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Hello and welcome to the Magic Internet Math podcast.

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It's just me today.

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How's it going, everybody?

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I figured I would start doing some solo, you know, some solo podcasts here.

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We got the main one with Rob.

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We can't really do a lot of learning without Rob.

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He is the learning facilitator.

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we plug into his brain, we prompt it, we get his output.

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And, you know, a lot of what I want to do on this podcast

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is just so dependent on his presence, his existence.

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So, you know, but I still want to continue to push certain conversations here

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even when Rob's not available because Rob is a real job.

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and he's a busy man.

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So, you know, one of the things I'm going to do today in this episode,

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I'm going to, you know, I haven't spent a lot of time shilling the site.

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It's the number one thing I get made fun of by my peers

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is I'm so bad at shilling the site.

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So I'm just going to take an episode and I'm going to do it.

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and I'm going to talk about really, I guess,

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what I am thinking about for 15 hours a day as I build this thing

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and really, oh, you know, what am I trying to do in terms of teaching,

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you know, teaching math to the kinds of people

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who are listening to this podcast like yourself.

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So let me quickly just talk about the status of the site.

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So this is what technically episode five, um, I might classify it as a special episode,

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you know, just cause I'm doing it myself, but, um, I've got this site, it's called magic

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internet math.com and I started building it at the end of December.

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And so it's been three months, one quarter and it has for free.

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It's got a hundred courses on it.

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It's got some games.

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I'll talk about all these things.

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I'll dig in a little bit.

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But like it's got a hundred courses.

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It's got games.

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And it's got a few YouTube series that I've made, mostly as proof of concept.

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And I guess I kind of want to like just talk a little bit about those and explain why they exist.

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And, you know, so I got a hundred courses.

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is a large variety of, based on level and subject, when it comes to math and then economics

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and then some philosophy, some literature.

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You know, it ends up that, you know, this whole thing started because Rob was showing

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me what I could do with Cloud Code in December.

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And he was showing me with my own book.

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And he was like, look what we can do with your book.

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and as I was watching it, I wasn't seeing what could be done with my book.

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I was seeing what could be done with any math book.

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And my eyes really lit up and I just kind of went nuts putting math books in,

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you know, I saw I could convert a math book into these really cool,

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really helpful classes with quizzes and interactive modules.

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So I started doing it like just nonstop.

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I think I was putting five, six classes a day at some point.

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And, you know, I was going, I really wanted my favorite math books to be turned into classes.

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I wanted to make my favorite math books accessible to people.

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So we're talking in calculus, we're talking apostle.

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you know for abstract algebra we're talking

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Dummett and Foot talking

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Hungerford, Serge Lang

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I've got now you know in the algebra category

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probably so linear algebra we're talking Strang

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and Hoffman Koons.

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You know, I don't expect these names to mean much to the people here.

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It doesn't really matter.

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But I want you to know that most of the courses on the site

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do mean something to me.

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They're based on books that mean a lot to me.

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And, you know, I've gotten a lot out of it.

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And I kind of have a decent understanding

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of where each of these things would fit in a basic, you know, in a curriculum.

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So it's like if you're studying linear algebra,

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I could tell you exactly why and when you should study Strang's book versus

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Hoffman Kuhn's versus one of the other ones.

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You know, if you're studying abstract algebra, I could, you know,

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tell you exactly where to begin and then when to go, you know,

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depending on what you're interested in,

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whether or not you go the direction of Dumbfoot or Arton or et cetera.

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So like, you know, I wanted this variety.

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I wanted a number theory.

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So I ended up having a really nice set of math courses,

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like the kind of thing that, you know,

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if you ever found yourself bunkered somewhere for a couple of years,

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you could learn a lot of math now on the site.

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and then it occurred to me.

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So another portion of my favorite books are then beginner books.

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So Serge Lang has a beginner, really it's a beginner math book.

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And so I based the algebra class, the beginner's algebra class off of it.

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and then there's a one of my favorite all-time books.

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It's called Calculus as a Liberal Art.

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And I couldn't wait to get that on the site

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and I can't wait to be teaching,

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like really teaching all of,

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like these books really inspired me

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to teach math as a liberal art.

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We talked a lot about it on that first episode

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called the Genesis episode.

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But I have been thinking about this

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and working on this for probably the better part of the last 15 years.

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You know, at some point in my career,

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and maybe I'll just get in a little bit of my personal,

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like how did I get here?

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I was an actuary.

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I'm not going to get into my high school years or anything like that.

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I'm just going to talk about my professional life

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and how I sort of became somebody who would care today about teaching math.

