What's up guys? Happy Friday. Welcome back to the pod. Hope everyone's doing well. I am going to do an episode on how to make friends. I've been promising this one for a while and I actually interviewed a lot of my friends to get some notes on what they thought. But before we get into it, I just want to touch on the events of this week, the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

I think that the prevalence of political violence in America is really scaring me.

It should be scaring everybody.

The whole point of this country is that we can have differing views, but we all can say our views and feel safe. And Ezra Klein wrote a great article

for The New York Times. I encourage you all to go read it. It's a short article. It's titled,

Charlie Kirk was practicing politics the right way. Go read it. I'm just going to read the last

paragraph for you guys. Kirk and I were on different sides of most political arguments.

We were on the same side on the continued possibility of American politics.

It is supposed to be an argument, not a war.

It is supposed to be one with words, not ended with bullets.

I wanted Kirk to be safe for his sake.

But I also wanted him to be safe for mine and for the sake of our larger shared

project.

The same is true for Shapiro, for Hoffman, for Hortman, for Thompson, for Trump, for Pelosi,

for Whitmer.

We are all safe or none of us are.

And, you know, like Klein said in that excerpt that I just read, they were completely opposing

views on everything. But I really

encourage you to go read this article because I think it kind of helped me wrap my head around

how I'm feeling about this moment of American history. And it's complicated and it's scary and I get it.

You know, go read the article. I've been reading a lot online and just trying to process this moment that we're living in. It's, you know go read the article i've been reading a lot online and just trying to process this this moment

that we're living in it's you know i feel there's just this country is i don't even like recognize

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