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Welcome back to practical stoicism. I've got my meditations here. I've got my coffee. The sun is

barely peaking over the horizon here in Denver and today is a pretty special day for me.

Today is the first day of my residency, as it were, at the Glassbox Media Network and I'm excited.

Me saying that isn't part of the deal,

and neither is this. The Glassbox people are really nice and actually care about the content

admission of this production, so you can expect good things in the future. But I wanted to

say those things anyway, because I am now a full-time philosophy podcaster, and none of that would have been

possible without your support, as listeners, as subscribers to the premium feed, as people

sharing this content, people reviewing it.

None of that would have happened without you.

And I need to say thanks.

I mean, I probably can't say it enough.

And the biggest benefit of this,

of course, is that with this newfound time, as I have always promised, there is going to be more content. You already know, of course, about Wednesday interviews. This week's will be with

Kieran Setia, who is a professor of philosophy at MIT. But I'm going to be doing some more

things as time goes on,

and here are two of them. We are nearing the end of book three, which means I'll publish another

companion paperback for this podcast, so be on the lookout for that. And not just that,

but because I have so much time, all of my time really, focus on this podcast and Stoicism and teaching it,

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