Are we yes? Where are we here? Why are we here not entirely clear?

We are misfits thrust into existence by random chance with no hints at all

as to how we're supposed to make sense of it all.

It's immensely bizarre. Here we are.

Hello everybody and welcome to the here we are podcast.

I have a very special return guest coming back on the show today for his

third time on here we are and yeah, and he did one of my

one of my stand-up science or did you do two stand-up science shows?

Yes, one. Just one. It was so amazing for both of us that it felt like two.

Well, it was it was an unusual show because the other academic was just kind of going through

some personal issue. Yeah, there's a lot of I felt like we we earned our our therapy

ally credit that night. I mean it was fun to hear or talk but it did feel a little sort of

strangely personal. Yeah, like this isn't your research. This is just your marriage problem.

But one of my favorite guests is back Herman Ponser, everybody. Herman, thanks for coming back

on the show. Thanks for having me sit in and participate in your wonderful class at Duke. I

don't even remember. What was the name of the class again? Oh, it has some arcane. It's a

you know introduction to human evolutionary anthropology or something like that but it's it's just

intro to human evolution basically is the class and it's one of my favorite classes to teach. You

know, that's that's the class that got me tracked on this career. You know, it's kind of I came to

college. I went to Penn State had no idea what I wanted to do but freshman year just had my mind

like blown by a good intro to human F class and man, you know, so like to be able to to recreate

that on the other side of the of the room as the professor every year. I love it. I absolutely love

...