You're going to. So hello Matt and Matt and welcome to decoding the academics, decoding academia. Instanciation number good. the coding academia,

instantiation number two.

That's, you know, just French words we sometimes use

and academic parlance. Well, I feel like the pilot has been done the pilot is out there and this is episode

boom. It was commissioned on the basis of how well it was received. Yes, that's accurate and I see that you're

competing with your Zoom background to I have a large set of books here and behind me.

Whereas you've gone for quantity over quality.

My image is ancient tombs of knowledge and you're just like you know an Englishman's parlor where he's got a showbooks for when he's entertaining guests.

Yes, most of those are companies of the Guinness Book of Records of various years.

I really enjoyed those when I was a kid so yeah, have to come around but the fact is we're discussing fake zoom backgrounds and I know that we should have be comparing

for x zoom backgrounds because they're not real map they don't mean anything

no they're not we know they're real. We're not stupid. We know that. It's just an image.

That's right. And to demonstrate that we are not stupid. We're going to focus this week on an academic who it's fair to say

he's been around a very long time, is built up a substantial body of research.

It's now a bit long the tooth, you know,

the young dogs are looking to take them down.

But still, you know, we got a humor

and we got a talk about the how used to be in the old days so it's one

Matthew Bryan look at that

yeah the nice one who the nice one.

The nice one.

And the cool one according to the diagram that somebody made.

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