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Question for you before we begin. Has anybody noticed a strange energy in the world lately? I'm not talking about electricity, but in my personal life, just the details of just getting stuff done just went crazy in the last week. Just crazy. And the world seems to have gone crazy too. The news is just packed with stuff. You know, sometimes you've got low news days. The news is just packed with all kinds of crazy stuff. But same with my personal life. You know, I'm not talking relationships exactly, just everything.

For example, smallest example: Every month I give my dog Snickers a flea pill. A flea pill. It's easy. You put it in a little treat, you give it to the dog. This month I go to give it to her and she chews the good stuff and spits out the pill. And she does it several times. I'm like, I'm gonna have to trick her by getting a new kind of pill pocket, you know, a better treat so she'll eat the whole thing without knowing there's a pill in there. But they're out of stock, so I can't find them. I spend weeks looking for them. I finally find the right treat. I go to put a pill in it but apparently I'd thrown them away or somebody threw them away. But they're prescription, so I can't easily replace them.

So I call my veterinarian to get the prescription to replace the ones that are lost, to put in the pill pockets that had to be replaced, for weeks of training to put into my dog. And my veterinarian says, yeah, we can do that, but we have a requirement that we check the dog out for, I don't know, heartworm or something. So now I went from a process that is here you go, Snickers, boom, done, to something that will take days to work out. Like I've got, I had to set up an appointment. I gotta get my dog checked out. And do you think the veterinarian is gonna find nothing wrong with my dog? Of course they will.

So just this simple process of putting a pill in my dog turned into a life-changing event that will consume me now. Multiplied that by everything that happened in the last week. It's just out of control. Is anybody having the same experience or is it just a weird coincidence? Just wondering. There's some weird energy in the world and I think there's too much energy and not enough places for it. Do you feel that? I feel that.

The energy in the country far exceeds the activity. You know what I'm talking about? Do you know how like you just got to do something but you don't have anything productive to do so you're going to go do

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something bad because you got to do something? You got to do something. I feel like the country has too much energy. Am I right? Because we can't quite do enough. Way too much energy. It feels like a war coming. That's what it feels like. It feels like the energy has to go somewhere and it's going to go somewhere and we don't know where it's going to go. But as soon as there's a, I don't know, a b…

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