You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this of 114. I'm your host Thomas Smith.

All right, well, how about that last episode, huh?

Got a lot to talk about.

And it does stem from the last episode.

A minor shitstorm did a brew from that.

Not a category five or anything, but but just but there's enough sort of legitimate

criticism mixed in with somewhat I think is some unfair criticism and so maybe

some difference in where people are coming from that actually I do

want to address that but I want to say okay something like half this episode might

be self-reflecting kind of meta-analysis of what I'm doing here. It's a little bit

self-referential and it's something I don't I'm very hesitant to do except that I've had a lot of

thoughts about this I think I a lot of thoughts about this. I think I have some

interesting thoughts about it and also I want to highlight some of the very

worthwhile concerns that people had. But if you don't want to hear me talk about

what I'm trying to do here and and reflect on criticism all that if that's just not something you're interested in no hard feelings but don't miss the latter half of the episode wherein I have two incredibly fascinating and compelling

voicemail messages. They're actually both recordings sent to me so they're actually pretty long,

but that's good because they're they're

fantastic I don't want you to miss those so if nothing else don't miss those

they started about 26 minutes 40 seconds so first thing to say as with all shitstorms major and minor is it comes with

the difficult task of trying to evaluate okay what percentage of my audience is this?

Because I have heard from plenty of people who saw what I was trying to do with

that episode and enjoyed it for what it was despite the fact that they were probably

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