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Hello, James, how are you doing? I'm great, Glen. Thank you for having me.

You are very welcome. This is Glen Laury at the glenshow bloggingheads.tv.

Also patreon.com forward slash Glenshow. When I'm not talking to John McWater,

that's every other week. I'm talking to somebody else in this week. It's James Lindsay.

James, do you want to introduce yourself a little bit more extensively?

I suppose, yeah, I run a website right now called New Discourses.

It's a I try to put out material explaining broadly what we might call the woke movement.

That kind of grew out of the research that I did to help write a book called cynical theories

that came out this summer that explains supposed modern component and it's a philosophical word,

but the postmodern component of the woke way of thinking. That grew out of what I'm probably

formerly at least was best known for, which was the Grieven Studies Affair, which was a series of

academic hoaxes isn't quite the right word. Fake papers is a better way to describe it

for a technical but correct reason that we did in 2017 and 2018. Myself along with Peter

Bergotian and Helen Pluckrose, who wrote cynical theories with me. So I've been writing,

I'm an author, I have a PhD in math, not in any of the social science or humanities type stuff,

but I've been writing, I guess, professionally, ish. It's hard to make money writing for about

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