those are true at the same time in every job in America. The Labor Day is the audit. Monday is the reset. Tuesday is the moment you decide whether you're going to keep the promise or take the seat for granted yet another week. So I have a few questions for you. Who prayed for the seat you sit in right now and do you know his name? Would you be willing to reach out to them? Would you be willing to see if you can offer any help? When was the last time you called your job a grind out loud? And who's listening when you said it? If the last three men in your circle who lost their jobs could see how you show up on Tuesday morning, would they be proud of you? Would they wonder why they ever wanted your seat in the first place? And what would change in your house this fall if you treated your work like a covenant or a promise instead of a commute? So who's the m one man in your life who's been out of work long enough that everybody stopped asking about it? And when is the last time you did? Maybe today's the chance to reach out to them. See how you can help. It'll go a long way. The full story right after this. We know that they're out there, and thank you very much for taking the time today to be here with us. This is, of course, repackaged into a podcast that you can listen to afterwards, but it's fun to watch as well. So thanks for taking the time. Anybody that is able to jump on. You know, picture two men on a Sunday night for just a second. Same neighborhood, same city, maybe the same church. And on paper, you could not tell them apart from their driveway in the front of their house. So man A is at his kitchen counter, updating his out of office reply. Vacation was good. Yeah. He is annoyed at his own alarm clock and hasn't set it yet because setting it makes Tuesday feel more real. He sets it at 11:47 p.m. and lies there wondering how this summer went by that fast. And then man B. He is at the same counter in a different house, refreshing a job board for the fourth time since dinner. Nine months ago he had a job. Six months ago he had a title. Three months ago he had a routine. Tonight he has a login. He has an alarm clock. He no longer sets because setting it would mean pretending to have to pretend to be somewhere. Both of these men are keeping a promise on Sunday night. That's the part nobody wants to say out loud. Man A is keeping the promise to show up on Tuesday. Yeah, and man B is keeping the promise to not disappear. Looks like Randy's here with us. Counting kind, man. Thanks for being here. Happy to be here, my friend. Looking forward to it. Thank you, brother. What a good guy. He shows up for me. I appreciate you, Randy. You know, both of these, both of these are doing a labor, both are dignity, both are what Labor Day is actually for. And here's what the calendar gives you on Monday, September 7, 2026, and hardly nobody anybody notices, really. Labor Day is the last clean inflection point of the year. Yeah, after this, the calendar swallows you. Have you noticed? September blurs into back to school. October's Halloween. Quarterly reports. November is Thanksgiving. December is the sprint to Christmas. And then the bloated crawl to New Year's Eve. If you don't set the promise on Monday, the calendar will spend the last 122 days for you. And you will wake up on January 1st having watched the year end instead of finishing it. So 122 days is about a third of the year. 17 weeks. About 87 working days. Enough time to keep one significant promise. Just one. Not enough to keep five. Most of us try to keep five and end up keeping none. Try to keep one. So here's the Labor Day audit I want you to do this weekend. Sit down alone with a piece of paper, not a spreadsheet. Don't open your computer. You shouldn't open your computer this weekend if possible. Don't open your iPad. Don't do it on your phone. Write with a piece of paper. There's something cognitive between the brain and the paper and the pen and making this a real thing. So a piece of paper, answer three questions. You ready? Question one. What was the promise I made to myself in January that I have not kept? Not five. The one. What's that one promise? You know the one you told your wife about on New Year's Eve, and you haven't mentioned it since Valentine's Day. It's the one your kid heard you say and has been watching to see if you meant it. Name it out loud. That's the promise the last 122 days are for. Question two. What is the version of me that keeps that promise? Not the fantasy version, the actual real and boring version. Let's be honest. Keeping promises and showing up every day can be boring. What time does he wake up? What time does he put down at 8 p.m. so he can pick it up at 9 p.m.? Or what does he stop doing so he can start doing the thing that matters? A promise you cannot describe in the body you're actually in is a wish. So write it down. Question three, who am I telling? Yeah, a promise you don't name to another human being is a promise you gave yourself permission to break the moment you made it. So tell your wife, tell your best friend, tell your kid that one costs the most and works the most because man, kids will not let you not keep your promise, especially if it's to them. Now, if you don't love the word of promise, then write down the goal. What