Come on, don't make me do the double tap.

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Yo, yo, yo.

Hello, hello, everybody.

Hope you're doing well.

Saturday.

Play day, but not for philosophers, because every day is play day when you're working on philosophy.

November 1st, 2025.

Hope you're doing well as we sail into our 21st year as a philosophy show. 21st year. Yes,

that's right at the end of this year. Finally, freedom and can have a drink. Finally.

So we're looking forward to that. All right. I have a topic. You know, sometimes you have a

conversation so intense that you can't sleep. And I had a call yesterday. This was the Halloween

show. And if you can struggle through my Tim Curry impression, you can get to a very interesting

conversation after the what's the worst thing philosophy's ever taught you,

which is a conversation about certainty. And it was chat us, interrupt us, because we were just finally getting to the juicy stuff when, sadly, as we began examining the caller's history and emotional motivations for his radical skepticism.

Oh, what a shame. He just had to go. It was very unfortunate. The timing, of course,

was tragic, not entirely unpredictable, but. And I've spent today, I've spent today, going through in my mind how to deal with the problem

of radical skepticism, which is a huge problem. Radical skepticism is a brain virus that turns the

world over to evil doers. Evil doers are certain, sociopaths are certain, and if we cannot be

certain, we lose. We lose everything.

Honestly, we end up with holes in her heads plowed under in a ditch of totalitarianism.

So it's a pretty, pretty big stakes that we've got going on here. So I had been racking my brain.

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