Hey Podcast listeners, Shankar here. We have an anniversary to celebrate. We've been bringing

you Hidden Brain for one year now. We're so glad and thankful you've come along with

us, and we've learned a lot about what you like and a lot about what we like. So now

it's time to double down on that with a string of ambitious new episodes. Here's a sneak

peek. We'll have moments of danger.

I could tell as soon as I had jumped in that it was a weird situation, I felt uncomfortable

as soon as I got through the doors.

There was a knife fight, and the friend turned on him.

I just saw him walk in, pick up a newspaper, and leave, at which point I screamed, he's

outside.

Moments of lives changed. Everyone turns out to be pretty interested in what they're

doing with their life. And nobody was given a toolkit for how to figure that out.

I was raised, you know, right every day, right, 1500 words a day, go to graduate school,

and, you know, Twitter gave me back my voice.

Moments of shocking coincidence.

He's like, oh, you waited on me in Columbus, Ohio, and X year, the guy just froze. And he

said, yeah, you're right.

I think the odds are about 18 septillion to one against it happening.

You wouldn't have gotten that scan down when you did if it hadn't been for the incident.

The incident was truly horrible.

Yep.

I don't know how to process that.

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