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Welcome to The Road to Now. Today we have a really special episode.

We, Ben and I are on the Avet Brother tour bus. And, you know, every morning, Scott, Seth,

Joe and I have this little ritual where we all kind of wake up at our own time. Seth wakes up

first and he's out here

reading quietly or writing and then slowly maybe I get up next and just kind of stumble out and

then Scott gets up and then Joe gets up and we all have coffee and we talk and often the conversation

leads into politics or religion or something. we've always uh kind of joked

amongst ourselves that'd be fun to have a a morning coffee show where we just you know we just

drink coffee we don't play any music and uh so that's kind of what this grew out of we're just

going to have a conversation we hope you enjoy it we'd like to thank thank Joe, Scott, and Seth for being a part of it today.

And, you know, it's just going to be a potpourri of different topics. A potpourri. That's the best way to sell it. the link between creativity and madness the link between creativity and like bravado and just the sense

that historic figures oftentimes the ones that are the most heroic have you know

have these flaws in them and and sometimes those flaws make them amazing right in the fact that they

can't they can't just go to bed at night and feel fine about what they're doing even though

everyone else sees them is doing fine so i don't know when you think back about these figures like

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