Good evening, everybody. Hey, Pinch Punch First Day of the Month. And it is Friday night

live. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. Welcome, welcome. Thank you for dropping by tonight.

We have much to chat about, most of which, of course, I hope, is generated by you because I'm doing

my hair. I'm doing a new series called Wrestling with the Dead,

wherein I take impactful quotes that hit me hard from philosophers who are dead,

so you've got the whole point of their work.

There's nothing that they're adding.

And I've done Roger Scruton, I've done Democritus and I've done

Talis, the latter

to ancient Greek philosophers

and things that I

found that really hit me hard

over the years. Many years ago

my brother got me a book

on great thinkers

and it was like a massive book

of like great quotes from great thinkers,

which I used to think about and read about a lot.

I used to read it a lot.

Like you know how you pick up your tablet back then?

I'd pick up this massive tome and work through it.

And of course, I remember a bunch of stuff from it.

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