Hello, SFIA audio listeners. In this month's Nebula exclusive, Big Alien Theory,

we're asking the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge.

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We were going to go ahead and get started at 2 o'clock, and that will be when we get formally

started, although again, we're running this entire thing pretty informally.

This is our first live stream chat doing this.

We plan to do one of these each month towards the end of things.

Probably not always on the last day of the month, but maybe the last Sunday and so forth.

Our big focus is going to be on the actual episodes in the previous month.

And then as we get more experience with this, we might bring on guests and so forth and

see what goes with that.

But I thought for this very first session, while we get used to how to

use the software, we would go ahead and just go solo and just do questions. Now, again, normally

we'll be focusing on what we are covering the previous month and the schedule for the next month.

But for this time, Wall Street is a bit of an AMA or ask me anything

type situation. We will be going ahead and running this afterwards as a video people can watch

later on, but I will probably take it down and edit out all the various bits of me stuttering

and not knowing what's going on. And of course, it's no surprise with a piece of new technology.

Anything that is audio-visual, you're going to have problems.

Alright.

So we'll go ahead and start with questions.

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