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s no telling. We'll definitely be involved but to what scale? Hopefully not super invested in Iran. It's just too much of a risk I think. So if we don't get invested what's that going to look like? Well that shouldn't be as much of our concern as they're making it out to be. Honestly we shouldn't be involved in Iran to the extent of interceding. If there's protesters being hit as Trump mentioned…

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n't get stage fright or anything. But when it comes to talking with a group of people or being in a social situation that has been difficult for me historically. But one question that I found that has helped me with that is what are you thankful for? And you can ask that to somebody in an elevator. You can ask that to your cashier, to the person serving you at a restaurant. You can ask it to your family, to your best friend. And it's better than how are you because it doesn't demand sort of a pat answer. Makes them have to think about it. Makes them think about positive things. Even if they give you a pat answer back like oh my family or my job that gives me something to then say does your family live here? Or how long have you been working here? Something that just kind of gives me a genuine interaction with a human being. I'm a spiritual person but not everybody is. And so saying things like can I pray for you about something or something like that is sometimes a little too forward for people. But I don't think I've ever had anybody be offended by asking what they're thankful for. And so if there's other people watching that find it difficult to start conversations that's a great conversation starter and it'll give you someplace to go.

That is a really good tip because I can tell you're not intimidated by any kind of anything. Basically you're obviously a brave person who overcomes not a stage fright but you know what I mean. You know Dale Carnegie has this little list of things you should ask where do you work you know blah blah. Well yours will work. Yours would work every time because it makes people stop and think and it makes them stop and think about something positive. So that's a really good tip.

So what are you thankful for this morning, Scott?

You know what? I'm thankful that we're here and we're making this experiment and so far it looks like it works. Now we don't know how well it will still I'm still slurring my speech from the paralysis. We don't know how it will work if I'm not part of the mix. But what I'm seeing already is that people are polite, well-informed, and willing to sort of adopt a set of standards without being told. And that's actually exciting to me because I don't believe every audience would be able to do what we're doing right now which is taking turns, waiting, understanding the role and then being polite about it. So with that I want to thank you for this gentleman who's been waiting here a long time whose name I don't know. You have a black beard and some headphones on. If your microphone is on can you jump right in?

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d yet. Is your microphone off? Yeah. So we can't hear you. Can you hear me? Okay. There must be a microphone button somewhere on your screen. No. It should be in the bottom left or just the bottom. No. Okay. Can you hear me now? Yes. Weird. Yeah. My head's up for everything else. But yeah now is... Yeah. Thank you Scott. So yeah I just had a story about how you actually really helped me sur…

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