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It's skeptical, it's political, and there is. welcome at today is Wednesday September the 4th recording a little bit early

We're doing that because we want to have a very special guest on and that is Michael Marshall out of the UK and he did not

want to record at 3 in the morning on a Thursday. Yeah, which I thought was rude.

Super rude. Super rude of him. So we had to record on Wednesday morning if anything happens of

great import and note. Yeah we're taking a week off during election

season but we thought it was worthwhile because what

Marsh has to say really does reflect a lot about American politics too.

So we're going to talk to him in a few minutes, but we wanted to talk to you first before we get in anything.

Yeah. On September 21st, we were sort of hinting at this for a while but on September 21st at 8 p.m. Eastern on our YouTube channel and possibly

stream to other places we have to see first I'll have Ian confirm that and we will

have links on our show notes and the shows leading up to it to make sure you have access to all these places.

But on our YouTube channel for sure, we are going to be doing a Humanist For Harris, live stream event.

Now this live stream event is going to be Tom and I, but then also Noah Heath and Eli,

from the scathing atheist, but more importantly, all of us from Citation Needed, the Citation Needed

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