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1.75 million subscribers. It will be more than that now. It will be more than that when this video goes out too, but it is all arbitrary, isn't it?

Our base 10 number system. 0.75 as a milestone. You know what? I've changed my mind. This is a 1.77875 million subscriber Q&A. Welcome, everyone. First question, how are you? Well, thank you. I'm doing

fine. I'm doing well. I'm pretty tired. It's been quite full on recently. But this week has been a

particular moment of gratitude and reflection for me, because a lot happened. So about a week ago at the time of filming,

I uploaded a video about how I'm not secretly becoming a Christian, despite what TikTok might

have you believe. It got about a million views in roughly 24 hours, which I think is the first

time that's ever happened on this channel. so that was pretty cool. Also last week,

the footage from a panel I was on was released on YouTube. It was hosted by Professor Brian Cox,

which if you'd have told me five years ago, ten years ago that I'd even get to meet someone

like Brian Cox, I would have been incredibly excited, and there I was on stage with him. Turns out he actually

didn't really like my philosophical worldview very much. Never meet your heroes, I suppose, but I had a

wonderful time, and it was just a really cool thing to be invited to. The day after that, an interview I

did with Big Think got released, and again, Big Think is a channel that I've been watching unknowingly at times

for probably about a decade, just these videos with the white background. I didn't even know

that there was this company called Big Think probably five, ten years ago, but I'd seen their

videos. And because that went out the very next day, it kind of made me step back for a minute and

think, a panel with

Brian Cox, a video with a million views, an interview with Big Think, this is actually pretty

weird and pretty incredible. And of course, again, the very next day, I released the first

clip from my podcast with Michael Stevens from Vsource. I get to interview a lot of really cool people on this channel,

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