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You know, I was an actuary.

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I was very frustrated.

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I was such an idealist and I like literally 0% of my peers had any,

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I had shared a single ideal.

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what I saw was just people with the title of actuary,

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just abusing,

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like abusing the lack of knowledge of normies,

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essentially to pull a paycheck,

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total intimidation,

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validation, just total obfuscation. And, you know, these people, their whole goal in life is

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just to be asked one more day to do their report. And it disgusted me. I didn't walk away from that

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saying, oh, let me now teach. You know, it's just something that really left a bad taste in my mouth.

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And I ended up changing careers and I became a quantitative strategist. You know, people would

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call that a quant, but like, I really didn't have the math background to be a quant. Um, you know,

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I applied for a lot of jobs, quants, and they kind of laughed at me. They're like, oh, you're just one

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of those actuaries. You just know how to do, you know, basic five functions and, you know, you,

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you know some probability and that's nice, but you don't know the math. You don't really know the math.

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And then, so I said, you know what? I can learn the math, whatever that, whatever it is, I can learn

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it. So what is it? And, um, you know, it ended up, we were talking like 2003, 2004. I really went on

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this road to being a quant. I was determined to be a quant, um, because I really wanted to work

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with people who I thought were just cared about learning care, you know, just have shared some

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basic ideals that I had. So it was now, um, self, so I went from, you know, studying for exams,

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probably 40 to 50 hours a week to just studying math 40 to 50 hours a week, you know, on top of

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my job. So, you know, what did that look like? It's like finding any analysis textbook, any

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calculus textbook, any differential equations textbook, and then just going for it. So,

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you know, in 2003, 2004, I think I've talked about this before, but I should just kind of

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mention it and talk about it here. It's a really interesting time. You couldn't really get math

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textbooks. It wasn't like it is now. You know, now you go on Amazon or you just Google and there's

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PDF or you just go on magicinternetmath.com and there is a pretty well-organized course already

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laid out for various textbooks. But in 2003, man, it was hard. You really didn't have, like,

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you could go to Barnes and Noble.

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I don't know if anybody here has been to Barnes and Noble looking for a math

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book, but you know,

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the type of math books they have at Barnes and Noble are like, you know,

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bestsellers. You know what I mean? They're not,

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you're not getting a differential equations textbook or an analysis textbook

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or anything like that. You know, you're going to get something like why,

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you know, the number,

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the number pie is so beautiful or the golden ratio,

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or you're going to get some kind of like, you know,

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very appeal to normie

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bestseller type book.

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Okay so Barnes Noble was out And you know we had borders They didn really have much there either So what a man to do in 2003 to you know even get himself a math book

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because he's desperate to prove that he could learn the math to do the job he wants?

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So what I used to do was, you know, I'm in Philly,

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and I used to go down to the University of Pennsylvania bookstore.

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and you know back then you could pretend to be a student and buy textbooks you didn't really you

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could get away with it without showing a student id or anything like that you just go to their

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bookstore you go to the back where they have all the textbooks and you find the one you want and

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you just buy it so this is how i bought a few of my first textbooks and this is what got me going

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for the first couple of years.

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You know, I remember it quite fondly.

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Differential Equations, I got this big,

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I just got the biggest, nicest looking artsy book I could get.

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It was by Cullen and Zill.

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It's great.

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used that textbook for her Differential Equations class,

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which is pretty dang cool.

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I was pretty excited to see that.

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um you know she had the paperback book and i was like oh you got the paperback i got the hardcover

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um and i just remember like i used to ride the septa train septa southeast pennsylvania

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train it's like the train regional rail system in philly and i would ride it to work

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and i would sit there with my textbook on my lap and my notebook on my lap and sit there and

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work um and so whatever you know calculus differential equations linear algebra this is

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what I was obsessed with. So for linear algebra, I mentioned Strang. That's who I was reading.

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I bought the Strang. And the reason I guess the other interesting thing that happened around 2003

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or 2004 was MIT OpenCourse software. MIT OpenCourse software was playing live lectures out of MIT.

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and Gilbert Strang, I think was the,

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Gilbert Strang's linear algebra class

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was like the kind of the flagship course

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being put out of that.

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It was so good.

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I can't recommend it enough.

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Gilbert Strang's,

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I think it's just called linear algebra.

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but I think it's just called linear algebra

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with the blue cover.

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Check that book out or just go to my site.

