Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the optimistic show that makes you feel better every time. Are you watching the other news-related programs and wishing that you could end your life? No, don't do it. Don't do it. Watch Coffee with Scott Adams every day and I'll put the positive spin on the bad news because, you know, sometimes it's good.

And if you think that I'm leading you toward the golden age, I am. Here's a little tip: I'm not predicting the golden age. I'm only pretending to predict it. I'm actually causing it to happen.

And what's happening right now is that I'm nudging you onto what I call the wait for it, wait for it, listen carefully... Oh, YouTube just went offline. Is that weird? Right before my punchline. So, uh, YouTube's offline. Hey, I'm back. Can you actually see me on YouTube? Nope, just lost me again. So YouTube just lost me again, huh?

I'm gonna run a speed check on my Wi-Fi. Speed check here. You can watch, see how we're doing. Well, that looks good. So it doesn't look like a Wi-Fi problem, right? Looks pretty good. Let's see if YouTube's back. That can't be on my side, right? It is. Anybody technical enough to verify that? You're only as fast as your slowest point, yeah, of course.

Oh, hey, hello. Are you back? Can anybody on YouTube tell me if YouTube is having a problem or is it just my feed? Because I have a good feed-ish on Locals.

All right, well, let's take it from here. You know, you may have interrupted my flow. Have you noticed that if I lose my flow at the beginning of the show, I never recover? Has anybody ever noticed that sometimes I just have to give up? Anyway, losing my flow is actually my biggest problem that I have, you know, working at home.

All right, all right, it looks like we've recovered, everybody. Good. You want to pretend like it never happened? Well, let's