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Welcome to rationally speaking, the podcast where we explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense.

I'm your host, Massimo Pellucci, and with me, as always, is my co-host Julia Galev.

Actually, Julia is on the other coast, but whatever, with me in some sense.

With you and spirit, Massimo.

That's right. Julia, what are we going to talk about today?

And I do like how you say with you as always. What are we going to talk about today? And I do like how you say with you as always.

What are we going to talk about today?

Well, today Massimo, we're going to try and experiment.

And instead of running the episode with a particular topic preset for you and I to discuss

or with a particular guest who we're going to chat with. We're just going to

go in freestyle, so to speak, and just chat about the various things that we've been thinking

about or reading about or talking to people about lately that maybe like don't fit into a

particular episode topic framework themselves, but are totally worth talking about and we, you know, want to hear each other's thoughts. So, so that's

the very unstructured plan for today's freestyle episode. And I guess I will, I will invite you

to start by just telling me anything that you've like encountered or I don't know read or thought about recently

that we could talk about.

So this is in other words an exercise in self-confidence more than usual, right?

So we're confident that without having any preparation whatsoever basically,, no checking notes and all that sort of stuff,

we can actually talk for 40 minutes about interesting things.

I guess we'll see.

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