I appreciate the transparency. [ And he sounds sincere, remarkably. ] Seriously. Because yeah, finding all this out two months from now probably would've pissed me off. My favorite kind of knowledge is the kind that's available to me, as you probably know.

But, on that topic—I was right on board and following along with everything you said until you slipped in an aside about planetary destruction. That's not really footnote material, you know? That's "this gets an entire chapter with six authors" material.