Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast live stream number. Isn't it 126? No. No, it's 125. Yeah. So I somehow imagined that the last the last live stream was a multiple of five. Something something has gone wrong. No, here we are perfectly.

I want to say, a perfect cube. A perfect. We are that square. Yeah. According to something. So I do want to say the helicopter sound effect is new. We're still dialing it in. But yeah, I did want to say we apologize to our regular live viewers for coming to you at an odd hour. We know that that is not ideal.

In this case, it was unavoidable. When we travel and we interact with people, we are increasingly hearing that the Dark Horse Podcast is keeping people sane and we feel an intense obligation to to people who feel that way. So that's why we're slotting this in here in the middle of the week. But that's actually not the only population is another population that quite apart from being kept sane is being driven crazy by the Dark Horse Podcast. We also feel an obligation to those people. And so here we are playing our role in the dark horse.

Playing our role in the universe. Indeed. Yeah. So as I've mentioned the last few few episodes. We have a very strange schedule coming up. So today we're going to be talking to you about the new current thing.

It was to say what that is. I'm going to make change in the next five minutes. But we're going to be talking to you about the new current thing today. But first some logistics.

No Q&A today. Basically when we're coming to you in the middle of the week, we are not going to be doing Q&A. We will come to you again this Saturday, though, in three short days at our normal time, 1230 noon.

1230 noon 30 Pacific on Saturday may seven, then we'll have a Q&A after that. And then it's going to be two and a half weeks before we come back to you again.

You've got a lot of travel that we've just been doing and it's coming up on Thursday, May 26th and then Saturday, May 28th and then a few Saturdays thereafter. So we are trying to get a few of these episodes in because as Brett said, we are.

We are so grateful for our audience and for the impact that we understand ourselves to be making.

So we encourage you as always, someone has stolen my pop. Someone has stolen my copy of a hunter-gatherer's guide to the 21st century. Brett.

Why do you think it was me?

You're the only other person who sits here. It doesn't matter. We encourage you to read this book, which provides an evolutionary toolkit to modernity.

And in fact, to grappling with the new current thing almost no matter what it is.

It's been COVID for a while. It was Ukraine for a while and we'll be talking today about what it is now.

I just think we need to get our terminology in order. It is useful for grappling with the current current thing. Right. That way, one and done, the current current thing, whatever it happens to be, this book will help.

I hope so. I think so. I hope so. Yes. We are live streaming right now on YouTube and Odyssey and the video will also be available on Spotify and then of course the audio anywhere you find your podcasts, Apple, etc.

In natural selections, my sub-stack this week, I posted on the idea that seems to be common in many circles now that if you don't agree with me, it must be because you're ignorant. And we're going to be sharing a little bit about that today, including the naming of the phenomenon by Dr. Alana Redstone, who I was privileged to remete this week.

And I guess the only other logistics are to once again, thank our audience. We're supported by our audience. We appreciate you subscribing and liking and sharing both the full videos that you can find here wherever you're watching.

And also at Dark Horse Podcast Clips, which are the stations, that's not right, what do they call channels, channels on both Odyssey and YouTube. And the clips are very shareable and they make great gifts.

Not really. But I try it out. I don't know.

But they're, but they're, but they're imminently shareable and and yeah, just just that. And of course, we appreciate financial support from those who can afford it.

Most weeks, you can ask questions on our Q&A, not today, then we won't be doing a Q&A. You can join one of our patrons where we have mostly private Q&As and Brett has conversations with people.

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