is the one goal you meant to hit? I like promise because a promise is something even grander. But here's the hinge. Man A and man B, one going back to work and the one still looking, both need the same thing on Monday morning. Both need to name one promise for the last 122 days of 2026 and start keeping it on Tuesday. Man A's promise might be to be at the table when his kid gets home on Wednesdays. Man B's promise might be to send five real applications every week, not 50 automated fake ones. Both are labor, both are dignity. Both are what a man does when he decides that the last third of the year is not going to spend him. He's going to spend it. Labor Day is Monday, 122 days. Start on Tuesday morning after next. Somebody is going to end 2026 having kept a promise this fall. Let it be you. From the newsfeed, right after this. But we've got some news that's a little bit harder today, but then of course we've got some good stuff. So first of all, the story one is the Labor Day origin nobody reads. You ready? Labor Day did not come from a government office. It came from a parade. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the holiday traces to 1882, when Peter J. McGuire, General Secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, and a co-founder of the American Federation of Labor, proposed a day for a general holiday for the laboring classes to honor those who, from rude nature, have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold. That sounds nice. And then there was machinist Matthew Maguire, not related to Peter McGuire. This is Matthew Maguire. He's credited by some as the actual originator of Labor Day. Both men walked in the first Labor Day parade in New York City that year. Twelve years later, on June 28, 1894, President Grover Cleveland signed the law making the first Monday in September a national holiday. A carpenter and a machinist walk into a pro into a bar. No, that sounded like a joke. I'm going to start. Let's say a carpenter and a machinist walk in a parade in 1882. So that in 2026, you can roll your eyes at your alarm clock. Somebody built this holiday for you. Least you can do is know their name. So there they are. Story two: the jobs number. Let's talk honestly here. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent employment situation report, the U.S. unemployment rate stands at 4.1%, with 6.9 million unemployed Americans. Inside that number is the one nobody reads. 1.8 million have been jobless for 27 weeks or more. Man, 25.5%, one in four in the long drought. 27 weeks is more than six months. Six months of updating a resume, six months of interviewing, six months of not knowing what to say when somebody asks, How's it going? I don't know what to say. If you know a man who's been out of work that long, call him this weekend. Don't just hear those numbers and think, oh, that's too bad. If if you're not one of them, you're you're the lucky one. You don't need to call to ask how you know ask to help. You can just say, is there something I can do? What would what could be helpful for you? Like, I don't I don't think we need to find the job for somebody, but we need to at least be perhaps an advocate, open a door if we can to acknowledge. I mean, he doesn't need your fix, he just needs to be seen. In fact, today I got a message from a friend who's succeeding and he's crushing it. He has so many gigs, I can't believe it. I said, Man, I wish I had as many gigs as you do. And he said, Oh, do you need some gigs? I said, Well, I mean, I have enough, but I would like more. He said, Well, I'm glad I know that. Now I can start to refer you more. That was a simple ask that I didn't know I was asking for help, but now they're thinking of me. That's special. That's kindness. Captain kindness knows what I'm talking about. Story three, the engagement number. According to Gallup's employee engagement remains flat as AI adoption accelerates. Yeah. During the first half of 2026, only 31% of U.S. employees were engaged at work, and 18% were actively disengaged. You know what I'm talking about when I say disengaged, it's like working against the company. So do the math. Roughly half the American workforce is neither in nor out. They're just there. Just showing up in body, absent in spirit, running out the clock until Friday, scrolling as much as possible to not have to do any work. You cannot control the 51%. You can only control the version of you that walks into the building Tuesday morning. If you show up disengaged, you become the number. If you show up on purpose, you become the exception. Story four. The days America paid for and never used. According to a Clarify Capital survey, American workers leave an average of six paid vacation days unused every year. It's like a week's worth. Roughly $3,000 per worker left on the table. What? QuickBooks puts the national total. Are you ready for this? $172 billion in unused PTO annually. What on earth? With nearly 61% of workers leaving some on the table. If I had PTO, I would be using it. Oh my gosh. Captain Kindness says, perfect examples of kindness. Yeah, those are some good ones, I think, as well. Yes, thank you, my friend. You know, we're a country of tired people who will not take the rest we already paid for. Labor Day is one of the days