Hi everybody. This is Against Everyone with Connor Habib. Before I start this episode with the amazing musician and writer and activist and artist Amanda Palmer, I wanted to tell you about something that is really important to both me and Amanda, which is Patreon. My podcast is fully and exclusively really funded by Patreon, and it's patreon.com forward

slash Connor Hibb. And I know Amanda also makes her living through Patreon, patreon.com

forward slash Amanda Palmer. If you do know what Patreon is and you have not supported the show yet or supported Amanda,

please just pause right now and go to patreon.com forward slash Connor Habib and or and

Patreon.com forward slash Amanda Palmer and support our efforts.

If you don't know what Patreon is, basically, it's a way that I can make

the show and be supported financially by the people who love it, who listen to it, who are inspired by

it. Amanda has taught me so much about reaching out and asking for people to support the art that they

love to contribute to it and to be part of the mission. My mission statement for against everyone

with Connor Bebe is to have a space for big talk. In other words, not small talk. I think

a lot of our lives are consumed by small talk,

and we end up distracting ourselves or even sort of deflecting big issues, big talk, the things that I go into on this show,

which is complex philosophical, spiritual, and political ideas, but presented in an engaging and accessible way.

On this show, if you are new to it, I go really deep.

So some episodes include me doing mystical experiments with comedian Pete Holmes,

talking death and psychoanalysis with mortician Caitlin Doty, investigating

bodily autonomy, consent, and freedom with a Muslim feminist writer Mona El Tawai,

or just discussing music and politics with Billy Bragg.

But in each case, it's a deep dive and we take our time and we really get into it.

I've been on so many other

people's podcasts and while I've enjoyed a lot of them what I often found is

just when we are starting to get to the deep stuff, the really potent stuff,

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