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I guess. Um, so there was that, there was a Sheldon Axler's linear algebra done right. Um,

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you know, I was just, I was able to pick up these books and I spent the next few years

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learning them. And then that was, that was that. And next thing you knew,

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next thing you knew I was, um, you know, working as a quant, um, pretty amazing.

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so that was like that was the mid-2000s and I did that I did that career faithfully until

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it ended in 2024 and um you know ever since you know along the way it's just been I don't know if

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there was really a period of time where I wasn't studying um studying something so then the

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interesting thing that happened along the way, which I've talked about before is, you know,

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when I discovered Bitcoin and I was in the process of verifying it, I got to the SECP256K1

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GitHub and had a panic attack because, you know, once again, I'm the idealist who believed all the

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pleb slop about don't trust, verify. I'm like, yeah, of course not. Who would do that? Right.

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and so I'm verifying

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verifying I'm going through mastering

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Bitcoin I think there's a Bitcoin

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you know I was really kind of getting the

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protocol down but again I went

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to that cryptography website and it just

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it was like wingdings

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And John Mulaney had some joke about it being like, you know, wingdings and swastikas.

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So I had a panic attack and I was like, what do I do?

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Well, what do I always do when I have a panic attack?

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I immediately say, well, you know what?

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I have the aptitude probably to learn this.

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I've learned harder things in my life probably.

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All right, what does it take?

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So I went out and got this cryptography book.

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It was published by Springer, so I had assumed it would be mathematical in nature.

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Springer is a big math.

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Like a lot of the math books you buy would be published by Springer.

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Don't know who they're owned by.

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Probably Chiseline Maxwell's dad.

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But regardless, I got that book.

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Like that book was basically number theory and abstract algebra, like 101 in teaching you how cryptography works.

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I remember going to Hawaii with the family and, you know, the flight every morning, waking up on the freaking beach, studying that book every day, every day, every day.

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couldn't get enough of it. So good. So then that book really opened up just a, it just opened up

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like, oh my God, you know, I could study this shit for the rest of my life if I really, really

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wanted to. But then I also realized I had to go now and learn abstract algebra formally and learn

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number theory formally. So now in the age of the internet, you ask yourself, oh, what book do I get?

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What do I do?

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elementary number theory book.

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It's by Kenneth Rosen, and it was good, and I do recommend it.

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Haven't made a class out of that book yet, ironically, but I probably will.

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I feel like there were better books for teaching so far

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that would look better on a website.

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Anyhow, for abstract algebra, I don't know what the hell I was doing.

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So, you know, the one takeaway I got from the cryptography book was like Galois groups and Galois theory.

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And then I was going to have to understand that.

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By the way, back at the time I was calling it Galois and I was corrected by this Ph.D. kid who works for me.

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He's like, I don't know how to tell you this, but it's actually it's actually Galois.

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I was like, I knew that. I was just seeing if you knew.

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So anyhow, so you go, I look at all these abstract algebra books and they all have like, they all, you get to like the final chapter and they say, oh, this is now Galois theory.

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I'm like, oh God.

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I guess I got to get to the final chapter of every one of these books.

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And, you know, it started in 2023.

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First one was Frehley.

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The second one were these two Chinese guys.

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I don't even know their names.

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I could, I'm on, I'm, I am currently now on Goodman.

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And it's my eighth abstract algebra textbook.

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And I'm only now really starting to get some things that I wanted to get.

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But it does seem fluid enough to teach because, you know, I really hit a stride in being able to understand and explain what's going on in Bitcoin's elliptic curve and why it's important for us to understand that.

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And I think that's just come from every single morning for the last three years studying abstract algebra in some way, shape or form.

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And it just so happens now my daughter is studying it as a math major.

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And so we talk about it almost every day.

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We watch YouTube videos of different professors teaching it.

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And this is now like, you know, it's very, very embedded.

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So that was just a little bit of like the journey and how I got here.

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I've always been a self-learner, right?

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But I think it's just like the disappointment in people really got me to think about math a lot.

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because one of my biggest disappointments in people in life is the way they view math.

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And this is like, I saw this a lot, you know, with my kids and my kids' friends and their parents

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and going to parent meetings at their schools and seeing the attitudes.

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And it's always, I mean, it's not just my kids.

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It's not my kids, really.

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It's everybody else, like outside of my family, you know, including mostly like my parents

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And anybody, man, anybody who's ever been successful, it's like in the rule book that you have to have this attitude that you don't study, you don't study math unless there's some obvious reason to do so.

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So here's the other part, I guess, of my personal life is my father is a PhD, his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

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And, you know, he was an electrical engineer.

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So it was electrical engineering.