you cannot skip. The office is closed. Choice is made for you. So this Monday, do not answer the email. I'm gonna try to. Do not open the laptop just to clean out the inbox, okay? You know, clean out the inbox. Don't do it. Take the day. Somebody in 1882 walked in a parade, so you could. Let's go into faith and hope right after this. Yeah, my friend Randy says here, warm bodies and chairs. Yeah, that's kind of what's going on with a disengaged worker. We don't want somebody like that around. And if we can get them engaged, and that's a powerful thing. I love to speak to that with, especially with groups that are struggling with engagement and keeping people engaged. It's fun. Let's talk about faith and hope. I want to read three verses with you. All three are about work, none of them are about rest. There's lots of those. Let's talk about work. Luke 10, verse 7. We're going to the King James Version of the Bible. Jesus is sent out the 70, second wave of missionaries in the Gospel of Luke. He tells them, and in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give, for the laborer is worthy of his hire. You've heard that before, right? Luke 10 7. The laborer is worthy of his hire. That's not a paycheck verse. That's a dignity verse. Jesus is saying the person who does the work has a right to be honored by the work, not just paid. Honored. When you diminish your own labor, when you call it a grind, when you apologize for what you do for a living, when you tell your kid that daddy has to go to the stupid job again, you're diminishing something Jesus called worthy. The Savior of the world did not use that language about your work. Don't you use it either. In Ecclesiastes 3, verse 22, Solomon has been walking through the whole book pointing out that everything is vanity, vapor, breath, chasing wind, and then he lands here. Wherever I perceive that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works, for that is his portion. That is his portion. Your work is your portion. Not your punishment, not your prison, your portion. In the Old Testament, a portion is what God gave you at the table. The Levites had no land, and the Lord said, I am your portion. Solomon is saying, For the working man, the work itself is part of what God gave you at the table. Rejoice in it. Not because it's so glamorous, but because it is yours. Randy says, Great advice, Jason. The holiday is there. Enjoy it. Yes, it is true. Thank you, my friend. And in Colossians 3, verse 23, Paul writing to a young church in a Roman-occupied town says, And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not unto men. As to the Lord and not unto men. That's the whole shift. You know, the manager who annoys you is not who you work for. I'm sorry to tell you that. You might be thinking, oh no, I work for the manager. No, you don't. The commission structure you don't love is not who you work for. Yeah, it could be better. You could probably get more commission. That'd be nice. And the client who never appreciates you is not who you work for. God is who you work for. When you flip the audience from the boss to the Lord, the work stops feeling like a grind. It starts feeling like an offering. So here's the whole message. The Bible doesn't treat work as a curse that the church has to tolerate. The Bible treats work as worthy, as a portion, as an offering. The offering. Three different apostles, three different centuries of scripture, one unified message. Your labor is holy when you offer it to God. Odd. So on Tuesday morning, the alarm clock goes off, and you're tempted to roll your eyes and call it a grind after the Labor Day weekend. Try three sentences instead. This is worthy. This is my portion. This one is for you. Randy, say you love the thought, Jason. Your work is your portion. I love that idea, that concept, right? Never thought of it this way. Say it before your feet hit the floor. Watch what happens to the day. If we are grateful for the work that we have, if we thank God for all the things that we've been blessed with, our life will be rich. I wish you well this Labor Day. I wish you well with your faith. And I know that uh each time that I get to testify about my Savior Jesus Christ and about God, I feel better. I'm so thankful that I get to do that on this show. Father Time, right after this. Okay, I'm gathering a few things here on my desk to make sure I don't miss them because there's a lot that I want to talk about in Father Time. So let me talk first about what just happened today. Romney, our son, left today. If you're watching this, here's a picture of my family. Romney is the one next to me in white. He is a gigantic man. But this picture was taken last year because his brother, Redford, in the blue, by mommy, he went on his mission to Santa Fe, Argentina. And uh he's been gone for a year. And then uh Romney just left today. In the white shirt, he left to Antigua, Guatemala. And then their sister in the front, she leaves to Peru next month. Pretty interesting to have all of this happening right now. The little guy, Royal, is actually about a foot taller now than he was in that picture last year. He's a he's now a big guy. Why am I showing you this? Because this is what I did today. This was a hard thing to say goodbye to this wonderful boy. Uh, I