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Be well, and I hope you love the show today.
So, if you've listened to this show before, you know that something that's a bit of a tagline for this show,
or at least the kind of people that like to listen to this show,
is the phrase, thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday.
Really is a neat phrase.
To be honest, I wish I could, to be honest, I wish I could use it a lot more.
Part of me is just scared that I'm going to become like a hacky radio guy,
and I'll start calling you guys the philosophisethis nation, stuff like that.
Point is, it's a wonderful phrase, right?
I certainly didn't come up with it.
In fact, the origins of that phrase, thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday.
I share it with Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, if you don't already know, is an absolutely fantastic scientific educator.
If you have Netflix, he's the guy on the Cosmos series that whenever he's making some sort of deep, profound point,
he just kind of gazes into your eyes, talks to you, like you just spiked your drink or something, that guy.
But the original thing that he said, he was responding to somebody that was asking him,
what advice he'd give to somebody that's young and ambitious, and they're trying to make waves in the world.
And he responded, I think quite brilliantly, two pieces of advice for you,