I have a favorite ask. Okay. I took a bunch of math classes in high school and a little bit in

college, but the calculus thing, I'm not sure that really happened. I think I might have surfed

through that one a little bit. Like calculus didn't happen or you didn't take calculus.

I feel I took it and I feel like I understand or recognize some of the terms that come up that

are related to calculus, but it is a black hole in my understanding of mathematics. And I feel like

it would be helpful to understand that because I feel like it's the place where mathematics and

philosophy start to horseshoe back around together. These are both universal languages of reason and

understanding and I feel like I need to understand calculus better and I feel like you're really

good at explaining things and we're right here in the same room. So I would like to confess my

ignorance to you. I'm a calculus idiot. I don't know what I'm doing and I would like to know what

I'm doing and would you please give me that knowledge in the way you do where it makes sense to

normal people. Wow. How are going to be it's calculus right? Sure. Let's go.

All right, so calculus. I don't know. Hmm. Okay. So listen. So how about we just do it without

using any fancy math words? All right. Okay. So when I was a kid, I was sitting in a car. I forget

if it was my dad driving or my uncle Stan. I forget who was driving. But I remember observing that

there was something hanging from the rear view mirror. Okay. Imagine a pendulum hanging down from

the rear view mirror of a car. Sure. Like a new age crystal. Sure. Whatever or a tree air freshener.

Whatever it needs to be in your mind. Okay. And imagine that we're at a stoplight and the windows

are rolled up. So when it's not a really big deal, the air conditioner is off for whatever. And the

light turns green. And when the light turns green, the driver steps on the accelerator and you're a kid

and you don't know words, you know, but you're looking at that pendulum and you realize that as

you accelerate that air freshener or the sunglasses hanging from the mirror or though, let's just

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