Hello, and welcome to Overthink.

The podcast where two friends who are also professors share philosophical perspectives on all manner of things.

I'm David Pena Guzman. And I'm Ellie Anderson. And, you know, David, we just started this episode

like sounding all professional and stuff because we are in fact recording in a real live podcast

studio, not in our closets on Zoom. But wow, it has been a morning.

A morning from hell.

So we have been struggling with this fancy equipment in a recording studio in the middle of the Pagall neighborhood in Paris.

We just burnt about two hours battling with technology that we don't understand, but

Ellie kind of does much better than me.

So thanks Ellie for finally getting it to work.

And thanks to our audio editor, Aaron, for like hopping on a last minute Zoom call to help us.

Because in short, this is an anti-advertisement for Studiomatique in Paris.

We're going to burn them.

They just like had somebody open the door for us for the studio,

taught us nothing about how to use this technology.

Again, we're philosophy professors.

We are not professional audio people.

So yeah, we thought we were going to start recording like two hours ago,

and we didn't. And we were hoping that all of the audio now is going to be fine. Okay,

we'll get into it, though. David, take a breather. I need a whole yoga class right now.

I know, David was so stressed out. Which is so rare for me. Oh, my God. Well, you know, I'm actually a little nervous about this episode topic, too, in addition to the stressful situation, because it's such a hot topic right now and we're learning more about it every day. And so I'm super excited, but I've also been a little nervous about it because there's

tons of scientific literature on the topic, which we're not going to be able to do justice to.

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