Good evening, good evening. Oh my God, it's Friday. The 13th of June 2025. Oh, the Knight's Templar, 12th century. That's where it all comes from, apparently. So welcome to your Friday night live. And, yes, the only fan noises should be coming from you, the lovely audience.

Ah, it's beginning to get quieter.

Excellent.

All right.

So I hope you're having an interesting week. An interesting week is certainly being happening to everyone, particularly those of our friends in America.

So how can I help you?

I suppose given the direness of the situation,

it is probably worth me breaking a ruler or two

and being willing to talk politics if you like,

or geopolitics or war, or anything like that.

I can certainly help if you like.

And if you have questions or comments

or anything you want to talk about,

I am all ears ears i am all yours

i did a show today gosh what a what a day of work so um i went this morning to work on my

novel which i finished a chapter 11, about 45,000 words.

It's going to be a long one, though.

I'll tell you that.

And then I went for an hour, almost two-hour hike, my hour-half, hour-forty hike,

where I answered a challenging question from a listener about how moral philosophy is different from

online sex work. Not something I was sure I was going to have to do in my life as a whole,

but I guess some people have questions. I came back, spent some time with the old fam.

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