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nterview at 4:20 p.m. Pacific time tonight? Say yes. Say yes. Yes. Well, many of you just begged for it. Yes. Okay, okay, I'll do it. I'll do it. All right, I said I'd do it. I said I'd do it. I'll do it. I promise I will. So tonight, 4:20 Pacific time — that would be 7:20 Eastern time — I'll be with Joel Pollak on Breitbart radio. If you're saying to yourself, how do I listen to that, just Googl…

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but in conjunction with my book *Reframe Your Brain*, which is available so far only on Kindle because Amazon has unspecified, possibly technical problems that are preventing the publication of my physical book — the book's done, it's ready to go — but in the independent publishing, let's say, pipeline, there seems to be some kind of a delay for my property. It's an unspecified technical, hard-to-explain, we-just-don't-know-what's-going-on, it's-going-to-take-us-a-little-while-to-look-into-it kind of a problem. That's the kind of problem.

Now if you're saying to yourself, Scott, this is clearly some kind of messing around with you, probably not. Probably not. It's probably just the way everything works. Let me put this in context. Pretty much every step of the independent publishing hits some kind of a problem. Like there's a password that doesn't work. There's just something you can't do. And every one of the processes, you have to kind of crawl through it and correct and adjust. You basically, you're just adjusting as you go. It's all about adjusting as you go.

So in the context of nothing working, just sort of in general, the most likely explanation is they're busy or there's some technical problem. Because I've heard a lot of other people have had issues that don't sound like they're political.

Now let me give you an example of how bad it is. I'm going to call this the national incompetence problem. How many of you wou

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ld agree that there appears to be a national incompetence problem to do anything, just most basic services? Let me give you an idea how bad it is. All right, this is how bad it is. I did something really stupid this week. Could you do me a favor and mock me for my stupidity over this? Just listen to how bad this is. I had to take my car in for service, and I knew that there might be some real iss…

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