Hey, hey, hey, everybody.

I'm only new freemen on this glorious Saturday afternoon.

Had a nice lengthy hike with my daughter.

I hope you're out there, or at least get to go out there and enjoy nature, the beauty of this glorious world,

fresh air, and all kinds of lovely stuff.

Hello, hello.

Just checking on the audio.

So I have topics. I also have not just vocal cords, but one functioning ear, one and a half ears. I'm not quite Brian Wilson,

but I ain't quite stereo. So if there are things that you want to discuss, questions, criticisms,

oppositions, suggestions for Haggis style armpit curling championships, I'm all ears.

If you want to request a talk, you can pop into my eardrums, but I certainly have a topic to

start with, and I'll just give a moment

here to see if anybody's open to tickling the TCPIP of the brainternet. All right. Yeah, it's a

funny thing. So philosophy is about humility, and it is about knowing that you don't know anything

until it is rationally consistent and empirically verifiable.

And it's a funny thing.

You know, I always hesitate with this kind of stuff because it can be misinterpreted.

But Lord knows, if you're worried about me being misinterpreted, then you're going to be forever a galley slave of the midwits.

So we're just going to go ahead. So, you know, just for those of you who don't know, maybe you're kind of be forever a galley slave of the midwits. So we're just going to go ahead.

So, you know, just for those of you who don't know, maybe you're kind of new to this

conversation, I'm going to give you a little bit of my resume. So I got into philosophy in my mid-teens,

which is, well, that's a long-ass time ago. It's close to 45 years. It's close to 45 years. I've read thousands of books on

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