Hello, everyone. I'm Stephen West. This is philosophize this. How y'all doing? Howdy.

Thank you to everybody that supports the show on Patreon. I could never do this without you.

That said, look, I never make this portion of the show about me, but just this once I feel like I need to.

For the last month or so in my life, I've been kind of obsessed with a pretty strange hobby,

all told. And look, the way that you know it's a really good hobby is because it doesn't,

you know, forward your position in the world. It doesn't make any money. It is do it for the love

of the thing, right? I love driving traffic to Amazon. Okay, I have this thing where I get a

notification on my phone every time somebody's clicked through and just all month long on like the

front left leg in my pocket, it's just been, and I know every time I feel that on my leg, I'm like,

that's Amazon right there. It's real, you know, funny story. The other day, I was feeling kind of

lightheaded. So I went to the doctor just to be safe and they didn't MRI and turns out my phone is

buzzed on my leg in that one spot so many times in the last 30 days. I've actually developed a

benign cyst underneath the surface of my leg. I need to have it surgery removed. Nothing to be

worried about. I'll be in and out of the hospital. But if you're thinking of me and you're buying

something from Amazon anyway, consider going through my banner. I mean, it doesn't support me,

but I do get a notification and a slight dose of radiation. So thanks for doing that.

Today's episode is part four in a series on the Frankfurt School. I hope you love the show today.

So it's taken me a while to figure out exactly where I want to go with the rest of the Frankfurt

School series. You know, just still in the work of one thinker down into a few episodes as

impossible enough when you have a whole group of people, it becomes exponentially more difficult.

But I think I found a way. And I want to start the show today by talking about a capitalist

response to all this. It's a response that over the years talking to people seems to be a common

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