know that you've seen other pictures of let me just show you Redford first. This is him on his mission in Santa Fe, Argentina. This is him preaching the gospel for two straight years. We won't see him. It was a very hard farewell a year ago at our airport. This is Romney. This is the the dude who just left. He cut off his Jedi braid. I wish I had the video available. I guess it went viral right before he left the other night. So there's a video on TikTok of him cutting off the braid. It's going crazy all over the TikTok world. And then today, you you guys see how happy I look and we look in these pictures here. Yeah, this is when we found out where he was going. This was called the mission call opening. Well, guess what? This was today at 5 a.m. Oh man, nobody slept last night. We were frantically getting him ready, even though we've had all this time. It's just a last-minute just crunch, and it's almost impossible to make it work. This is all before we all started sobbing. So here's a picture of me hugging my boy, and the tears certainly flowed. I'm I'm gonna keep a few other pictures back because they're pretty, pretty grueling, uh gruesome in terms of sadness, and you don't want to see your family on uh online crying too much. But this was a real hug from this young man who's uh now a giant and a giant spiritually and physically. Gonna miss him so much. As we all said goodbye and we started to cry, he he walked to the security and the TSA and turned and waved one last time. That's the last time we'll see. That's the last time we'll see him for two years. Oh man. I've been crying all day. Alright, I I'm sorry to break down a little bit, but this is a big day for our family. It's something that every every parent wants their kid to do. It's in our religion. And whether you believe in a faith tradition or religion or not, we appreciate that you would respect the challenge of sending someone away. We appreciate those who've opened the door kindly to our son who's already been there. And we're hoping that the same will happen for Romney. He's a great, great person. And uh Wow, I didn't know I'd be breaking down again. I have cried more. I have cried more in the last year than I have ever cried in my entire life. And those are tears of joy and tears of being grateful for where they are and the choices they've made. Uh my friend Randy, he says some nice things. Congratulations, Jason. I know that feeling. My boy has been out just under a year. Thanks, Randy. I remember that last wave. Yeah, that's uh that's a heartbreaker, isn't it? And uh, we're so grateful that he's willing to go out there and do something that's pretty darn hard. I talked about it last week in the show. If you didn't get a chance to check it out, it was talking about sending them away. It was a lot about missionaries for sure, and equally it was about sending off people to the military, people to do service, somebody to college. Those things that we think to ourselves, man, I don't I don't have any control anymore of them being around. I mean, literally, we had to have him hand us his phone and then we hugged him and he walked away. He's first headed to Mexico, where he will be in intense training for four weeks on Spanish and on the gospel message that he'll be preaching. And then he'll be out in the field. He'll be carrying around this book. It's called the Book of Mormon, or in Spanish, El Libro de Mormon. No, uh, he'll also be teaching the Bible, he'll be teaching about Christ, he'll be bringing people the plan of salvation, and we're uh we're just so excited for him. And within one month, we'll be doing the same thing with our daughter Ella. She's leaving to Peru, she's going to Lima. So we've had a very emotional couple of weeks, but I just had to say this is the book he's handing out to everybody. It's called The Book of Mormon. If you've never read it, I highly recommend it. It's the greatest book I've ever read. And I, of course, the Bible along with it, amazing. He'll be sharing it in a libro de Mormon. Yeah, in Espanol, Ultra Testamento de Jesucristo. It's gonna be an interesting time for him. I can't wait. I'm so excited that he's finally going to get into the field and do what he's been wanting to do so much for his entire life. And this is our father time. This is a powerful moment in our lives. It's equally devastatingly sad. And so for Labor Day, we're going to go take a little retreat. There's only the four of us left now. Mommy, Daddy, Ella, and Royal. Ella will be gone by October. Well, man, then it'll be just Royal. We wish him well in hanging with us. But I can tell you this. We're going to take a break because we need it. And I hope that you will as well. If there's any way that you can take this weekend, make it for your family, for your faith, for yourself, for God. Thank him for our many blessings. Should we do some fun stuff? Let's go into the funny factory right after this. I just applaud any parent that's willing to let their kid go and do that. You know, every year, the week after Labor Day, the entire American working population tells the same set of lies to their inbox. Here are the top seven return from vacation email lies of 2026. I mean, I think you've told every single one of these. I hope you're ready. I hope this brings