All right. Hello, hello, hello, everyone, all these wonderful people here with us live tonight.

And who's us? Us is Evie Batello sitting right here with me. Thanks for who's us us is evie betelow sitting right

here with me thanks for being back with us evie it's good to have you here and of course my whole

team we got mike we got morgan we got erin and somebody named ryan is now sitting back here

watching how this all operates all right so really excited for tonight's program because we had a lot of big news this

past week. And the biggest news, of course, was that Elon Musk made a little bit of an offer

for Twitter. And so for people who don't know, I've had... What was that pause? Come on. I've had a little

bit of a run-in with the censors this past couple of years, and I am a free

speech devotee. I totally believe in A, you have to have free speech, B, that if you don't have

free speech, you're not going to get to the truth any quicker. You're going to get there a lot

slower. But C, it's up to me to regulate and manage my own reactions to things.

And so one of the things that I'm fundamentally against is this idea, a very patronizing idea that says, well, I'm not worried about how somebody else's tweets might affect me because I'll never be a racist, but I'm worried about other people and how they'll respond.

And of course, they might see a bad tweet and turn racist. It's a very patronizing point of view.

It fundamentally says, I don't trust other people. I want to talk about that. I want to go into

what happened with all of that. And as well, I did, I've been shadow banned on Twitter.

Yeah, you've been abused.

Yeah, but this is, there are a lot of my heroes out there actually got completely

de-platformed.

We'll talk about them.

And I do want to go through what, what's everything's going on in the world today so I know

you just had a little little experience with well you know what this you know

what this leads back into yeah tell me mass psychosis now it's kind of cool I

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