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0:40by my co-host and our resident PhD, Krishna Chaudhary. We are celebrating our one-year anniversary of From First Principles. It's incredible that we've made it this far, and so many of you, 50 million of you across the world, have joined us in our first year on the show. 13 million of you are now watching every month as we journey through discovery, curiosity, and science at the frontier. We're extremely, extremely grateful for all of you in FFP Nation who've been very vocal about what you like and what
1:20you don't like. And we've really taken that to heart as you've seen us evolve the show over our first year. Again, it is the two of us here. No production staff, no agency, no network, just two friends of almost, I think, 16 years now, >> Yep. >> trying to just figure out the world around us as much as we can and as a small token of our appreciation for so many of you following us, as well as an ability for us to better learn about who you all are and what you want from the show as we enter year two, we are going to have a merch giveaway for our year
2:01one merch at ffpod.com/survey. There are a couple of questions that will help us understand a little bit more about our listeners, who you all are, where you're working, what you care about, what you want us to do on the show as we go into our year two now that we've figured out all of the sound issues and the camera issues and other production problems, we really want to focus on community building and making sure that we are making the show collectively because at the end of the day this would not be a show without all of you out here in FFP [clears throat]
2:42Nation. We do have a story that we will cover about the history of the Amazon and as you notice just in front of us, we have some books that we will be adding to the inaugural From First Principles library, which is three floating shelves. Yes. >> [laughter] >> We're going to expand it though. We'll expand it. We'll expand it. We'll eventually get a building. And the first iteration, we've got some bangers. We Yes. And we did ask the audience for some suggestions and some of those suggestions did make it into the library. As always, we're going to talk about the science from the ground up today because this is From First
3:23Principles.