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All right. If you're just signing on this morning, there's some kind of massive cloud problem that's taking down X. For most of the morning I thought it was taking down Locals. I tried to do the pre-show but it glitched me out. I couldn't get on. But when I just logged on, it looks like Locals might be working.

All right, so here's what I thought I would do. Something like a hundred thousand people are going to sign on here expecting to see my regular show. Do you think they're going to see it? I had no ability to prepare because I use X as my, you know, 80% of all my preparation goes through X directly or indirectly. So I decided that what I would do is we'll do some reframes, but I'm also going to demonstrate something just so you can see it live.

And what I'm going to demonstrate is what to do when all of your plans have been destroyed and you have to do something in public. So I'm now entering the scariest thing that an adult can do. It's very much like you're going to a test and you forgot to study or you're going in for the last day of school and you forgot your assignment. So you get to watch while you see if I can navigate this situation. Will it be easy? No, it will not be easy. Can I do it? Well, I don't know. We'll see.

But I think it's fair to say that most people would have a nightmare showing up unprepared for a test. That's what I'm doing right now. I'm going to show you how to survive it. Easy, really.

So here's the first trick for surviving when everything goes wrong. Your audience doesn't know what you were planning to do. So they can't tell it went wrong. They just know maybe it's not what you did yesterday. So if you can pull it off, try to sell it as normal.

I was thinking today how talented the conservative podcast world is. And I was trying to think how many people who have podcasts, who have conservative audiences, how many of them could just sign on and do an hour of content without preparation? And the answer is about a lot of them. About a lot of them. Could Benny Johnson do that? Probably. Could Megyn Kelly do that? Definitely. Could all the people who are the main hosts on Fox News do that? Yeah. Greg, Jesse, Kennedy, they could all do that if they had to. Victor Davis Hanson. Sure.

So it does seem like some people are just born to do this. Maybe I'm in that category because I feel comfortable doing it.

All right. Is anybody yet horrified because you're thinking to yourself, I'd hate to be him right now because he's going to do a whole show with no preparation? Oh, I got stories. I got plans. Yeah, it's not completely without preparation.

So I've told you many times I took the Dale Carnegie c