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makes us mad. It's skeptical. It's political. And there is no welcome, Matt. Today is still Thursday

the 13th that you're listening to this on Thursday, probably the 20th, if seven days

still works. And we are still recording because we record two at once. So I'm still recording

from home. Yeah. And I think it's really funny that today we're going to talk about isolation.

Isolation in your own. On a recording that we are, we are far away from. Yeah, yeah, we read an article.

And Tom read it for patrons.

It's the anti-social century by the, and it's in the Atlantic.

It's by Derek Thompson.

So I want to get this out of the way first.

I don't know who fucking Derek Thompson is.

I hope it's not some fucking hated right wing.

This has happened to us before.

Yeah, where we've read something. This is a good article

with some interesting points and people will be like, that person is the worst. And you're just like,

well, I didn't know that. And also I still think the article's worth contending. I will say he might be,

he might certainly have some ties to the intellectual dark web because he does mention Jonathan

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