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Okay, well I'm not going to do what I said I wouldn't do and release the whole conversation I had

with Omar Aziz. Now I like to take a few minutes to explain why I've decided to do this and provide

some context to the conversation itself. First, why have I changed my mind? As I said before,

I didn't want to release this podcast because I thought it was a terrible conversation.

And terrible in ways that were not actually interesting. I was attempting something with Omar

that he wasn't up to. And I failed repeatedly to get the conversation on track. So it was a failure

on both our parts to have a productive conversation. And I just felt that broadcasting this failure

wouldn't be good for anyone, and that listeners would find it incredibly frustrating.

But I've received an extraordinary amount of pressure, both well-intentioned and not,

to release this podcast in response to the cries of censorship I heard from Omar and Glenn Greenwald

and a wide range of silly people. And this pressure has come not merely from the silly themselves,

but from my actual supporters who say that my not releasing the podcast is making the job of defending

me much more difficult than it needs to be. According to many of you, even though I told Omar in

advance that I wouldn't release the podcast if I thought our conversation had been a total waste of

time, my not releasing it is too easily spun as my hiding something, and incredibly as my

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