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Hey, this is your partially examined life nightcap reporting this on January 27, 2023.

How you guys doing?

Ah, well enough. I'm worn out. It's a very long, long, long, long, long week. Dylan is apparently

dealing with water in his basement. So he's not going to be here today. I was especially

actually curious to find out from him. We were back in the mode of prepping for eastern philosophy

and I didn't realize not only of course was he not in the the shrung to I should be able to use

the new pronunciations without exaggerate the shrung to twang to as we call it at the time,

but then was also not of the confucius, even though of course, you know, that was much more recent.

So I guess be his first Chinese philosophy episode, but it's definitely a different sort of experience.

How are you guys? Are you back in the mode? I haven't even started reading it yet. Oh, come now, come now.

Where is this recording? There's two days. No, three days. Well, that's right, because we have it extra

one day. It's not Sunday morning. It's Monday afternoon. I mean weekends are really the only time I

can do this kind of stuff anymore. And I got to work this weekend and it's going to be rough.

But anyway, did you guys a little relisten to the trunks who in the confucius? I got to get trunks

who in half the confucius and the confucius is pretty good. Yeah. I'd like that stuff about the

tokeful. It's okay. And Burke. So we picked this philosophical translation of the Lao Tzu that we're

about to do. And it's the same person Roger T. Ames that did the confucius that we did before.

And I just reading the like introductory material, which is a good 60 pages at least,

is much more energy is going into that than actually reading the text so far.

But I don't feel like it's skippable. Oh, really? There's like a three page description,

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