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ent. I think everybody would agree with that. But if you're distracted, and maybe I'm just speaking for myself, it's because there's something you're looking for that you need that you don't have. Now that's my take. This is not agreeing with any scientists or anything. I have no idea what the scientists say. But my take, whenever I'm distracted, is not so much that there's just too much in my hea…

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me oxytocin, that feel-good "I've got everything I need" chemistry? And that's all it was. So that's my hypothesis, is that it wasn't the physical manipulation or the relaxing, although that should have helped because it pretty much helps with everything. So if it didn't help, I'd be surprised. But maybe the bigger thing is that people don't have enough oxytocin.

So here's what I would study to find out. I take a bunch of kids who have ADHD, and then I would ask them questions like, when was the last time you got hugged? Because I'll bet you'll find that the kids with ADHD probably get hugged less, and they had less oxytocin. Just a guess. It's speculation. Pure speculation.

All right, I see a weird meme going by with Dilbert and a Tesla. Okay, anyway, there's a topic I don't know if I want to talk about, but I might. Yeah, I'm going to. I'm just going to go for it. So I wasn't going to talk about this, but I will. So somebody that I don't know who it is says they are fans of Dilbert and fans of mine have created a crypto that I guess is called a Dilbert, and they've asked me to promote it. I'm not doing that. I'm asking them to take it down and dismantle it if there's any way to do that. I don't know if you can reverse it.

Here's why. Well, on one hand I take it as a great compliment that somebody wanted to boost Dilbert somehow and boost me a

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nd their fans. But you can't create a sketchy financial product and associate it with my name and my brand and then push me to boost it. Do you understand that you put me at great financial and other risk? Because if other people see the Dilbert name on it, they're going to say, well, that's probably endorsed by Scott, and therefore it's probably safe. He probably looked into it. I did not look in…

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