Hey folks, welcome to the 291th Dark Horse podcast live stream with me, Dr. Brett Weinstein and this lovely person to my left, Dr. Heather Hying. It is late August.

It is late August. It is late August. There's always a sadness about late August.

And a weird feel in the air.

There's just kind of a, it's like a gap.

I don't know what I mean by that, but I feel it as sort of a gap.

Yes.

And anyway.

It makes me miss, you won't have this sense at all but it makes me miss the academic schedule

the academic calendar because there's a this time of year many people are starting anew it is a

it is a formalized moment to start anew and without uh being beholden to an academic schedule

one can just feel the sort of the timer on summer running out without any without being beholden to an academic schedule.

One can just feel the timer on summer running out without anything to promise its replacement.

Well, you know, it's funny.

You say I won't get that because on the one hand, you're right.

You're sort of right.

At Evergreen, I enjoyed the teaching enough that I did anticipate the beginning of a new program and, you know, all of that. But in general, as a student, I sure didn't, and I didn't appreciate

the end of summer, but I so appreciated the break in the horror of schooling that happened during

the summer, that it did have that importance. And maybe that's

why I feel about August the way I do is it's just you feel it slipping away. It's true. That's

true. So we're going to have a fairly short and tight. I don't know if it's going to be tight show today.

We appreciate those of you who are joining us on locals.

As always, please consider joining us there. We had a Q&A this last weekend. We talked about lots

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