Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast live stream number 82. Make note 82 is not a perfect

square. It's not prime. It's not special in any way except for it's being so darn

unspecial. But the episode is going to be great.

It's been a busy week here for us and in the world, but as a result of the business

in our lives, we're going to do more riffing today than perhaps we often do. But first

a few announcements, a little bit about where we're going today, one ad, and then we'll

jump into it. Tomorrow is the monthly private Q&A that we have over at my Patreon from

11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Pacific time. Please consider joining us. And before next week's live stream,

we'll have his first, the first of his two conversations that he has monthly at his

Patreon. So consider joining us there. We are, we are going to talk about the state of

the discourse, right today, the how, how it is that conversations are happening in the

media and in the name of science. And of course, this is a topic that we come back to reliably.

But both you and I had some framings for what it is that we're seeing that that I think

are at least at least new to us. I'm not sure if they're, they're new, although I think

yours is a very good chance of being so. Before we launch into that though, we have, we

have one, one ad with which to pay the rent today. So public goods is a company that aims

to be your new everything store. It can be your one stop shop for high quality everyday

essentials, all made from carefully sourced ingredients and available at an affordable price.

Public goods has toilet paper and shampoo, all purpose cleanser, conditioner, coffee, avocado

oil, they even have a quirkier niche items like chocolate covered almonds, which we got

in our first shipment. And I particularly like those. And they were just different from

the rest of what they have on offer. Public goods cares about sustainability and health,

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