Ted Audio Collective Did you ever really feel that you hated the

other? Me personally, I hated her. Yeah, I hated you for thinking that you were

someone else. Hey, and welcome to conversations with people who hate me. I am your host,

Dylan Marin back from an almost two-year hiatus, and I got to say I have

really missed you. So I'm glad to be back. If you're a longtime listener, I am so glad to have

you return, and if you're just tuning in for the very first time, I'm equally thrilled to have

you here. To explain the show's long absence from your feed, there was, as you know, a global pandemic,

but there was also something else. I wrote a book, a book that is actually also called

Conversations with People Who Hate Me, because it's all about this very podcast. In this book,

I retrace my steps through years of making this show, the hundreds of strangers have corresponded

with behind the scenes, the dozens of conversations that you've heard me host publicly, and I distilled

all of that down to 12 things that I've learned from this project. And while the book tells the story

of my process, the mistakes I've made along the way, and the unlikely connections I've made in

spite of them, it's really meant to be a roadmap for you on how to have difficult conversations

of your own. And it's not just with internet strangers, but family members, estranged friends,

similarly-minded folks who you just spar with for one reason or another, or anyone who sees the world

differently from you. I will tell you that Glennon Doyle, the best-selling author of Untamed,

and of whom I am a huge fan, said that this book helped her believe again in the potential goodness

of the internet. Please do not judge me for relaying a compliment about my own book. It was a very big

deal, and you know what, you totally can judge me. You can think whatever you want about me, I welcome it.

Last thing I'll say about the book is that conversations with people who hate me, the book,

comes out on March 29th, 2022, and I am so, so, so excited to finally share this with you,

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