ing right now, let me call it out. You're saying, "Oh my god, that would be like having a stranger spying on you in your own house, and you would never know when they were looking and when they weren't looking. That is the worst robot idea I've ever heard in my entire life. Get out of here, Scott. Stop it. We don't want to live in small homes. No tiny homes. Get out of here with your 15-minute homes." Of course, we're not talking about any of that, but that's usually what I hear.

But now let me give you a reframe. You ready? I would buy that robot tomorrow. And I would allow a complete stranger into my house when I didn't know if they were watching. Do you know why? Because I'm a senior and at the moment I need something like full-time care. At least somebody in the neighborhood who could call the 911 if I need it. I don't need much, you know, not hands-on. I don't need any hands-on care yet. But if you didn't have a family member or a friend who could look after you when you're in your declining years, you would totally take the robot. You would totally take it. And if somebody said, "Oh, it's not always a robot. Sometimes there's a human in it." Do you know what I'd say? Better. That's better.

And then somebody say, "But they'll be spying on you." In which I'll say, "Have I mentioned I'm a senior? What the hell do you think I'm doing in my house? Do you think I'm running Burning Man in my house? If you spied on me, you'd see me sitting in a chair, zoned out on painkillers, waiting for my next dose, or you'd see me just staring at my phone while it plays reels. What the hell do I think I'm hiding? I'm not hiding anything. If they saw me doing bongs, do you think they'd call the police? It's legal. I don't do anything illegal." So yes, there's a niche in which a totally steal-your-privacy robot could insert a total stranger from another country into my house and I'd be okay with it because it'd be better than the alternatives. Now, in my case, I have human alternatives, so I don't need the robot, but you know what I mean. Not everybody has that option.

Hurricane Melissa has hit Cuba. I guess it was a category 3 storm by the time it hit Cuba. And it was a category 5 storm when it hit Jamaica. So it did Jamaica some badness. You know, I've been thinking a lot about Cuba lately because of the Venezuela thing and the odds that if Venezuela's oil revenue no longer props up Cuba that Cuba would become immediately a really big problem for Cub