And I don't know where you want to start, Sam, but I was thinking defining periodization for the listeners would be a great place, but I'm kind of happy to go where you want to go.

Yeah, maybe I'll start by defining it, and then maybe I'll tell a little bit about the story of how I came to write in this area, because I've written quite a lot.

Most of which had turned out to be controversial, completely unintentional.

And I think the reason I reached out, I was having so much fun in class talking about this.

And I often wonder if my class thinks I'm crazy because I'm teaching them these things and then I'm telling them, well, if you sit for this examination... you know, we learned this, but you're going to have to say this and, you know, you're going to have to make, you know, some, you're going to have to pretend to agree with certain things that some of you, I'm okay if you agree with it.

But in our class, we've had a different perspective.

So, yeah, I think my ideas in periodization are a little bit unique.

I threw a lot at you, but I'd love your thoughts.