Good day, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. Today, your ideas, your

dangerous ideas, in conversation with me, Josh Steps, for a special episode of uncomfortable

conversations where we're doing a live Zoom and you get to ask the questions yourself. If you

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Oh, here we are. Look, I can see a video of myself.

Hey, everybody.

Just giving a little introductory spiel to people who are listening to the podcast version of this.

And we'll hopefully get something out of your insightful questions and our delightful banter.

I don't want this show to just be me talking with galaxy-brained individuals

about some of the most important issues of our time. I also want to incorporate some kind of

connection with the audience itself. I know lots of you have lots of interesting ideas,

lots of interesting questions. So let's get stuck in and have a chat. As always, if you want

to be alerted to watch these events live as they go out on Zoom, Uncomfortable Conversations is the place on Substack. That's Substack.com slash uncomfortable conversations. You don't need to pay in order to watch live. If you're a subscriber, you'll just receive email alerts about this and all kinds of other goodies. Let's get stuck in. Who have we got?

First, my trusty producer, Dave, is going to patch people through.

So let's select somebody, Dave, and see how we go.

If you're unmuted, then that means go ahead.

I think that's you, Ryan.

Great.

Okay, I'll jump right into it.

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