I'm with Megan Murphy again, everybody. Welcome back to Walkins. Welcome. So good to see you.

Hi, good to see you. Welcome to Austin. Thank you. What are you doing here, by the way?

Hanging around. Are you? You're just hanging out? Well, because I was just in London for the

Battle of Ideas Festival. And it was your birthday. And it was my B-day, so I've... Should I say how old I am?

You don't have to. I kind of always want to because I feel like, first of all, people think I'm a lot younger, so I like to brag about how old I am. And second of all, the Internet says that I'm two years older than I actually am, so I like to correct the record. I don't know what. Like if you Google me, it says I'm 48.

So now it'll probably say that I'm 49 if they actually, if the internet. Did you just turn 47? I turned 46. Oh, okay. Yeah. Isn't that weird? I don't know how the internet came up with that. But I was coming back from London and the just all the flights back to Porta Verda, which is where I fly into, were awful and they had awful layovers.

And I was like, okay, I'm just going to go through Austin. And at least

I know people here and it'll be fun. And I'm not going to like spend 11 hours in Denver or

San Francisco. Instead, you'll spend four days here. Getting fat.

That's what you do in Austin.

That's a plan.

What were you doing in Turf Island?

Yeah, so they do the Battle of Ideas Festival, which was amazing.

It's an amazing festival.

And huge.

Like, it's so well attended.

Was Andrew Gold there?

If he was, I didn't see him, but he may have been. I was on a panel with Andrew Doyle, which was awesome. Uh-huh. He was just here. And... Just in that very chair. Oh, really? Oh, nice. I love him. I love him, too. He's so brilliant. He's brilliant and he's like such a nice person.

Yeah.

I really like him a lot.

Yeah.

I appreciate him a lot.

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