Hey, everybody.

Eric Trexler here with my dear friend and colleague, the good Dr. Eric Helms.

This is Iron Culture Live, presented by the Mass Research Review.

If you've been following along the last few weeks, then you know we're trying to get in the habit of doing more live

episodes on Monday nights. The typical episode now of Iron Culture is actually going to be live

on YouTube streamed at 7 p.m. Eastern Time. If you haven't been following the last few episodes,

you're very confused. You don't know what's happening. Um, you are questioning your

reality. And ironically, I found myself in the same place earlier today, Holmes. I, I had like one

huge task I needed to do for, for work. And, uh, I woke up for some reason, like three or four hours

before my alarm and just started working.

So I finished this task, which was very tedious.

I was working on an IRB document, an ethics document, which is now 230 pages long.

So I got that resubmitted and I basically had this like three hour chunk of time I freed up from

waking up early. I passed out, took a nap, and honestly got Helms, when I woke up from the nap,

I did not know what day it was. I was so confused. I like, my phone said four o'clock and I normally

wake up around 4 a.m. but it was still light outside.

So I thought my phone was broken and I was like refreshing it. And then I was like, wait a minute. Let's

start with the basics. What day is it? Not the exact date on the calendar. What day of the week?

Let's start there. Then we'll get more specific. And eventually I found my way toward reality. So all of that is to

say, if you're watching right now and the screen looks different and it's a different night than you're

used to for the live presentation, you will find your way back toward reality one way or another.

So don't panic. But yeah, thanks for joining us here on Iron

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