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Oh, well there are a little crazy kids crazy kids. How are you guys doing crazy kids?

It's a totally new year. We already said that Sarah. But I'm just saying it's fresh start. I'm

reiterating my fresh start because we didn't talk about New Year's resolutions slash goals because

we don't call them resolutions anymore. On the last one. We talked about them a little bit because

we talked about how I'm trying to do stop being polite. Yes, that's right. How's that going?

Well, I told Sarah privately, but I will reiterate and I know that the person that was hosting

this party listens sometimes. So my apologies to her. It wasn't her fault. But I was at a party recently.

Just some background is our idea of stop being polite is like how women are always put in these

positions, whether it's sexual or otherwise, where we're trained to keep the peace and just go

go along to get along or whatever. And I don't want to do that anymore. And so we have these shirts

we're trying to start a movement stopping polite. It's right. But I failed already because I was at

this dinner. So it's a hurdle. Oh, yeah, a hurdle, a small speed bump on your way to it was a

learning opportunity. There you go. Opportunity for learning. I love it. Good refrain. There was a guy

at the party, an older gentleman, very handsome, lovely, accomplished, confident fellow as they often

are white, white, straight. Oh, man. And he had learned throughout the evening that I was a PhD

in religious studies, but he also had learned that I am secular. I'm not devoted to a particular faith,

but that I research religion. As we sit down to dinner, he starts gearing up and he's like,

it's not often that we have in our press. He can mind we're not at his house. I just met him

in an hour ago, right? He goes, we're not often in the presence of a scholar of religion. And I

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