a smile. Number one, I have limited email access this week. Yeah, sure you do. You checked your email 17 times before your feet hit the sand, your phone face up on the beach chair, refreshing while your kid is drowning. Come on. You have unrestricted, obsessive, borderline, unhealthy access. And the auto-reply is a lie that you told the moment you left the driveway. Don't look at your phone at this time. Just enjoy your time. Okay. Number two, I will respond to your email upon my return. No, no, you probably won't. You'll scan the subject line. You'll labor, uh, you'll label it follow up later. You'll archive it six weeks from now during a meeting. You're not paying attention to. It's not you're on your list. It's not even on the list of your list. Just let it go. It's okay. It's not gonna happen. Number three, for urgent matters, please contact and then colleague's name. Yeah, you probably didn't even ask the colleague. You didn't even tell the colleague. You just typed the colleague's name into the field like an offering to the corporate gods. Colleague is drowning under the emails he dumped and quietly plotting your revenge. Number four, I'm currently out of the office and will return on such and such date. Oh my heck. How many times have I either heard this in a voicemail or seen it in an email? Nobody knows what date that is. You do not know what date that is. Half the people who get that autoreply will assume you meant Wednesday. Half will assume Monday. All of them will be wrong. And you know, the truth is last time I got one of those on a phone message or a voice message trying to leave message. They go, I'll be returning calls on the 7th, and then you're like, wait a second, it's the 21st. And then I leave the message like, hey, you might want to update your autoresponder there. Number five, thank you for your patience. No, don't thank them. You're not really thank them. They're they're not being patient, they're being ignored. Every email that starts with thank you for your patience is actually saying, I know I have wronged you, and I would prefer not to talk about it. Just apologize. It's it's easier, it's shorter. Number six, I look forward to reconnecting. Oh, yeah. You're not looking forward to reconnecting. You are looking forward to Friday. Reconnecting's a burden. You've scheduled for Tuesday between 9 15 and 9 47 a.m. And you are already dreading it. So is the person receiving the line. Number seven, best regards. Oh, you do not send best regards. You you send regards, some days barely passing regards, but best regards is reserved for wedding invitations and letters to the queen. You're sending a note about a spreadsheet. Just calm down for a second. The Labor Day inbox is coming for all of us. Say a prayer, set the auto reply, but take the day, watch what happens when you actually mean the words you type. And please, I'm gonna try my best to don't check the emails. I mean, I know you want to stay ahead of what's gonna flood your Tuesday, but please, for all that is holy, take the time off for yourself. Give yourself that break. We're gonna jump into the fitness minute right after this. 87 working days if you take your weekends and holidays, and enough time to build one habit that outlives the year. Here's what most men do with the last third of the year. They coast into September, brace for October, survive November, and stumble across the December 31st finish line with the same list of unkept promises they started January with. Then they set new ones, and the cycle continues. Don't worry, you're not the only one if you do this. I I do it too. But we're gonna try to fix that. Here's what I want you to try instead: pick one thing, one physical thing, not five, not a whole system, just one. You don't want to pick too many or else you won't focus on any. So maybe it could be ten minutes of movement before you jump into the email inbox for the day. Maybe it's water before coffee. Maybe it's 10,000 steps by 3 p.m. Are you tracking? Yeah. My watch reminds me. Hey, haven't hit your steps yet. No screens, maybe. This could be one. No screens after 9 p.m. How about some push-ups when the timer goes off? I mean, whatever it is, just one thing named, written down, promised to another human being. Just keep this promise for 122 days. If you do that, your body will start to thank you and will feel better. Because your body has to be able to keep the promise your mouth is making. And the Labor Day speech in your kitchen means nothing if the body giving it is running on fumes. And every promise you make this fall is only as strong as the blood flow, the oxygen, the sleep, nutrition, holding it up. I've done entire episodes about these things, about the importance of sleep, about staying healthy, about doing all we can to be our strongest best selves. Okay, this is where cardio miracle comes in. You've heard me talk about cardio miracle. I mention it on every single show. If you haven't tried it yet, you need to give it a shot. 60-day money back guarantee. No questions asked. If you don't like it, you can return it. Well, you can just keep it and get your money back. But Cardio Miracle, you poured in your drink. Very simple, delicious. I take it in the morning to start my day. I take it before the workout, get that