Good morning everybody hope you're doing well Stephen Mullen you from you know where Christmas Eve and I wanted to get out have a little bit of a walk before the

live stream and yeah just kind of really stream.

And yeah, just kind of realized this year it's pretty wild.

It did almost 250 regular old podcasts.

Did 12. old podcasts, I did.

12 hours on the French Revolution.

I wrote the peaceful parenting book, wrote my novel The Present,

or at least published it with audio book yes it has been a busy

year and thank you for your support free domain.com slash don't it all right great

question from a listener, I thank you guys for really helping bring out the best in the conversation.

Fantastic question.

The question goes a little something like this. My question is, is, what kind of tracks do we have here?

Hopefully it's not a pack of deadly coyotes that like their meatballed.

So the question is, Steph you say, you say you say

you want diamonds and a ring of gold.

Steph you say that we should take 100% responsibility for our actions,

and yet at the same time you say we should not blame people for the effects of a bad system?

It's a great question.

It's a great question.

Is it a contradiction?

Well, it's a tricky one, so let's see if we can't

puzzle it out together. Looking forward to your feedback, these are not these are not

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