Sam Harris

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Yeah, it's, this is the thing, as you know, that I really hate about live events.

They're like the one thing that if life goes haywire, it's really difficult to cancel or reschedule.

I've been to events, you know, my own events where people have come up and said, I mean, I think I was one in Vancouver or Toronto, and a couple came up and said they had traveled from Australia for the event.

And obviously that's just amazing to hear and wonderful.

But I think of those people on that rare occasion that an event has to be

rescheduled or canceled because I know there are people who are just coming out of a hotel expecting to go to an event in Dallas and they're getting their email or not seeing their email that it was rescheduled.

So that just gives me serious brain damage.

And it was not lightly that we canceled this, but I've got a family member who had to go in the hospital yesterday and I don't want to get into private details, but it's a big deal and it's stable at the moment, but it's very good that I'm in town.

Okay.

Yeah, well, I guess we're going to make light of this because it's kind of funny the way I'm in them, but I don't want there to be any confusion around how I perceive the larger

issue here.

I mean, I'm not, obviously nothing I'm about to say is going to make light of what a monster Epstein was and how good it is that, I mean, in my view, at least, that the files are coming out.

And, you know, obviously anyone who participated in