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Be well, and I hope you love the show today.
So I've been having this vision lately of somebody sitting at home listening to the last few episodes of this podcast angry at me.
Disappointed in the content, content, content.
By the way, in case you're wondering, this is a perfect recipe for becoming a miserable person, right?
Like when you're at the level of misery,
when you're having hypothetical arguments with fictitious people in your head for days on end,
like that, that is next level misery.
But if there's any saving grace, it's not entirely an indictment of me being a crazy person.
I mean, I'm not arguing with Napoleon in my head.
This person in my head is emblematic of a type of person that actually exists out there.
A person whose existence opens up a lot of interesting conversations when it comes to our episode today.
Now, for the sake of that conversation, let's just call this person, I don't know, Johnny.
Johnny loves to philosophize this podcast.
He listens to it every week.
And whenever he does listen to it,
he's learned that the show can typically be broken down into two very distinct types of episodes.
One is the kind of episode where we talk about things that are obviously useful in a practical sense.
This could be any number of things.