You're listening to, atheistically speaking. I'm going to Hey everyone. Welcome to atheistically speaking episode 45 with your host

Thomas Smith. Okay well we've been on quite a streak lately of great guests, very in-depth and sort of intellectually kind of challenging topics.

So I thought I'd dumb it down this week now.

But I also have been talking to my to my you know premium

Patreon listeners kind of engaging in a bit of a dialogue about the show and

stuff and and and some people said that they dialogue about the show and stuff.

And some people said that the thing they like best

is just solo episodes where, you know,

like for example when Seth Andrews, a lot of times he'll he'll talk a while and they they

said they like that sort of thing I also said I'm I it's not like I want to govern this

show by a committee or just you know populism like I want to do whatever

the most people is going to like. Of course I want to make a show that people are

going to like but I also I've recognized kind of the dilemma of when you're online and sorry for my

patrons who've already kind of heard this but just to bring everybody up to

speed when you're putting out content it's just to bring everybody up to speed.

When you're putting out content,

it's really interesting.

When you get comments, it's virtually impossible

to know how representative they are because you know I have some

odd thousand listeners and I get one or if I get one or two just just you know

put yourself in my position when you get one or two comments saying oh that show suck don't do that you know put yourself in my position when you get one or two comments saying oh that show suck don't do that you know don't do a debate again don't do such and such it's it sounds like

wow I did a horrible show like it really does because even if it's just like two three people you know it's because

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