ship that was really struggling at the time. So I found a really great meaning by being useful to other people and being more present for people because my addiction and things like that made me very absent in a lot of people's lives and I wasn't being as useful as I could be. So I just wanted to thank you so much for everything that you've done for us and I'm really grateful for all the time you've done, all the things you've done for us. I've watched you every single day ever since the day you got cancelled and I'm really grateful for your generosity.

That's what I do it for. You are the reason that this has meaning for me. And when you tell me it has extra deep meaning because you want to go through this world knowing that you made an impact and a good one. And so I've told you this story of course how after my divorce I pledged myself to the world and hoped that there would be some kind of ripple effect that went forward. So it means a lot to me when you tell me that. Thank you.

Thank you Mr. Adams.

Let's see if we can get some topics about the world. Okay if you've been on a while could you turn off your camera and we'll get some new people who come up here. And if there are some new people who have been... Good morning.

How are you?

I'm good. How are you?

I'm great thank you. It's nice to connect with you and this is a really fun format that you have going on. I like the fact that people are not walking over each other and everybody's being polite. I wasn't sure that would be the case.

Do you have anything to say?

Yeah I'll keep it brief. I just want to say a thank you. You've been a great guide in this crazy world especially as a young person. And things that you have taught such as talent stacks, systems over goals and embarrassment have been really crucial lessons in my successes and my continual successes. The path I took in life was to learn this crazy niche trade of making neon signs. And to learn this and to be successful really required each one of these systems to ensure my success. So again thank you and a daily listener for a very long time now.

Good. I'm glad that worked out. Thanks for telling me. I'm going to give one tip to the caller just above you. To move your face away from the screen a little bit.

My arms are only so long Scott. So you know I'm on my phone so that's about as far as I can go.

Much better. Much better.

I apologize.

All right. So I go by Heisenberg because I'm in the occupied state of California and

That's better. That's good.

There we go. I guess it was also the clipping from the other people on the screen. So it clipped up my video.

So really appreciate you and everything you've done. I just I don't know if you recall any of the comments I've made or anything but I'm a cancer survivor. I had bladder cancer and a pretty severe bladder cancer and so I kind of walked with you here in this journey here. So my result has been good so far for 10 years. So nice but I really appreciate that you fought the fight and you continue to fight it because we love to have you here with us as long as we can.

Wow. Nice. Yeah. Well I guess I feel like a... You got to clean right here.

This is the problem with this model. My lips are paralyzed. Yep.

Got it.

You got it.

Now isn't that better than just listening to a podcast of me?

Well I guess yeah. So lots of love from everybody here. Everyone's really happy to see you every day. So thank you.

Looks like somebody below you wants to make a comment in the orange.

Hi Scott.

Hi.

How you doing?

I'm good.

Excellent.

Did you have anything to say about international affairs?

To be honest it's very fascinating and I'm just pretty much an observer. I just have to pay attention and see what everybody's got to say about it. I like to look at it from the most logical perspective. And I'm getting a lot of that from you. And I recently joined Locals I want to say about three weeks ago and I did it because you actually remind me of my dad and he's not with us anymore. He passed away in 2004 and yeah I just kind of stumbled across everything. I'm a late bloomer I'm going to be honest. And yeah it's you know I do I've been watching a lot of stuff on X. That's mainly where I get my news. And of course Locals. Been here every morning since I've joined.

Wow. I can't hold my... I'm on my phone. I tried to use my computer. I couldn't figure that one out. It's morning time and I'm in my morning. I got the silly hat on. I apologize for that. But it's not real warm in my house. I'm in lower Michigan. Real windy.

Well thank you for joining and thank you for... I'm glad I figured it out and thank you. I'm really glad to talk to you. I never dreamt that I'd get to actually talk to you.

I was just talking to another cartoonist yesterday about how in our early days when we were single and if I do a book signing there'd be a long line of people wanting to get their book signed. And I'd look in the row and it'd be man man man. And then there would be one attractive woman and I'd say to myself it seems that I'm very attractive to some women because they're standing in line to get my book signed. And then when they come up every single time the woman would say oh my father loves you. Can you sign this for my dad? Well that's my ego would go.

No you actually look like my dad. I wish I could show you a picture of my dad. I don't have a way of doing it but you really resemble my father.

I am your dad.

I think you might be an incarnation. It's pretty wild. He was a very logical-minded guy. When I was very little I didn't even pay attention to anything about politics. And he told me that Biden is a crook. And I was pretty young. I might have been like 14. I'm going to be 64 pretty quick. And I remembered him saying that. And then I just started kind of paying attention to stuff and at the time I wasn't voting or anything obviously I was pretty young and then when I got older I always voted conservatively and started paying a little bit of attention to stuff but as I got older I started paying a wee bit more attention and learning you know there's some pretty interesting stuff but then when President Trump got elected on his first term is when everything kind of went from darkness to light. That's when it was like the big reveal when we really started learning about the stuff that we didn't get access to before. And then it really just snowballed. I mean it was amazing. And then when Elon bought Twitter I mean that just saved us all. That's probably saved maybe the entire world. I know that's a big thing to say. And it's a great time to just be aware of what's going on.

Yeah amazing time. I'm trying to multitask here and describe what's that?

Oh I was just wondering it's really intimidating coming up on camera in front of all these people and everything. Do you think maybe we should offer some people to just talk from the waiting room on audio only?

Well that's what I'm trying to figure out. Is that... Well all they have to do is unmute their mic and talk. And so if we just invite them I think they might.

But the video would be there right?

The video is not going to be up in... So you're in auto mode. So it only pulls people up if but I think they can unmute from the. Can somebody try to unmute and say hi from the waiting room?

Yo yo yo.

Okay. Who is that? Jeff.

That was... So you could all hear Jeff but you cannot see him. Right.

Right.

And we don't know who it is. The people that are just watching won't know who it is if they don't tell us.

Okay.

Yeah. I think there are only 15 people in here and it seems like most people who wanted to speak have come on camera and talked already. Maybe there's some because I'm already looking for Owen and I see that Owen volunteered but I do not kn