pump. All that it's doing is dilating the blood vessels so that nitric oxide, which is the miracle molecule, the nitric oxide molecule widens the blood vessels and oxygen gets to the muscles better. So the heart pumps easier and the body has what it needs to, you know, actually keep the promise that your mind is making. So when you're working out with nitric oxide, your body is flooding much more oxygenation in blood. It's it's awesome. You can feel it. Bodybuilders have been using it for decades in their own variations. This is the very legal and natural kind, and you create that within your body when you drink cardiomerical. Now you can get nitric oxide in other ways, but we believe that nitric oxide can be stimulated in your body for more than 12 hours, even 24 or 36 hours. If you do one thing and you drink it with you have cardiomerical first, that ignites the nitric oxide. Captain Kyman says it works regularly. I use it regularly, it works great. Cardiomerical, the nitric oxide wonder drink. Yeah. Thank you, brother. I have to talk about this because I take it every day. I I love it. Here's the QR code. If you want to scan it and try it out for a discount, it's a great important thing in your life that I believe will be very helpful to anybody that's willing to try it out. So, my dad, and in full disclosure, my dad is the formulator and the founder of the company. And I started working with him a few years ago just because he wanted me to come in and help with some of the management stuff and allow him to go do some more, you know, cruises and enjoy his life. He should. He's in his 70s and he's had a magnificent career. So I'm glad that I get to be a part of his world and helping people to get to their goals. And our goal has been to save a million lives since 2007. And that well, guess what? I mean, it's it's now it's now been a monstrous thing that has happened. We've seen at least a million people that have found the benefits from Cardio Miracle. It's incredible. So every Cardio Miracle scoop is a promise, and that's kept one morning at a time. So I hope that you check out the show notes. If you want to know more about Cardio Miracle, go to Cardio Miracle.com. 122 days. One promise kept. That's all you need to do. If you do that, you will have a great rest of this year. And it can feel almost like a brand new New Year's Eve starting over for this really for this final couple of months, the final quarter. So let's bring it home. Alright, as we said, Labor Day's Monday. 122 days start on Tuesday morning after the next. So somewhere this weekend, the man who prayed for your seat is going to say a prayer for the job he doesn't have yet. Somewhere else, the man who has the job is going to roll his eyes at his alarm clock without meaning to. Which one are you? Both of them are you on different days. And the job you have is somebody's prayer. The day off you're about to take was marched and fought for in a parade in 1882. Kind of cool. The 122 days are yours to spend or yours to be spent by. So pick one promise, name it out loud, tell somebody who will not let you off the hook and keep it between now and December 31st. Somebody's gonna end this year having kept a promise this fall, and it's going to be incredible. Let it be you. And let me just wrap by saying, gonna miss my son. I I obviously I have broken down and cried a lot about it. I won't be talking every single week about my children and on our family, although a lot of people seem to enjoy learning about it. I'll talk about when some big things happen. And at the same time, I appreciate that you would take the time out of your schedule to join me for a monologue. I mean, that's all this is. I have yet to have a guest on this show. I'm not sure if I will. I feel that it's important to be able to talk to the camera, to be able to talk to you, and to share some of the things that I'm feeling and thinking. And Randy McNeely, great show, Jason. Love the 122 days concept, make the promise and finish the year strong. Yes, sir. And I know you and I are working on a project as well that we're gonna roll out here soon to the audience as well, in a couple of couple of months, perhaps. So thanks, Randy, for being here. Thank you to everybody who watches. Thank you to the production team. You guys are amazing. They're from all over the world, and they're waking up in the middle of the night to help me produce this show. So I'm so grateful for my team. I hope that they'll get to take a little labor day no matter where they are. Little nap, a little break. Don't answer my emails, don't look at my texts. And I hope that you'll honor that for the people that you work with as well. My friend, I'm Jason Hewlett. This has been the Jason Hewlett Show. Lots of F words, freedom, faith, family, fitness, father time. Yeah, even some funny. I'll see you next Tuesday. Guess why? I've landed some gigs that all fall on Thursdays in September. I don't know why, but every Thursday in September, other than today, because I wasn't taking a gig today with my son leaving. Every Thursday I'm out of town. So we're gonna switch it up for the next few weeks to Tuesday, and we'll return to Thursdays in October. I hope you'll join us still at 3 p.m. next Tuesday. Until then, keep the promise. Have a great day.