Hello, search engine listeners.

An announcement before we start the show, we are hosting our first ever finders salon in New York City on March 20th.

What's the salon?

That's a question I've been asking myself ever since I wrote on a website that finders are highest paid tier of listeners that people I would least like to disappoint would be invited to one, an exclusive

one that I was going to host. So what's the salon? Well, I finally looked it up. It turns out

that in the 19th century in Paris, when people wanted to discuss the ideas of the day, sometimes

they'd meet at somebody's house and discuss those ideas. It was like a book club, but without a book,

everybody was pretending to have read. It was like a podcast, except nobody recorded it. Trees falling soundlessly in the forest. What is our salon going to be? If you're a finder, you get to find out. Here's what I can promise. It's not a podcast live show where I'm on stage laughing like a stupid chipmunk, and it won't be big. It will be a small, intimate group, we'll meet somewhere interesting. There will be cheese, there'll be wine, and yes, you can bring a friend. If you want to join us for our inaugural salon, in which we will definitively answer together the question, what is a salon? Join us in New York City on March 20th. If you are now or at any point

in the past, if you have been a finder, you will have gotten an email inviting you. If you are not a

finder, and if you would like to become one, if you join by February 14th, Valentine's Day,

you will get an email invitation to our first ever salon. You can join by going to search engine.

Show, signing up for incognito mode and choosing Finder. All right, after these ads, our show this week.

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