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his knee-jerk reaction against a party like the AfD because of course of Germany's past. It's difficult to say. I have friends in different levels of society and the people, the handyman, the people you talk to on the street, they have no qualms in saying they vote AfD and it's nonsense what the elites are doing to the people of Germany as a country. You still have, of course, the elites saying, o…

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ersify who I'm listening to, listen to different podcasts, etc. And I just couldn't. I couldn't quit you, Scott. I kept on coming back and listening to you pretty much every single day. Every Spotify year wrapped was sort of boring because I was always in the top 0.1% of listeners to the Scott Adams podcast. And it's been amazing to be with you over the past ten years. And I just wanted to thank you for always being true to yourself, not allowing yourself to be bought by any interest or any sponsor or any media company. And I think I speak for a lot of people that that's one of the things that has kept us coming back over the past ten years is it always felt whether we agreed with you on everything or didn't agree with you on everything, I never had a doubt that you were saying your actual opinion pretty much all the time. So I very much appreciate that and I'm very appreciative of your commitment and consistency and your virtual friendship over the past ten years. And with that, I'm going to get back to the kids building choo-choo trains.

Well, you got your priorities straight. I like it. Let's see. Going to go wide here. I wonder how long it will take me to learn this. Do we have anybody else that would like to... I still want to say something, but I don't know if it's a good time or not.

Go ahead.

Okay. Well, thank you, Scott, for getting to talk to you right now. I always thought that I was going to get to see you someday in person, but I'm doing it through this and I'm very happy and I'm so happy to meet Shelly and that's an amazing testament of your awesomeness that your ex is there for you right now. I love that, you know, because not anybody can develop that relationship afterwards and that's amazing that you did that. So thank you very much. And yeah, you taught me that free will is an illusion and that's the most important thing because now I know that everything around me is affecting my behavior all the time. So I need to watch out for my surroundings. And that's why you are half of my five people basically. And I don't know what I'm going to do without you because I'm like a lot of you right now. And I'm going to learn to be more like everybody else too. So thank you very much. And hey, is that Gary?

That's Roman.

Roman. Hi, Roman. Well, that's it, Scott. Thank you very much. And any advice ever that you have for me or anything, let me know. Thank you.

So you know you're the best. You know, there's a half a dozen people who regularly participate and when I don't see all of you, I get disappointed. And there's something more than the news that has developed here. And the part I didn't anticipate is the bonding and the ability to feel like you're part of something. And I think that worked. It wasn't a top priority or anything. But once it started being a thing, that's the part that seems to be the most powerful. So over time, we will put on more of a, you know, why did you learn? How did you learn it? And but at the moment it feels appropriate that we're still struggling along and that the struggle is about how do you make the technology work in a way that works for everybody. So I hope you can see all the work that gets put into just trying to make this work. I swear to God this is probably easy but not to me. And I'll say again that the amount of pharmaceutical drugs I had to put into me yesterday so that I could function. It's the most I remember it. And just to give you an example, I've got a password that is very easy. You know, it's not any kind of weird crazy password, but with the help of a nurse and about twenty-five attempts, I could tell her what I wanted. And the funny thing was I couldn't spell it. So my password has...

Let's not talk about your password.

Yes. Tell us your password right now, please.

Yeah, let's not talk about your pas

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sword too much. That's why she's here. I'll just simplify it to say it should have been really easy. But it went like, I'm making this up so you can't really use it. It'd be like something like I would say, all right, the first part is squirrel. And then I try to spell it. It'd be like P J squirrel. A and squirrel. It was the damnedest thing. I've never been that hallucinogenic. That's awesome,…

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