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We're like a nation's kidney. We help everyone metabolize not just facts but feelings around facts or ideas.
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The speaker compares their role to a kidney serving a whole nation. The point is not only to help people process facts and ideas, but also to work through the emotions attached to them. Understanding therefore includes making sense of how people feel about information, not just absorbing the information itself.
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