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He was actually an aerospace engineer, and he put satellites in space.

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That's what he did for his whole career.

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You know, almost flirted with regret about not going into finance,

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but he'll be the first to tell you.

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Like his attitude was just like, fuck that.

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That's for losers.

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I'm like, I'm right here.

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I can hear you.

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He's like, well, not you, but, you know,

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I would have felt like a loser if I had done that. And, you know, I get my values a lot from my dad.

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You know, my dad just, he would have felt like a loser doing that as a mercenary and doing anything.

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You know, he just was, you know, my dad was also a fucking stupid idealist who like listened to JFK

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talk about going to the moon. And he was like, yes, yes. And then, you know, he's sitting there

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in, you know, 2010 trying to retire.

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It's like, oh, what the hell did I do?

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You know, this field stinks.

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But, you know, he had his values and he stuck to them

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and he stuck with the career.

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You know, I had different values.

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I guess I thought I could go into finance

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and still be an idealist about it.

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And I really was dead wrong What can I say But like you know all of this disappointment in people even so the mathematicians disappointed me

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all of the other

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dipshits disappointed me

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and so I just sat there

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and continued to think and think and think

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about how would I do this

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how would I do this if I was

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given the magic wand and I can

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teach math to people

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how would it happen and that's you know

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I have young kids and I'm thinking a lot about what do I want for them and what do they need?

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And at some point I discovered the Waldorf school and, um, it made it just so much sense

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for me to send, send my kids there. And, um, you know, I could talk a little bit about the

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Waldorf school, but it's, it's, um, it's largely based on the teachings of Rural Steiner who on,

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you know, on my website now I have, I think I have 12 classes of basically 12 Rudolph Steiner's books.

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And I'm going to have a lot more. I probably want to have a hundred books just of Rudolph Steiner's

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on my site. And the reason I, and then I figured out the reason I have that on there is because

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now when I write, right, when I have the AI tools, write the math books, I can actually tell it,

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But, you know, I want you to think about what Rudolf Steiner, even though he died in 1900 or whenever it was early 1900s, you know, where would he be right now?

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Where would he be if he was alive?

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What would he be?

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And it turns out it's very relevant.

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It's very, very, very relevant.

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It's very relevant that my kids were educated there.

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I was told over and over again, you think your daughter is going to study math?

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Don't send her to a Waldorf school.

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Are you crazy?

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and I was forming this worldview about math being taught as a liberal art.

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Now, they don't do that there, but they focus on liberal arts,

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and I had this kind of gamble that, you know what?

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I want my child to have a great liberal arts education,

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and I can handle the math.

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I can handle the math side.

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I don't need them for that.

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And it turned out that they had some very special,

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there's some very talented math teachers there just I think by by luck and it all really worked

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out well now my oldest daughter is a math major she's a junior she's like insanely talented very

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good to the point where I had I knew I had to build this I had to build this math academy so

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that she'd have somewhere to work and um you know without sending her to the belly of the beast

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you know and like having cultivated this talent just to have her go work for work for the enemy

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um you know that didn't sit well with me at all like imagine imagine

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you know making this bet and developing this human this humanities curriculum and putting

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child through it only to have them go implement sociopathic algorithms for google or tesla or

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wherever, you know? So, um, that, you know, that doesn't sit very well with me. So it, it occurred

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to me, I had to build this math academy. Um, I want it to exist. I don't think it, I don't think

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anything like it does. And I believe my kids will have the ability to really bring it to life when

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it's their turn to do so. So that was pretty, that was a long way. That was a long way to,

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you know, sort of get to now. But so I have a bunch of classes. I got skill building games.

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They're fun. They're supposed to be fun and you're supposed to get points and you're supposed

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to care about getting points and you take, you take quizzes on the class and get points. And,

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And, you know, at some point, at some juncture, the points will matter.

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The points will give you, will grant you eligibility into classes that I'll offer, things like that.

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But, you know, as it stands today, they don't matter for anything.

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But, you know, you can get on that site.

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You can log in with an email or your end pub.

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and you can start taking quizzes and playing games and getting points.

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I should say the majority of what's on there is available for free,

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but there is now a subscriber option.

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So you can subscribe for $5 a month.

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I consider that quite a bargain.

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even with what I have on the site now.

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And I'll talk about what I have on there now

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for subscriber-only content.

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But it's $5 a month, $50 a year.

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And if you know me and we have a relationship,

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I'm offering lifetime subscriptions

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to a very limited amount of people.

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The reason it's limited is because

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you'd be people I care about and I don't want it.

