Hey folks, welcome back.

This is Andy with Elliot.

Hey, y'all.

And this is the Poor Prol's Almanac.

We are starting up a new series in this episode. So you guys are in for some really interesting conversations. For those of you that are new, if you want to support what we're doing, you can go check us out on Patreon. We also have an Instagram, Facebook, and a Discord. So if you'd like to chat with us and other like-minded folks, go check out the Discord.

This new series is going to be a little bit different than what we've done in the past.

We're going to be talking with a bunch of experts in various fields, and we're going to

kind of pair those up in a unique way.

This is all framed around the series title, The Conversation, and it's considered a social

gathering held by the learned or art society for conversation and discussion, especially

about the arts, literature, medicine, and science.

This term has been around for a couple hundred years.

It's been understood as a way for people to learn new things through conversations with

specialists, and it's usually through a mixed audience, so a mix of amateurs and experts,

males and females.

The idea was to give two-way interactions for participants, experiments, demonstrations, displays of equipment, and the exhibition of specimens of various animals.

So this was traditionally used as a tool to make science and the arts and all of these things more accessible to people that otherwise might not be aware of them or not, you know, dismissive of new knowledge

because of the fact that it flies in the face of something they might have otherwise thought.

It sounds like show and tell.

A little bit, yeah.

The idea was to bring everyone together to understand some of these things that are common goods,

whether, again, that's through medicine or just

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