We're live now on the conversations that matter podcast. Some people are telling me in the

chat. I haven't even said a word yet and people are saying that YouTube is already for those streaming on YouTube but flagging this video for

misinformation so I'm not sure what that would be about maybe a certain virus that could be which I don't really

plan to get into details on but I guess it was in one of my tags or something and

so they've decided they're going to preemptively warn all of you.

Well, welcome to, I guess, a very dangerous podcast

with views that you're not supposed to hear, according to YouTube.

We'll get through it though.

We will survive. And we're in this together right?

We heard that for years and I still believe it. I still believe that we're in this together.

So anyway this is a little bit of an informal podcast. I did not announce this. I was just thinking

about the fact that I only did one podcast so far this week and there's a reason for that I've been

pretty busy with a bunch of things some medical things and then and don't worry I'm

okay everyone's okay there's no problems that are life

threatening or anything like that but but I spent some time this week on the road

and in doctor's offices and in the time I did have to be at home I wanted to spend really thinking about some speeches that I'm going to be giving and one of them I mean you could say I got carried

away but I've been I think it's important I've been researching classical liberalism

and trying to understand it better and brushing up on this

week I was reading some old philosophers like John Locke and Enlightenment philosophers really, Thomas Hobbs, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and trying

to understand what changes took place, what transitioned us from a more medieval society and more

Christian civilization really to the society that we exist in today.

And this is of course something I had opinions on before last week,

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