So Matt, I don't know if I know more or less about the sun after that conversation.

I've definitely lost some confidence in my knowledge of the sun, but at the same time I feel like

if I'm sufficiently drunk at a party now I can say some things with seeming confidence.

It's the magnetism guys. It's the you, you're focused on the heat, but magnetism is where it's at.

Yeah, you know, magnetic fields are. but it's magnetism is where it's had.

Yeah, you know, magnetic fields are invisible and mysterious.

In fact, it's the material of the sun that tracks the magnetic fields

that tell us what it's doing,

but what we think it should be doing whether or not it's behaving.

I'm also a little bit more scared of the sun than I was an hour ago.

It's earned some more respect out of you than before.

Yeah, I'm not gonna bad mouth it in case. It's earned some more respect out of you than before.

I'm not gonna bad mouth it in case it's paying attention.

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