Welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast. My name is Caleb. And today we have our full panel. I didn't

introduce everybody last episode. Nor did you say that we were sort of quasi-officially in our new

studio that we've been talking about for a year. That's right. Those kind of things just flew out of my

mind as we began the show. So I'll do it today. I am joined by Dr. Roder Rosenblatt, Scott Keith and

Adam Francisco. You may recognize this as the original, the regular cast of the Thinking

Fellows. The year has kind of stabilized for everybody. The holiday is over, the craziness that

was October for 1517, and here we still stand is done. All of the traveling that happened

this fall and during the summer

is all done. And we kind of have that normal springtime again. It's called classes in session.

Yeah, everybody's teaching right now. So we can all kind of try to find a time where nobody's in class

and come together, which is what we're doing right now. You may notice

an audio difference. We haven't recorded on our normal recording equipment since August because

we used to record in Dr. Keith's garage. And then he messed it all up. And then he moved away to the

mountains in Big Bear. And when he did that, we lost our recording place. And

in the meantime, we had to use the mobile rig at my office or when we were traveling or wherever we

could do it. And the mobile rig certainly isn't shoddy auto, audio quality at all. You can just

sometimes tell what kind of room we're in because of various types of echo

or there's no cough buttons on that rig most of the time. So sometimes I do my best to edit that out,

but you know, you can only do so much. So we're just glad to be back. This is the normal stuff.

We get to sit down. We actually get to drink some coffee and some whiskey on a nice stable

platform now.

The recording table that we have is bigger than ever, which is really nice. We can actually

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