All right, Matt, I've got a topic I want to talk to you about, and I've read a bunch of things,

and I'm going to present some information to you from a scientific, like, philosophy perspective.

Ooh.

But I, but you're really good at all that. You're really good at the philosophy part, and you're really good at, like, the history part

and extrapolating things that happen in the past to the future.

And so I think this topic is going to be uniquely interesting.

It's in that Venn diagram between things I like,

like space and things you like, like exploration and, I don't know, the future of humanity and the history of thought.

Thoughts?

Great.

This is what, I mean, hopefully people have figured this out by now, but there's like three or four basic formats for the episodes that we do, and this is one of them.

It is.

This is also actually the aliens episode that i've

been promising for what it is aliens yeah you've been begging me to talk about aliens for months

that's about to bring it up in socially uncomfortable situations destined you know my my aunt is terribly, terribly sick. Oh, man, that sucks. So I've

been thinking about aliens a lot, bro. Oh, well, okay, but anyways, like we might have to put down my dog.

Ah, dude. Do you think there's stuff watching us, though? Bro!

So we just need to do this.

We need to make this happen so we can clear this off the plate and we can get back to to being friends.

Yeah, but I'm going to be, I'm going to level with you here.

I am not ready to go all in on the aliens conversation.

Like what I would like to do today is just kind of present some ideas to you.

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