What's happening people? Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Sebastian Jünger,

he's a journalist, author and filmmaker. Throughout history, humans have been driven by the quest

for two cherished ideals, community and freedom. The two don't coexist easily. We value individuality

and self-reliance, yet we are utterly dependent on community for our most basic needs.

Today, I expect to learn how having kids in your 50s can give you more freedom than you might

think. What happens when you lose 10 pints of blood and having a near death experience

while fighting to the death was most common in free societies. How countries with freedom always

get tempted toward tyranny and much more. It is interesting thinking about freedom as a British

person because we don't really talk about freedom all that much. Not that we don't care about it,

but just that compared with America especially, it's not a value that we hold up as an ideal

and looking at the history of it and how people have fought for it and what happens when you lose

it and the dangers of having too much of it are quite insightful. In very exciting news,

I am going to Austin tomorrow, this Friday. I am flying out to Austin, Texas for a few weeks.

I will be recording out there and taking the show on the road as it were. Video guide Dean is staying

in the UK sadly, but I will be getting some awesome episodes done out there. I'll be catching up with

David Peral and Aubrey Marcus and David Bus and Michael Males. It's going to be fun and we'll see

if I pick up a low-key text and accent in the space of a few weeks. In other news, this podcast

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