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I need the Dunbar number to be within what I can deliver,

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what I know I could deliver that value to.

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So that's currently 250,000 sats for lifetime membership so far.

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Six of you guys have gone for it, and I really appreciate it.

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And your feedback is really what's pushing the site forward now.

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But, you know, if you don't want to do that,

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you could just do $5 a month.

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And, you know, the first goal for me is to actually hire a maintainer and to somebody who can actually make sure the site will live long enough to deliver value for a long time.

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You know, the AI is very powerful.

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Clock code is very powerful.

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But, man, I'm pretty sure if I don't get a real live person in charge of this thing, I don't know.

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I don't know what the longevity is, to be honest.

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So I really want to get, you know, you get a few thousand people sign up for the site, I can hire a dev to actually maintain it.

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That's really my, it's like one of my big goals.

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So what is the subscriber only content?

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I'm really excited about it.

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So let me first say, okay, so I had the classes, I had the games.

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I mentioned the YouTube videos.

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So let me tell you what's available publicly for anybody right now.

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I really was doing these proof of concept YouTube videos.

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I wanted to prove to myself I could actually use the AI

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and make a high quality learning experience on YouTube.

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For what it's worth, I subscribe to so many channels.

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I pay $5 a month to a lot of people.

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And you know what?

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I think I have a good sense of what that's worth.

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and a lot of the sites I subscribe to are very good.

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It's usually those people doing classes.

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So I was really kind of nervous

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about just creating an AI-based class.

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But I feel very good about what I've created.

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So I created a series on Michael Saylor's MIT dissertation,

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not because I think that's an important thing.

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It just was a funny thing I was thinking about that week,

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the week I happened to want to do a proof of concept.

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And it was, not to get too off track, but that was the week Saylor went on Danny Knowles' podcast and just eviscerated him for kind of, Danny was being very pleb sloppy and, you know, in my opinion, kind of ignorant.

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And Saylor just teed off on him.

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And I made a joke at the time.

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I said, you know what?

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Maybe Danny should just read Michael Saylor's dissertation.

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And if you're a podcaster, you should read Michael Saylor's dissertation.

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And then you can like pull some goodwill hunting shit on him.

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If he ever tries to yell at you, you'll be like, hey, guess what?

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I know I read your dissertation.

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I know exactly what you're talking about.

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All right.

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I know how much you value X, Y, Z.

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And then you can just go over the top and body slam him.

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So that was the idea I was throwing around.

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And I said, you know what?

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what if I just bring that dissertation in as a class on the website? And it is. And then I said,

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huh, what if I made a YouTube video out of this? And I did. And that was the first one. And it was

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really actually quite good. I was surprised that what I found out was possible.

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So, you know, I would recommend checking it out. After that, I got the bright idea that I can bring

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and fictional works. And I brought in the book Atlas Shrugged and I went through the course it

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made on my site and I was so impressed. It was so good. It was such a great experience to relive

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the book in this format. And I thought it just did, I thought the class did a great job. And I said,

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okay, guess what? This now big opportunity here. We're going to make a YouTube video of this and

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We're going to see how that looks.

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And, you know, aside from a few foibles in the voiceover type stuff,

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you know, Reardon, you know,

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pronouncing just those pronunciations of some characters' names,

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it came out really good.

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And I think anybody who likes that book

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or anybody who wants to kind of know why people talk about that book

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and they don't want to read an 1,100-page book,

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I think it's a very good Cliff Notes.

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it's like two hours to go through the whole thing, you know?

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So amazing.

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And then, okay, so then I got really, I started getting bold and said,

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hmm, okay, one of my favorite math books of all time.

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It's not really a math book.

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It's called Men of Mathematics, and it's a book of biographies

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of 30 mathematicians, you know, the stories of Gauss and Euler

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and Laplace and Pascal and Leibniz and all of these really, you know, incredible and tragic,

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a lot of times, Archimedes. And, you know, I love the stories of these people. And as a father

451
00:32:11,502 --> 00:32:20,043
of a math major, I think it's so important for a student to be well-versed in the history because

452
00:32:20,043 --> 00:32:26,662
you, you know, you need to place yourself amongst these people. You need to say, well, who, you know,

453
00:32:26,662 --> 00:32:28,822
Which one, you know, who do I relate to?

454
00:32:28,902 --> 00:32:30,803
Which circumstances relate to me?

455
00:32:31,002 --> 00:32:46,164
You know which what kind of mathematician am I going to be in society What the biography going to sound like about me So I love math history and there a lot of it on my site a lot of it And so I decided to make

456
00:32:46,164 --> 00:32:55,484
a YouTube series of the Men of Mathematics book by Eric Temple Bell. And 30 episodes, it is so good.

