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Thank you.

We've clearly waited too long to become to Vancouver. Thank you. Amazing.

So a quick rundown on this evening's event. There's a couple of microphones set up.

We will be getting to questions from you guys a little later on. We're going to chat for,

you know, however long we feel like it, but we want to make sure there's time for questions

after that. So good to see you both again. Yes, I quite. I'm really enjoying kind of this

series of events, and I thought today we'd start off in a different direction that's all about me.

It's actually a question that I think both of you are going to have really good input on.

I did a debate a couple weeks ago against a preacher who seemed to have not only no understanding

of science, but no appreciation for it. Didn't care. Didn't care if he was fairly representing it.

As a matter of fact, I think there's a chance you might have stood up in a cost of him at some point,

because he literally stood in front of me and said, oh, that evolution stuff. It's not like anybody's

ever banged sticks and rocks together and got a puppy. He said this twice during the debate. The first time,

we're in a debate structure, so I'm trying not to interrupt. I need to follow the rules of debate.

And the second time, I just halted and jumped right in, and I was like, you're right, that's never

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