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and my conversations with guests ranging from

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snake wranglers to bank robbers to well

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you know you listen to the podcast

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you know how I get on here

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still welcome all you got to do

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many ways to do that once you

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I can't afford this shit, but I

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want to listen and I will make

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it happen. And if you can't afford

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this shit, please do. because it

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keeps keeps the shit flowing, ain't

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that beautiful, ain't that poetic. To

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give you a sense of what

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you are missing, if you don't,

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in this episode, I talked

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a lot about this mess with Neil

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Geiman or... and I don't know

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how to say his name, but

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it's a me too situation where

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he's a very famous writer

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and he apparently

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acted inappropriately with

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some fans, had some

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sexual contact, that is, I

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gotta say, I am a

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very open-minded guy, but some

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of the stuff that he

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did with these ones pretty

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fucking gross, but... Gross

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isn't the same as

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criminal and he's being

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accused of criminal

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behavior and yet the

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women with whom he engaged

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with with whom he

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engaged in this behavior

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at the time were into it

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or at least they said they

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were into it and so we

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get to the question of what

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is consent. and can

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consent be retroactively withdrawn?

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And if so, where

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does that leave us as a

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society? So these are difficult

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topics and one of

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the reasons that I have

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instituted this whole paywall situation

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is that I want to

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know that I'm only talking

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to people who really want

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to hear my take on

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these things. So, yes, I

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am trying to filter the

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audience in the sense, not that

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I only want people who agree

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with me, but I only want

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people who have good

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intentions, who actually want

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to engage with ideas and

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not just scold and get

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offended and freak out. And

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I feel like speaking to

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the general public, speaking to

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anybody who just, you know,

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downloads the episode. encourages

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a lot of kind of trolling behavior

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and I'm just fucking tired of it.

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I don't want to deal with trolls.

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I don't want people coming. to my

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party who don't want to be at

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my party. And you'd be amazed how

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many people come to your party and

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just stand in the corner and talk

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about what a shitty party this is.

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I don't want those people here. So

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that's why I've set up this little wall.

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It does, you don't even have to

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pay the five bucks. All you got

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to do is say, I want to

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be here and you're welcome. So I

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talked about that quite a bit and

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some of the implications of that. I

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talked about why I do a podcast

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and I read some, I read an

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email that I got from

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somebody that was very touching

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and what else did I

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do? I talked about an

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interview I listened to with

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David Milch who talks about

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people who are unable to turn

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their wishes into passions,

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sit passively and mute

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outrage anticipating disasters and

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I sort of use

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that as a launching

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point to talk about

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what I think is

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happening at this particular

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historic moment in the United

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States, and maybe in other

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countries as well, but certainly

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in the United States. So

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please join us. Chris

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Ryan.substack.com. I'll see you there.