Welcome and happy flag day. [applause] i hope i have communicated to you how excited i am that its flag day. Does anybody read what i wrote in todays paper . I wrote an oped in the wall street journal about flag day and i will be talking about the a little bit later on. Im really excited about that. I want to talk about why that day is in for it to me kind of ties in the theme of the book actually so im not talking about the book. And introducing myself. I not going to introduce myself. I did that the last time, actually let me back up. If you dont know what socrates and the city is in a lot of people on cspan and facebook dont know what it is, i want to say thank you for wrapping up your earlybird dinner and hustling to the tv. Cspan people, i appreciate that its tough to pull yourself away Golden Corral had several soups and its very tough to pull yourself away. Ive been on cspan before, its okay, they, they get my humor, its okay. I want to say that this is a socrates and the city e
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Life is not worth living. You are very late. Take your seat. If you are my friend angie felt like i will call you out. I have to say we realize in new york city people tend to avoid the big subjects, the important things, god, whatever can make you squirm. Does god exist . What is the nature of reality. The kind of questions that people typically dont get into. We cover life, god and other small topics. In other words, everything is fair game at socrates in the city which you which means weve all kinds of different guests on all kinds of different subjects and to do encourage you, go to our website, socrates in the city and you can watch them. Latch we did a whole bunch of events in oxford, england, because a lot of our speakers are in oxford, england, and without why do we take socrates in the city there . We fight a wonderful time over the years. Before i was interviewing people, we would just have a speech at a podium like this everybody number of wonderful gifts do that as well. I