Come on in, everybody. It's really good to see you this morning while all the lazy podcasters sleep in or go to church or go to the gym or whatever they're doing. But they're not doing this. And aren't you glad I'm here? Yeah.

So before we get going, let me tell you, you know what's the best thing in the world? Getting up at 4:00 a.m. I love getting up early, sitting there with a big cup of coffee, steaming cup of coffee, and then starting to look at the news of the day. I love that.

But recently I realized that it's even better when you've got a flannel blanket on your lap and a cat is purring and loving its time sitting on your lap while you're working. And while working, it's not really even work. But when you've got that delicious cup of coffee. But then today I discovered something better than a cup of coffee at 4:00 a.m. with a cat on your lap on a flannel blanket. Two cats. I had two cats fighting for position on my lap.

Well, it became sort of a catastrophe because one of those cats got dangerously close to the large cup of coffee. And I said to myself, well, if there's one thing I want to avoid, it would be a cat knocking over that very large, still totally full cup of coffee on my desk area and all over my cables and every kind of electronic that I've ever owned.

And so I said to myself, well, I'll eliminate that possibility by lifting the cat with one hand while I hold the other cat from maybe getting into the same nonsense. And so I try to lift the cat with one hand, and well, there was a struggle. One of the cat's legs spazzed out in a cat-like fashion, perfectly striking the large cup of coffee off its coffee warmer. So you add a little bit of height on the coffee warmer and somehow managed to drench coffee in what I would g