Well, hey, cozy robots, the fancy town countdown is just not going to happen.

Click in the button and click in the button, and it's not starting, but I can see we got

folks here already.

So it's good to see you all.

Hey, I'm Mike McCarr, welcome to the Cozier Robot Show, a program about empathetic skepticism.

This is a place where we ask our deepest, most burning questions about life and living,

and how to build the kind of world that we'd all like to live in together.

And this week, by popular demand, we have a really special show plan for you.

I don't know if I'm excited or terrified or both, but back from way back in the early

days of the program called Ask Science Mike, the show I hosted before this one.

We used to do episodes called After Dark episodes.

They were questions about taboo topics like sex, sexuality, drugs, alcohol, just the kind

of things you're usually afraid to talk about, and those are the questions we're going

to explore together tonight.

And that serves not only as a reminder and an expectation set, but also kind of a warning.

If you're watching with people who you maybe don't, you don't want to have those conversations

with right now, maybe you're watching with small children or if those conversations could

be triggering for you, we just want to give you a chance to know that's what the show

is about tonight.

And we got so many questions sent in when we announced we were doing After Dark show.

I know a lot of people are interested.

So we're going to explore that together.

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