Greetings and happy solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza holidays to you.

The followers of this podcast, The Great Simplification.

I wanted to do a brief end of year reflection after the first year of this podcast.

First of all, my team keeps reminding me to tell the listeners that on every

episode and on every, frankly, on the main site, the great simplification.com, there are copious

show notes and references of every episode that we do that my team puts together along with

the scientist or the interviewee. So every fact that is stated here is referenced. So check

that out if you haven't all the way back to episode one. So here we are. After 51 episodes of this podcast. Let me start with some reflections.

One thing I've learned this year is that I like and respect all my guests and they all

offer something to the unfolding story of the human predicament that I call

the coming great simplification.

I don't agree.

In fact, I disagree with all of my guests on something.

And I agree with all of them on something.

Something I feel strongly about is having a diversity of opinions,

but tethered to the fundamental logic of energy, ecology, and human behavior.

So this podcast in many ways is attempted to be an everything bagel,

where we look at lots of different things

and how they interrelate.

And many of you watch my podcast with Thomas Bjorkman.

I think I'm becoming a meta-modern think I try to incorporate multiple ideas into my worldview. We're going to be talking

more about that next year. But it's very fascinating to me to see the viewership of this podcast

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