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Welcome back to the show.

It is a 4.2 million subscriber Q&A episode,

and, as is tradition, I asked for questions from Twitter and YouTube

and Instagram and there were lots. So let's get into it. Stealthing through 21. What's going on

with all these group episodes in the studio? Yeah, I guess I kind of launched this studio and at no point actually got to tell you that it was happening.

It's sort of unceremonious beginning. There was no ribbon-cutting thing.

And I'm just having a lot of fun, having multiple guests in the studio with me.

You know, for a long time, modern wisdom's been very serious, meaningful conversations, me talking to world experts, you know, 1,100 episodes like that. And I still love doing that. But sometimes it can feel a little bit like homework when it's very serious all the time. And these hang style episodes, the one that I did with Huberman, McCusker and Segura, for me was one of the most fun conversations I've ever had.

I thought that was awesome.

I think that the episodes I do with George and Sean have been so much fun as well.

The debate stuff is cool because it's not necessarily people on opposite sides of a discussion.

One of the problems of most debates,

at least for me on the internet, is that it becomes a slanging match. Everyone's there as basically

a verbal blood sport to see who can fuck who up the most. And you don't actually get to

arrive at consensus at the end. What you get is a bunch of people who shouted and you don't

actually know what the conclusion is or the takeaway, because no one's going to seed ground.

No one ever says, oh, actually, that's an interesting insight.

I never thought of that because they know that they're supposed to be in opposition, whereas the conversations that I'm trying to put together are people who have slightly differing perspectives on the same topic.

And that means that maybe they can actually develop each other's worldviews as opposed to it just being this like bay blade. Remember bay blades where you like gripped it and ripped it and it spanned around and everybody got destroyed? In the end, everybody got destroyed. I don't want that. I'm just having a lot of fun. I want to have a lot of fun on the show, especially this year. You know, it took six months to build the studio, and I love being here.

And I'm not going to do that and not invite my friends around to hang out and have a good time and have a laugh.

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