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Back to episode — Episode 3067 ChattingWSA 01/09/26

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Ah, so good. Come on in. We're going to have a guest and you don't know who it is yet. And it would be really good. Do not have applesauce on me. I could really use a towel on my chest. Come on in. So I'll tell you what we're up to very soon. Going to use lots of napkins. So here's the plan. I'm going to test some guests who have already signed in but have not yet been approved. The technology w…

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hance. Okay. Might make everybody disappear.

All right. We got nine people but there are more. Most of the problems are on my end it looks like. I like it when you sit here and let me work out my tech problems.

All right, we'll go to duo. Ah, okay. That's duo mode. So if this were an official presentation I'd want you to look about where I look. If you can see the size and no ceiling.

All right, I'm going to be just struggling through this. So going to go to... there's a participant place where I can add more people. Invite participants. This is where my finger is doing things I don't want it to do. So 57 of them. Oh, I can scroll them. Okay. I was missing the scroll.

All right. We'll invite a few more people. Where am I? Why is it not accepting? Feel free to sip. Invite participants. Okay. How could this not be working? Reject.

Hey Scott, while you do that, would it be okay if I tell my story about how I came across you?

I'd love that. Yes.

Okay. So I grew up on your comics. You're probably about 10 years older than me. So I kind of always looked at you like the older brother or the smarter uncle. And I remember reading the comics. We had one of the worst bosses I've ever had. He would say things through the week and it would show up in your comics the next weekend. You know, something that the pointy-haired boss did. So we started clipping them out and putting them on his door and he would come into work and he'd read them and he wouldn't realize it was about him and he would just die laughing. He just thought they were the funniest thing. One day it came out that that was really him and he got so upset he just came and literally clawed everything off of his door because he was so pissed off.

And then of course I bought your books through the years, followed your comics, and I didn't reall

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y pay a lot of attention to politics. I knew this kerfuffle was going on with Trump during his first year. But then during COVID I was really looking for someone to help bring stability to my view. And you know we had the summer of love and all that kind of crazy stuff that was going on. And you really helped stabilize me. You reminded me that we had a dark period in the 60s and 70s of a lot of in…

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