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Perfect. All right. Everything's going to go well now from now on. And I finally figured that if I watch your comments on my phone, I can pause them so I can really see what's going on here. The show will just get better and better every time. Did I leave something out? It's going to take me a while to get back on plan.

All right, here's the real secret of today's show. You want to know a behind-the-curtain secret? I don't know if it's because of the meds, but I had plenty of sleep last night, you know, relative to what I usually get. However, I'm very aware that my IQ is down about 40 percent this morning. And you probably have asked yourself, Scott, it must be difficult to do a podcast because you have to kind of quickly catch up on all these complicated stories and then summarize them and put them in order and then make some kind of interesting observation. It's really hard. I don't know if you've ever taken the time to think about it, but it's not like I have a team of writers or anything. I do this myself. So in order to make this work, this podcast, I need every bit of my mental capacity. Do you know how much I have available to me this morning? Not every bit. I'm not even close to being smart enough to do the thing that I'm going to attempt to do right in front of you. I'm really mentally degraded at the moment.

This morning while I was putting my notes together, I woke up five times, which means that without trying, I was just workin