I'm putting on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work.

Okay, guys, today I'm going to address a question I get all the time. What the critics call

the world of hats problem. So let me first explain what the world of hats problem is,

and then I'll explain why it's not a

problem. Okay, so there is a thing called TV tropes, which is a website that what it does is it lists

all the different tropes that you see in entertainment, be it movies, TV, books, comics, you name it.

And what they do is there's a lot of, when I say a trope, what I mean is there are certain

things that are resonant that people are familiar with.

You know, there's certain just things that storytellers do that are common.

A lot of them are shorthand to be able to communicate something.

But what the website is really into is sort of playing up, oh, hey, these are all the tropes that you

can recognize and we'll name them and talk about them. And it's just a neat way to sort of

illustrate and show how tropes work. So one of the tropes is called the Planet of Hats.

And it is based off Star Trek. I think Star Trek

is the one that inspired this. And the idea

is how

every week, you know, Star Trek would

travel to new and different worlds. And every

world they visit,

everybody about that world would have

some unique quality.

They would all wear the same hat is the idea.

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