Oh boy, oh boy. What do we have going on today? I'm not going to bury the lead, huh?

No, I'm so excited. So, Noam Chomsky. I mean, Noam Chomsky, we're going to talk to him today.

I got to say I'm nervous. I'm nervous. I don't get nervous often, but I'm nervous.

Really? Yeah, I mean, you know, this is a guy who, basically, one of my idols,

one of my intellectual heroes, for sure. And he would probably be mortified to have me say that

because I'm a guy who makes fart noises. I'm sure he sees you as much more than that, Kyle,

as we all do. I don't see myself much more than that, so I don't know why he would.

But yeah, so obviously there's a million things I could say. I mean, what I want to do is I want

to tell you the story of the first time I actually interacted with him. And a lot of people have

a similar story because apparently he answers emails from everybody. Yes. Incredible.

Incredible. All day, he'll sit there and respond to emails from random people across the country,

across the world. And that alone puts them in like, you know, a league of his own, because I don't

know anybody else who does that. That makes me actually, it makes me feel a little bit guilty.

Oh, I do. I'm the biggest piece of shit on the planet. I don't answer anything.

Well, and the reason, personally, that I've come to not really respond is frankly because I'm

thin-skinned. And like, I can't handle the possibility that there may be like super-negative

shit in there. So I just sort of like wall myself off from all of it. Yeah. You know, I'm the same

as you. I don't know if that's the reason why I do it. I think I don't do it because

it's, it is like, it sounds weird to say, but it's almost like emotional taxation. If you,

the more people you invite in your life and the more people you're interacting with on a regular

basis, it's like you develop relationships. And then you care about them. They care about you. And

it's like, you can only max out a certain number. Yeah. And once you hit a certain point of being

...