How long are you going to keep living like this?

I asked myself this question as I walked to the subway in the knifeishly cold winters

and the weepingly humid summers.

I asked it while standing in Disneyland-caliber lines at Trader Joe's,

where employees barked out crowd control directives and carried

signs on eight-foot poles reading, end of line, as if propping up disembodied heads on pikes.

Hey there, before we get to this brief and extra special extra edition of the podcast. This is a quick reminder that tickets are now

on sale for our co-ed, bigger and better than ever unspeak-easy retreat in New York City, October 11th,

and 12th. This will feature multiple speakers and accommodate more attendees than usual,

but you still get the same small, off-the-record, intimate discussions that you can only get with the unspeak-easy.

Our speakers include John McWhorter, Carol Hoeven, Rob Henderson, Mike Pesca, Peter Moskos,

Alana Newhouse, Andrew Hartz, Lisa Sellen Davis, Ben Appell, and myself.

We're also adding speakers all the time, so you never know who else might be there.

This is a chance to meet and talk with your intellectual heroes, as well as connect with like-minded, and also not so like-minded.

That's the whole point.

Freethinking people from all over. Space is limited, and we're already like-minded. That's the whole point. Free-thinking people from all over.

Space is limited and we're already more than halfway sold out. So please go to the unspeak-easy.com

slash retreats to learn more and to sign up. This is not cheap. I'm not going to lie. We don't do

things cheaply at the unspeak easy. We can't. But I can promise you that there is nothing else like this out there will be in a beautiful space.

We will feed you amazing food, real food, as well as brain food.

And this is a great opportunity to treat yourself in a way that you never have before.

Again, the unspeakeezy.com slash retreats. I am so excited

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