Hey, what's up? This is the free version. The sort of teaser version for those of you who have not signed up as a paying subscriber to tangentially speaking or sent me a simple email or text saying, let me in, dude, can't afford it or whatever. You don't need to tell me a story.

You don't need to be ashamed. You don't need to do anything. If you would like to listen to the

full version of these things and the financial option is not right for you, all you got to do is

reach out and let me know. You can do that by

contacting me through Substack or sending me an email to that Chris Ryan at gmail.com. And I will

comp you for a year. And maybe when that runs out, you'll say, hey, I've been listening to this

dude for a year now. On a comp. Maybe I'll send

him some money this time. Hey, if you got it, if you don't got it, just get back in touch

with me a year for now and say, still broke, still interested, and I'll just re-up,

assuming I'm still alive. If I'm not alive, that's a whole different scenario, in which case I can't really help you.

But this episode, I talk about AI a lot.

I talk about our relationship with AI, how it relates to previous technological advances, in air quotes,

like plastic, the internet. I think those are the main ones I talk about. And then I talk about

relationship issues, being like a new pair of shoes and learning to distinguish between the different kinds of pain

that may result in a new pair of shoes. That's a very important distinction.

Anyway, sorry for this weird thing. If you're hearing this, it means there's something, there's a glitch in the matrix.

And all you got to do is reach out and say, Chris, let me in.

Here's the email I use on Substack.

And I will comp you.

Or if you've got some extra money lying around, please consider dropping some of it in the kitty.

Thank you.

Sending lots of love to you wherever you are.

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