Hey, everybody. This is PJ quick note before we start the show. The second episode of our

new spin-off project, the Scarity Cats Horror Show is out now. It is Alex Goldman, an

avowed horror fan, forcing me PJ vote, a horror scary cat to watch a series of increasingly

scary horror movies in the hopes of eventually getting to a place where we can watch get

out. So far, it's been a lot of fun. We've had some great guests on episodes come out

every other week. If you're interested, you can hear them early on Tuesdays on Spotify

or everywhere else on Fridays. Here's the show.

From Gimlet, this is Replyall. I'm Alex Goldman and I'm PJ vote. Hi PJ, hey Alex, what are we doing here?

This week we have a Super Tech Sport. And it's not your average Super Tech Sport. I feel

like normally with a Super Tech Sport, someone comes to us with a problem. We triangulate a solution.

Maybe we're not always perfect, but we usually figure out pretty well what's going on. This one is

much more confounding because the more I worked on it, like the less certain I became of the answer.

And I've basically come out the other side believing to contradictory things simultaneously,

which is absolutely painful for my very linear brain, which is incapable of abstraction of any kind.

Okay. So my hope is if I tell you the story, you might be able to help me come closer to

understanding where the truth lies. Okay, I can't promise that I will like incitefully find the truth,

but I'm excited to have excited to see if I have an opinion. Think of this less as a Super

Tech Sport. More as a philosophical journey on the nature of truth. All right. Do you want to

do you want to wear like a professor jacket with tweet on the badges? I was actually thinking

in the tradition of the classic philosophers I would wear toga and one of those rings of

like of like leaves that they wear around their ears. Okay. What's the story? So we heard from a

listener named Brian Dean who got in touch with us just after Christmas. He lives in Savannah,

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