Hi, everyone.

Welcome to the Fundamentalists podcast.

It's been a moment, and we hope you're having an excellent stress-free holiday season.

I'm here once again with Dr. Peter Rollins,

but this time it's a little bit different, folks.

Things have changed.

Life is moving at breakneck speeds for all of us.

It's hard to keep up.

What's going on on Twitter?

We're going to talk about it.

But first, we need to catch up with Dr. Peter Rollins,

philosopher, writer, who is currently getting

used to his new home in Belfast, Ireland, northern Ireland, and has behind him, if you

aren't listening or watching this video version, he has behind him a very beautiful, stunning

Christmas tree.

And it looks wonderful.

Now, Pete, can you explain both a little bit about the tree what your inspiration was?

And then if you don't mind, and I know this won't be as fun for our audio listeners,

but if you could do what you did for me just a moment, just before we started hitting record,

where you walked over to that tree to reveal how incredibly large it is and how small in comparison it looks in the

frame, because it looks like you're doing a Lord of the Rings forced depth perception thing,

and it's really fascinating.

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