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I don't know the way.

I don't know what to think.

I don't know what to say.

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That's okay.

I don't know anything.

Hey there, welcome to Factually.

I'm Adam Conover.

I am thrilled to have you with me on the show again this week.

And, you know, we talk on this show.

But what's happening in the world,

I talk to experts, I talk to scholars, I talk to journalists, people like that. And, you know what,

a lot of them are pretty depressing. We end up discussing, you know, the failures of humanity,

our inability to cooperate, to care for each other, to improve the world around us, or to, you know,

solve any of our longstanding

social problems in a durable way that doesn't result in a media backsliding 50 to 70 years

later, you know, a lot of bad shit. So often humanity fails to do good things. But you know,

to say the obvious, there are still many good things about humanity.

And one of them is our endless quest to understand the universe around us. You know, we do in fact

live in an unfeeling chaotic void, but we can also look into that void and say, what the

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