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In the 1930s, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed the nation through a series of radio

broadcasts known as the Fire Side Chats. His aim was to reassure the common man that our society

would recover from its troubled times. Well, we're far from 1930 and I deal with a different kind of

fire. For a new era of worldly frustration, we offer a fresh conversation. I'm Greg Karlwood

on the Hire Side Chats. Hallelujah and hello, Hire Side Chats. Congratulations on making it through

another day in the simulation. No, the game's not over yet. And what a game it is. In fact,

you can drive yourself crazy trying to understand this weird reality we find ourselves in.

But even more surprising is the fact that most people float through the whole thing without

giving it much thought at all. Operating on the assumption that for the most part, it's all settled

science. When in reality, the mainstream models are so full of number fudges, glossed over gaps,

uninspiring assumptions, and completely different scales when it comes to conventional physics and

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