Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

Let me say officially, welcome to Socrates in the city in Seattle.

Thank you for coming.

Now tonight, as you know, it is my privilege to interview Vladimir Putin tonight.

And this is not because, you know, I approve of him. I'm just

doing my work as a journalist. I just want to give the world a chance to see the goodness in his

heart. And so that's what's happening tonight. And George W., if you're listening, I'm sorry.

There's a lot actually happening tonight. That's happening tonight. I believe President Biden may be

resigning tonight. Did you hear about that? Yeah. And it's not because he's incompetent, it's for other reasons.

That's not true.

That's not true.

But there is a lot going on.

Actually, the most important thing that's happening is tonight a documentary film is coming out.

It's called Letter to the American Church. That's happening tonight. If you're

not aware of that, shame on you. No, it's actually very exciting. I wrote a book and some people

turned it into a documentary film. And right now, it's premiering, but I have to be here. So I

apologize. I can't be there. I want to say, before I forget, thanks to all of you for coming,

and thanks particularly to the Discovery Institute

for not only, yeah, exactly, for not only making this possible,

but for being the Discovery Institute

and for just teeing up brilliant,

genius guests one after the other over the years. I've interviewed so many people from the

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