457
00:32:55,564 --> 00:32:59,584
And these things are not, they're like eight or nine minutes long each one. So it's a perfect

458
00:32:59,584 --> 00:33:04,384
length, you know, and so right now those are hosted on Fountain.

459
00:33:05,464 --> 00:33:07,064
They're going to end up on YouTube.

460
00:33:08,364 --> 00:33:08,924
Okay.

461
00:33:09,264 --> 00:33:13,824
The next thing I did, again, in the YouTube space, okay,

462
00:33:13,824 --> 00:33:18,564
in the site space was after the first episode of the podcast,

463
00:33:18,844 --> 00:33:26,644
Rob mentioned a Bitcoin talk forum post about why Satoshi chose SECP256K1.

464
00:33:26,644 --> 00:33:31,264
And I had this, once again, I had another idea.

465
00:33:31,444 --> 00:33:34,504
It just came, you know, Rob says things and then I get these ideas.

466
00:33:34,584 --> 00:33:35,684
And this is just how it works.

467
00:33:36,104 --> 00:33:38,904
So I get this idea like, wait a second, what if I just,

468
00:33:39,484 --> 00:33:45,184
what if I could take all of Satoshi's 546 Bitcoin talk forum posts

469
00:33:45,184 --> 00:33:47,684
and make that into a class on the site?

470
00:33:48,744 --> 00:33:50,104
Boom, that's done.

471
00:33:50,424 --> 00:33:51,224
That was incredible.

472
00:33:51,584 --> 00:33:55,044
And then I said, oh, okay, YouTube video time.

473
00:33:55,044 --> 00:33:57,824
we're going to see if I can make a YouTube series on this.

474
00:33:57,924 --> 00:33:59,424
And guess what?

475
00:33:59,984 --> 00:34:01,004
It got done.

476
00:34:01,364 --> 00:34:01,764
Incredible.

477
00:34:02,164 --> 00:34:02,404
Okay.

478
00:34:03,324 --> 00:34:07,484
So now I'm starting to collect these YouTube series that are pretty cool,

479
00:34:07,604 --> 00:34:09,984
pretty informative, and I'm starting to get good at making them.

480
00:34:11,244 --> 00:34:16,084
And so after the first, after that episode, I had another idea,

481
00:34:16,184 --> 00:34:19,564
which is what I want to teach cryptography, but I want to,

482
00:34:19,684 --> 00:34:22,844
I want to go from arithmetic to cryptography.

483
00:34:22,844 --> 00:34:29,844
And so I created that sort of flagship YouTube video series that I'm guessing a lot of people have seen.

484
00:34:30,404 --> 00:34:34,724
Up Daily picked it up and shared the first episode with the link.

485
00:34:36,544 --> 00:34:38,504
If you haven't seen it, you should definitely check it out.

486
00:34:38,544 --> 00:34:42,124
So this is like the last free, this is the last freebie on the site.

487
00:34:43,484 --> 00:34:46,584
But I want it to showcase what I do.

488
00:34:46,584 --> 00:34:58,624
So what I think it showcases is the spirit of teaching as a sort of, you know, you're the student on a hero's journey.

489
00:34:59,184 --> 00:35:06,664
And it's like almost a Greek heroic epic that you're learning inside of.

490
00:35:06,664 --> 00:35:18,524
And we go from modular arithmetic to groups to, you know, to the Euclidean algorithm to signatures to Frost, you know, and music.

491
00:35:19,504 --> 00:35:29,504
So that sort of concludes the journey of the free stuff I created to really show my proof of work here.

492
00:35:29,504 --> 00:35:38,084
Now, what's on the website now that's subscriber only, what I created was a basic high school algebra class.

493
00:35:39,504 --> 00:35:40,264
And it's 16.

494
00:35:40,884 --> 00:35:42,264
There's a study guide.

495
00:35:42,384 --> 00:35:44,624
It's about 100 pages with a lot of exercises.

496
00:35:45,104 --> 00:35:47,764
It's framed as a Greek heroic epic.

497
00:35:48,764 --> 00:35:57,484
And it takes you from basic arithmetic all the way to solving systems of equations to functions.

498
00:35:59,504 --> 00:36:04,384
And it's amazing. It's really great. And so now that's on the subscriber only section.

499
00:36:05,344 --> 00:36:09,404
And pretty much everything I create from here on out is going to be subscriber only.

