Welcome, everybody. Thank you for having me, Rich. Really cool to be here. You know, I did when I was doing undergrad and grad work, I did teach quite a few student class situations, but I never taught an entire semester. I left the university setting because I really felt

like I could do better doing it autonomously. And here we are at autonomy. So I think Richard has

the right idea about where to go with education. But I've been into and studying philosophy at

various levels and in various ways for about 20 years.

So I'm happy to be here, honored to be here.

I do have some unique takes that I think will be different than what you would get in a traditional legacy university setting.

So hopefully we can get into some of that tonight, kicking it off,

and we're going to get pretty deep. So, you know, jot down your questions. I'm a big fan of

open Q&A at the end. We've done in my Discord, I think we have about 8 or 9,000 in the Discord.

And we've been doing these open Q&As that go sometimes six, ten hours.

So I'm totally used to that.

Very happy to have people ask, you know, lengthy end of lecture Q&As.

So be sure and jot down your questions and I will answer them to the best of my abilities.

You're not going to offend me.

You're not going to, it's not going to bother me if you disagree. If you think I'm wrong about

something, you know, you don't like, we're not going to be talking a whole lot about theism or

any of that tonight. That doesn't really play into tonight's topic. So if you're anti-theist, if you're agnostic, none of that bothers me. It's fine for you to,

you know, have your positions. I'm not going to be coming at you or critiquing your

positions unless you want that, right? So you can request that, sir. I would like you to

request, I would like to request a demolishing on my paradigm. I'm happy to offer that.

If you want that, most people don't really want that. But tonight's going to just be an introduction.

So we're going to look at what is philosophy all about.

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