Hey everybody, Stefan Moll and you from Freedom Main, hope you're doing well.

So as I head into, really can't believe this, my 19th year as a public philosopher,

I wanted to get you up to speed, get you up to date on what's happened this year, my evaluation of where we are in terms of a conversation with the world about philosophy, things that have happened, things we're looking forward to and so on. So we ran the numbers,

figured out what had been going on this year. So this is of course 2023.

It's the end of the year. It is one, two, three, one, two, three, 31, two three thirty first of December twenty three and

and so what's happened well over the course of this year just this last calendar

year I've done 250 shows.

That's pretty good.

It's quite a lot about that.

But not only, but also there's more.

I've completed two books. Of course I completed my novel about

contemporary society and where we're heading, which is called the present and you can get that

at freedom.com slash books.

And I have finished peaceful parenting

and I'm reading it as I'm going through the final draft

from about 40% of the way through.

My book on peaceful parenting, so the text text is done but there's just a couple

of things I'm earning out as I'm going forward. I did 11 and a half hours on the deep history of the French Revolution, which is amazing stuff, incredible

stuff, and it is the kind of historical analysis you're not going to get anywhere else.

So that's been done. I've done 22 part series on the history of philosophers,

not the history of philosophy, but the history of philosophers. So that's tracing the progressive philosophy according to

particular philosophers somewhat academic really in depth really detailed and

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