Hey folks, welcome to this very special Dark Horse intervention.

I am, of course, I'm Brett Weinstein.

I'm sitting with James Lindsay, the subject of the intervention.

And I'm, of course, also sitting with Mike Naina.

Welcome to both of you.

I'm feeling like this is a setup.

Well, yeah.

I mean, that's the only way this works.

But in any case, glad to have you here.

Obviously, this is not the usual Dark Horse setup.

We have decided to use AI to render a scene from 1963, and I expect it will look pretty good.

Actually, this is being filmed by Reed Nice Wonder.

I believe that's how he pronounces his name anyway, very generously doing that for us.

And we are here together actually at Freedom Fest, the largest gathering of free minds in the world, I think is how it builds itself.

But in any case, we decided to have this conversation because you, James, have been on the hot seat for, is it months now?

Getting on nine, yeah, nine months.

Nine months.

The baby's ready.

Well, I can imagine that you're feeling back on your heels.

You've taken a tremendous amount of heat, and a lot of it has been very ungenerous to you.

That's true.

And I think you know that Mike and I value you greatly as a friend and as a contributor to the intellectual space.

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