You're listening to serious inquiries only. I'm your host Thomas Smith.

And you may have noticed that I was off last week. Sorry about that. It's hectic these days.

I think I may be able to do a makeup episode here because I have a lot to get to.

We'll see how that goes though, play it by ear, but thanks for being understanding.

Thanks to everybody who supports and listens and recognizes that having a newborn, especially

when it's the second child, is challenging, to say the least.

But so much to talk about today, I'm really excited and of course the main issue I think what I've made the title of the episode is about changing my mind on something pretty major and given that we live in such a polarized environment, one of the major themes and questions I have and things I talk about on the show is, you know, what actually does change people's minds?

And I realize like this is a topic that on one hand

it's not a big deal on another hand I mean it is it is pretty big decision for me, I think, and it's something that, you know, I guess people probably rarely

change their mind on, and changing your mind on something at all is an interesting thing to look at.

So with that said, let's talk about my son's penis, huh?

Yeah, it's a, you didn't know I was going that way, did you?

Uh, I'm going to talk about circumcision and I can use a

voicemail. Turns out I had somebody who was very interested in this very issue. I was already

thinking about talking about it just for the mind-changing aspect. very voicemail that asks the question so I think I'll go ahead and play that use that as a

launching point. Hey Thomas this is Nick from California patron it's probably the

most personal question you'll ever be asked and it's not about you.

Did you circumcise your male child?

I'm asking that because we have actually mirror

each other's life circumstances.

I had my daughter slightly before you had your daughter and now I'm having a son slightly after your having your son.

So we have that in common. We both had a female child now having a male child. I'm an atheist. I am circumcised.

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