Hey Michael, how's it going?

Hey, how you doing Sean?

Doing good, you're looking great, but we've got like a buzzing noise.

It's like a bee above your head from the fan.

Ah, let me mute that.

Yeah, hold on.

I'll be right back.

Thank you. Okay.

Yes, much better.

All right, before we get into Atlantis then, can you just tell the viewers a little bit about you?

Yeah, as you mentioned, I'm kind of an eclectic person. I guess relevant to this topic, yeah, I was an adjunct professor for about 15 years in Chicago area.

And I taught all sorts of things world history, World War II history,

US foreign policy and I started writing this book about eight years ago, and I just finished it, I think, around November, December of 2022, and

published it, self-published it on Amazon just really for my friends and myself I had never expected

Really anything from it. I was just interested in the topic as a kind of personal investigation.

But I was quite shocked, you know, to see its success and just to see how many people were, you know, still interested in a topic that I think a lot of people deep down are curious about but are, you know, the old story afraid of being well you believe in Atlantis and you know I always

tell people well it's not a religious belief you know it's like asking do you believe in Plato

it's just it just a question of how much of this story can we verify given how long ago its purported demise really was. I think what makes your angle interesting particularly is there's so many bizarre stories about Atlantis,

but with your background in philosophy and history,

it gives it credibility.

So I'd be interested to start out just by asking what is your definition of Atlantis?

That's a great question and as part of the reason I think I really structured the book

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