500
00:36:09,884 --> 00:36:13,764
And I expect there to be a lot in the next few months.

501
00:36:15,604 --> 00:36:25,304
OK, so that was that. And then I guess the only other thing I'm going to add is that is this idea of Rudolf Steiner.

502
00:36:25,304 --> 00:36:30,824
So this idea of Rudolf Steiner, I think the next thing I'm going to throw on the subscriber only section of the site.

503
00:36:31,164 --> 00:36:32,464
Sorry if you guys aren't subscribed.

504
00:36:32,804 --> 00:36:38,384
But I'll also have like free weeks marketing shit like that out there.

505
00:36:38,764 --> 00:36:44,124
Anyway, there's a paper I created.

506
00:36:44,424 --> 00:36:48,764
I call them study guides because people get triggered if I say I wrote books with AI.

507
00:36:49,144 --> 00:36:52,404
So I'm writing study guides with AI.

508
00:36:52,404 --> 00:36:59,964
and instead of saying written by brian hirshfield it says i think it says imagined by brian hirshfield

509
00:36:59,964 --> 00:37:06,264
um i didn't write these books the ai wrote them but you know what these are really now

510
00:37:06,264 --> 00:37:14,824
we're starting to get very original in the ability to bring topics and ideas together

511
00:37:14,824 --> 00:37:34,144
And this one book that got written, it's called The Four Proofs. And it goes Euclid, Gauss, Steiner, Satoshi. And it's all about their different ways of explaining proofs.

512
00:37:34,144 --> 00:37:43,124
and so if you know Euclid was he was the great Greek mathematician who you know like Archimedes

513
00:37:43,124 --> 00:37:48,844
was considered the greatest mathematician ever he came up with things Euclid was the one who

514
00:37:48,844 --> 00:37:53,304
wrote the proofs he was the one that proved everything so he was sort of like the scholar who

515
00:37:53,304 --> 00:38:01,284
provided the rigor that really was the foundation for the next 1800 years

516
00:38:01,284 --> 00:38:06,284
without him, it's probably 4,000 years

517
00:38:06,284 --> 00:38:09,304
before somebody like Fermat or Gauss comes along.

518
00:38:10,804 --> 00:38:14,224
But Euclid really lays this foundation down,

519
00:38:14,324 --> 00:38:19,084
proves all these things like parallel lines don't intersect,

520
00:38:20,164 --> 00:38:21,044
things like these.

521
00:38:21,264 --> 00:38:23,284
He proves these axioms.

522
00:38:25,124 --> 00:38:29,284
He has this book of elements and 15,

523
00:38:29,284 --> 00:38:32,504
I don't even know how many volumes there are, but guess what?

524
00:38:32,564 --> 00:38:33,704
They're all on the website.

525
00:38:34,824 --> 00:38:37,164
Euclid's Elements is on my website as a course.

526
00:38:39,364 --> 00:38:42,404
So you have Euclid who was like the guy that proved these things.

527
00:38:42,484 --> 00:38:47,484
You have Gauss who like he proved a lot of things too,

528
00:38:47,584 --> 00:38:52,324
but the point of where it comes up in the book is that, you know,

529
00:38:52,384 --> 00:38:55,064
he had the proofs already in his head before he wrote them.

530
00:38:55,064 --> 00:39:00,544
Okay, so like a proof can be just something you know.

531
00:39:02,004 --> 00:39:04,964
You can know it and not actually, you know.

532
00:39:05,144 --> 00:39:09,104
So like basically the moment Gauss sat down with his pen and pencil,

533
00:39:09,304 --> 00:39:11,444
the proof already existed, okay?

534
00:39:12,504 --> 00:39:16,944
And this then leads to Steiner because Steiner basically says, yes,

535
00:39:17,084 --> 00:39:21,124
and it's like there's a physical world and there's an invisible world.

536
00:39:21,124 --> 00:39:23,324
There's a thinking world.

537
00:39:23,324 --> 00:39:29,304
Like, and even in the thinking world, there are very real things in the invisible world.

538
00:39:29,424 --> 00:39:34,244
I think he called it the spiritual realm, but he also called it the invisible realm.

539
00:39:34,764 --> 00:39:44,724
And he used to say that you can prove things in the spiritual realm, but like, you know, man hasn't quite evolved yet to be able to do it, but they will.

540
00:39:45,204 --> 00:39:46,784
And it's definitely possible.

541
00:39:46,784 --> 00:39:51,344
And there is a rigorous construct in the spiritual realm to prove things.

