Good morning everyone. Welcome to another episode here at the Damage Report. Today, of course,

is Thursday and you have launched in this episode having no clue who's going to be joining me as

co-host. Well, we've got a surprise for you. The galaxy brain himself.

Vancouver joins us, Ben. Welcome to the show. Yeah, yeah, I'm glad to be here.

I'm glad to have you here. So, you know, a lot of people are watching the show on Twitch,

almost certainly familiar with your program, which has been a part of TYT now for a little bit,

but for those who might not be familiar with your worktelts a little bit about your show.

What are some of the things that you like to cover? What do you consider sort of like your news be?

Yeah, most definitely. And so on Galaxy Brain, I really like to lean into the title and

pick a few topics and really dive into them deep like with the housing crisis.

We talked about like different policies that people could push forward and the difference

between those and like how to talk to city council members along those lines. And then specifically,

like how does the relationship between a landlord and a tenant like, you know, affect things and

how is that different under a housing cooperative? You know, so we really just deep dive into like

the general theory surrounding an issue and get a little bit meta in talking about things

were more conceptual levels so that people have a framework to understand news when they take it in.

Awesome. And we were talking for the show and I learned that you said you had a master's in a

biosecurity in bioethics, was it? Yeah, biosecurity in bio defense. Yeah, bio defense.

Oh, even more appropriate for the time. So that is, that is both awesome considering the time we're

in, but also do you find yourself worried that that entire field might not exist anymore since

it's now considered sort of partisan to think we should have any security or put up any defense

against these things? Yeah, so basically we have more of the same right now and but more of the

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