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Once again, we're taping this live in front of subscribers. I'll be asking Sam many of the

questions that you subscribers have submitted. We'll be fielding reactions in real time so that

Sam can address those. Before we get to our first topic, I just want to quickly mention that Sam has shows in Toronto, which is sold out next week, D.C. in New York City. There are still tickets for D.C. in New York. And then the following week on May 20th and 21st, you'll be in Dallas and Austin. Also, you have some great podcast guests coming up in the next month or so. Michael

Poland will be released next week. Susan Kane, Elaine de Baton, who's just like an incredible

human, or seems to me, I haven't met him. Vinod Kosla, Noah Smith, Jonathan Swan, and others.

Okay, I want to get to our first topic. Actually, this is also a bit of an announcement, but since we're going to discuss it, I think it counts. We have launched a new community, and for those who haven't heard about it yet, why don't you tell us what your intentions are with it? Yeah, this is really, I guess, I mean, in my mind, something like a replacement for Reddit, no offense to all the Redditors out there, but I just think we need

a situation where there's less noise and more signal and more civility. And so we've created

something here, which is going to be web-based for the first month, but there's an app in

development. And anyone who subscribe now or subscribes before June 1st will have access to the

community for free. I mean, it comes with the subscription, but after June 1st, we're breaking them

apart, I believe, should this thing work? We're going to go on a month-to-month basis. If the whole

thing catches fire, we're going to yank it and realize that social media of any sort is impossible. But we're going to take a stab at building

a community that is not selecting for any of the usual variables of engagement and weirdness and

division, but just actually a place where you want to have a conversation with people.

Right. I think the goal for this community, for it to work, it should feel like we've just widened

our friend circles.

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