542
00:39:51,344 --> 00:40:06,404
And the reason why that's so interesting to me, and it's so interesting that this would be put in this book, is because the fourth person was Satoshi, who really showed us how to prove things in the invisible realm.

543
00:40:06,944 --> 00:40:11,544
In the world of Bitcoin, it is an invisible realm.

544
00:40:12,464 --> 00:40:20,524
You know, it's not a spiritual realm, but it's the thing that when people say they don't like it, the reason is it's invisible.

545
00:40:20,524 --> 00:40:34,504
I can't see it. I can't touch it. You know, I like my shiny rocks. I like to see it. I like to know, you know, even though they love numbers on a screen, their brokerage accounts, which is an invisible realm too. There's no proof there, right? There's proof here.

546
00:40:34,504 --> 00:40:48,484
And so you have this lineage of proofs and provers, and Steiner really is just the one that—he's sort of the straw that stirs the whole drink because he can connect.

547
00:40:49,164 --> 00:41:03,404
He can basically provide a construct that puts Satoshi on the same level as Gauss and Euclid in terms of how do you know what we know, which is, as you guys know, that's the thing I focus on the most, right?

548
00:41:03,404 --> 00:41:06,704
which is just how do you know that you know what you know?

549
00:41:08,504 --> 00:41:15,244
So that's, you know, these are examples of things you're going to start to see on my website.

550
00:41:15,364 --> 00:41:20,004
And those are the, these are going to be the basis of lectures and classes that I'm going to do.

551
00:41:20,164 --> 00:41:25,264
And, you know, you have lifetime members and you have subscribers.

552
00:41:25,264 --> 00:41:32,644
And basically what that will give you is access to all the content that will be put, you know, sort of passively on the site.

553
00:41:32,644 --> 00:41:37,524
And then it'll also give you access to things that take my time.

554
00:41:37,784 --> 00:41:43,904
Like if I do a course, you know, only a subscriber will be able to register for it.

555
00:41:44,004 --> 00:41:45,364
And I'll, you know, I'll do that.

556
00:41:45,424 --> 00:41:47,084
That will be an extra cost.

557
00:41:47,624 --> 00:41:52,684
But you won't be able to register for that unless you are a subscriber.

558
00:41:52,684 --> 00:42:03,904
And there's probably going to be some criteria on how many points you have in certain classes to be able to register for certain classes and things like that.

559
00:42:04,424 --> 00:42:06,104
I don't want to make it too complicated.

560
00:42:06,344 --> 00:42:09,244
I just want to give you guys the sense that there's going to be a lot coming.

561
00:42:10,284 --> 00:42:13,124
I really think it's a good idea to be a member.

562
00:42:14,044 --> 00:42:17,564
If nothing else, I hate these arguments.

563
00:42:17,864 --> 00:42:20,504
I'm not asking for charity here.

564
00:42:20,504 --> 00:42:22,944
I do think this provides a ton of value.

565
00:42:23,084 --> 00:42:28,324
But if nothing else, you know, I do think we're supporting the education.

566
00:42:28,484 --> 00:42:39,964
If you like the way I am supporting education in math and you want that to exist, right, you know, I think it's just a good idea to be a subscriber to the site.

567
00:42:41,024 --> 00:42:47,504
If you're a little closer to me, you're listening to this, hit me up if you want to be a lifetime subscriber and we'll talk about it.

568
00:42:47,504 --> 00:42:51,624
But it's not something I enter into lightly.

569
00:42:51,944 --> 00:42:54,724
And so the six of you that are lifetime, I think you guys all know,

570
00:42:54,824 --> 00:42:59,224
I didn't allow that or I didn't enter into that agreement with you guys lightly.

571
00:43:00,964 --> 00:43:05,964
You know, I have a solemn vow to deliver that value to you guys.

572
00:43:05,964 --> 00:43:08,744
And by extension, it'll be delivered to everybody else.

573
00:43:10,524 --> 00:43:15,944
So this isn't a pitch to come join the website, but it is definitely, you know,

574
00:43:15,944 --> 00:43:17,484
I couldn't do the show with Rob today.

575
00:43:19,344 --> 00:43:20,284
And so I thought,

576
00:43:20,384 --> 00:43:20,524
hey,

577
00:43:20,584 --> 00:43:21,224
why not just,

578
00:43:21,344 --> 00:43:23,884
why not just get on solo and talk to you guys?

579
00:43:26,004 --> 00:43:27,684
I think that's going to be about it.

580
00:43:28,824 --> 00:43:29,764
Until next time.

581
00:43:30,504 --> 00:43:30,904
Peace.