 Next speaker is a gentleman by the name of Richard Nikolai and he's a returning speaker to the 21 convention. I heard him speak last year in Orlando. His speech is called Free the Animal, which sounds pretty cool. He is a best-selling author of Free the Animal and you can find out more about him at free the animal.com and he's one of the top authors for the new web company called Hyper Inc. So let's welcome Richard to the stage. I'd like to give my presentations barefoot. I hope you don't mind. I did that last year. I think I'll make it a tradition if I come here again. Thank you all for coming. It's nice to be out here again. Last year, who am I? I'm Richard Nikolai, website Free the Animal. I'm what they call a paleo blogger and last year my presentation was almost entirely about diet, health, you know, things like intermittent fasting. Dave Asprey, my friend, is gonna speak about the the bulletproof diet tomorrow, which is very closely related. You've got the caveman, you got the paleo, you got the bulletproof. Ancestral, I was just at the Ancestral Health Symposium in Boston last week. This is basically a similar kind of presentation. In the presentation that I gave last year, what I spoke about, like I said, diet, exercise, but then there was a little bit at the end about my attitude towards, you know, politics, political structures, even religion, things like that. And I decided that what I would do this year is take that part of it and expand it into a full presentation. So we're going to talk about basically what you're gonna hear from me today is the same presentation that you've been hearing since Socrates started yesterday. How many know that you've essentially heard the same presentation over and over and over and over again? What is that common thread? Can anybody tell me what that common thread is? That's part of it. It's part of it. Reality. What you have been learning, hearing about is how to tap in, how to recognize reality, how to deal and make your decisions and conduct yourself with what's really real and not all of the illusions that everybody is trying to sell you. And even in terms of the game and the pickup stuff, I'm learning the terminology now. I like that the game. And I like how it kind of is misapplied. Because I knew nothing about the pickup community before last year. And unfortunately, because of my schedule last year, I did not get to sit in on many of the presentations as I did yesterday. And I thoroughly enjoyed it because I found that when people say to me, like, why are you associating yourself with that 21 convention deal, those pickup artists guys? But when you really learn about it, it's not at all about how to go and pick up as far as, correct me if I'm wrong, but you're not learning to go and pick up a woman who doesn't want to sleep with you or be with you or talk to you. What you're learning to do is to get out of your own way, right? What you're learning to do is to recognize that as a human animal, by definition, you're sexually attractive to the opposite sex. Tell me one single animal species out in the wild who goes around saying, chicks just don't like me, see? But that's where the whole diet and stuff comes in, right? Because, because there are sexually unattractive people, males and females. But who did that to them? Right? So you got each diet squared away, your health squared away, your appearance squared away, learn how to dress. And then you still have to learn how to get out of your own way by, you know, getting, you know, overcoming your introversion as Greg. So incidentally, I've known Greg since about 1995, 94, 95, something like that. Long time. Yeah. I first took note of him when he was arguing with a guy in Usenet, Brad Asai, he was arguing with Greg and Greg replied, he said, you don't, don't you think I know who you are? Greg is a very perceptive person, so I really enjoyed his presentation. But yes, we have to, we've got the, Anthony is putting this together and it's all about, it's all these great ideas about the diet, the health, the, I mean, he's even had finance stuff. So it's all about becoming the best you. And when you're the best you, you are going to be sexually attractive to someone. And all of this pickup stuff is merely a way to make you to recognize that and to be confident in it and go out and find out which ones of those who want to be with you and make it happen. Okay. So it's a little intro. Good. It works. All right. So paleo epistemology and sociology. Now