I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekignano show.

After a little bit of a break, Thomas is back.

How are you doing, Thomas?

I'm very well.

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to collaborate on some stuff

before the big Portland basket weaving event.

And this is an important subject area. I mean, for just on its own terms,

but it dovetails rather splendidly and kind of like indexes with the long form stuff I'm

working on. And it's especially timely with kind of the trajectory of and trying to steer things at least in our kind of intellectual

circles like not I don't like vanity or or just because I've got a hobbyist interest in this stuff

but it's it's fundamentally important and I'll get into that as we roll out this subject.

Yeah our our buddy Mr. Rimbo,

who was on the episode

where you were, you guys were talking

about being on the ground at the DNC.

He's the one who recommended this.

So shout out to him and everything.

So, um,

he's an essential, he's an essential

part of film land fiction, even though he's, even though he's not truly local. And he's like an essential part of like my entourage. Like he's, he's, uh, he's going to be hitting Portland with me, which is awesome. Yeah. When you said how much you guys hung out and everything i figured he was local to you and then when

he told me where he was from i was like holy shit no he's a good dude and he he's built a fair

on a vacation time so he traveled a fair amount and i'm i'm lucky he's he likes chicago and like a lot

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