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July 2026
Joy, Privilege and the World Cup
The World Cup is really testing my wisdom. I love soccer – aka football everywhere except Canada, Australia and the United States. But I recognize that soccer has been caught in the cash nexus, as Karl Marx predicted everything would be under capitalism. FIFA has been exposed as horribly corrupt (including the recent apparent influence of Trump on FIFA), and elite players make fortunes not only through playing but also through endless endorsements. Does Messi really eat Lays potato chips or use the other products he peddles?
Soccer, however, does unite people. It also makes them happy, even if only for short bursts of time. For many people, watching football is associated with old friendships, families gathering around a small TV screen with flags tied around their necks, and sharing the rollercoaster of emotions that a game can bring. It is associated with chanting and drinking together, laughing and crying with strangers, or with a father and son going to the stadium to watch the mediocre team they support because it’s their team, and they share that experience. This camaraderie is especially critical in a period of the increased demise of groups that bring people together like a variety of community groups and clubs and religious organizations..
In 1936, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” Over the years, others have substituted the word "wisdom." I am struggling to be wise, as I both love and hate what I see in the soccer I watch. What I can’t unsee is the meaning the sport carries for people, even in times of war, crisis, and terrible politicians.
Co-founding The Life You Can Save and donating to the nonprofits they recommend has helped me feel a bit less guilty about my own privilege. But as I suffer through another round of “hydration break” Super Bowl-like advertisements, I think about what the “beautiful game” has become and whether I’m much better than Messi, Beckham, or any of the other soccer stars I see in the ads. I ask myself how much of the vast amounts of money players earn is used to help the poor. African countries are doing well in the competition, but does their success help save or improve the lives of people living in extreme poverty in their countries? Obviously not.
I enjoy both my own privilege and the game that I, and so many others, love, but I can also be disgusted by both. Whenever I feel pushed away from the sport and turn to things I find more ethical, I remember the thousands of people for whom football may be the only outlet, the only source of joy. It is then that I wonder whether it is itself a privilege to be able to look away, because I have other things to turn to.
It is a challenge to be wise. As the controversial Diego Maradona once said, the true essence of the sport, and the joy and passion it evokes, cannot be ruined by the mistakes of individuals and corporations. La pelota no se mancha.
Feel Good. Do Good.
Charlie & Matias
June 2026
Musings with Michael Schur
I had the pleasure of interviewing Mike Schur for my podcast. You can Google him, but he is a famous Hollywood writer/producer. Recently, he is well known for “The Good Place,” a series actually inspired by Shur’s interest in Peter Singer’s work. Mike actually helped assemble some of the celebrities that read chapters of the audiobook of The Life You Can Save.
His answers to questions were fascinating and I was most struck when he expounded on what he thought the biggest problem in The United States is. He said “individualism.” I hope you listen to the entire interview.
Feel Good. Do Good.
Charlie
Free: celebrity-read audiobook or eBook
May 2026
Free Book Download
Who would have guessed that a family vacation in Hawaii would have led to a life-altering experience? While doing the normal things people do on vacation, I came across and read Peter Singer’s, The Life You Can Save. Peter’s message moved me from mere contemplation to action. I contacted Peter, whom I did not know, and asked if I could help form a nonprofit to raise money for charities that help people living in extreme poverty.
I am not the only person who the book impacted. The message in the book and Peter’s previous essay he wrote while a graduate student at Oxford, “Famine, Affluence and Morality,” have moved people to donate 100’s of millions of dollars (if not billions) to organizations helping to save and improve lives of people living in extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
I hope the book, which you can download from The Life You Can Save’s website, will be inspirational for you too.
Feel Good. Do Good.
Charlie
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April 2026
The Girl in the Pond
This iconic video has moved many people, including Diana and me, to donate to help alleviate extreme poverty in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. I hope you will watch it and ask yourself if you are using your financial resources in the best possible way? I ask myself this almost everyday. And sometimes I choose to use our resources in a less than effective way, but I hope to make better decisions some of the time.
Perhaps you can share the video with family, friends, and your wider community. At a time when we feel powerless to change the course of world events that seem to be spinning out of control, we can still save the girl in the pond by giving to these high impact, cost effective nonprofits.
Thanks for viewing….
Feel Good. Do Good.
Charlie
March 2026
You Don’t Have to be Brave to Save Lives
One day I was at an actor friend ‘s home in LA filming a fundraising video when I decided to record something else I’d been thinking about for a very long time. The clip we are sharing here highlights the idea. I hope you enjoy and are, perhaps, inspired by it.
Feel Good. Do Good.
Charlie.