You made it weird. You made it weird. What's happening weird? This is John Verveki. Who is John

Verveke? If you don't know. I didn't know. I was introduced to him by my

friend James, who I love very dearly, and he said, John, excuse me, John. It's one of those

interesting and brilliant philosophers and thinkers that he's ever encountered. And that was enough. I was

like, okay. He's all about meaning, finding and making meaning

and recovering from the meaning crisis that I think we can all feel so many times in our

lives a lack of meaning, human beings need meaning, and that is his trade. He has a new book

called Awakening from the Meaning Crisis. It is available now, wherever you, whomever you get your books. And you can also

check them out on YouTube. I listened to a series of his lectures on YouTube and I really,

really enjoyed them as you are about to hear me gush and expound upon with him in this conversation.

So I hope you enjoy. Not much to plug up top for me other than coming up. November

21st is my next Largo show here in Los Angeles. Always fun. That's where I try my new jokes and do

some of the new hour favorites that I'm love. It's so fun. It's the best show and the best time. Val always

comes with me. We have incredible

guests. We have music. So the next one is on November 21st in LA, followed by Indianapolis,

Seattle, Portland on December 20th. We are shooting that for a special. So get tickets to the late

show. Early show is sold out in Portland, December 20th. December 21st is Eugene, Oregon that's sold out, and then Phoenix, Arizona.

All of those are available on petehomes.com, and we will be adding more dates shortly.

In the meantime, enjoy this chat with the brilliant, engaging, the wise, the fun.

John Bravaki, get into it.

See, I've been listening to you, and I love you.

I think you're fantastic.

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