n of a tabletop plasma. That was a microwave induced plasma which is like a big rectangular wave guide with a hole through the end and you shoot air through the end. Turn on the microwaves and you have something that looks like a little torch. And then what we would do is we would take effluent from an exhaust stream, run it through the plasma and then we would have fiber optics that would view the light that was emitted from the plasma. What would happen is if you had a metal particle flying through the gas it would get the electrons in the outer shells would get excited and then when they came back down within fraction of a millisecond it would give off light at a certain frequency and wavelength and you would detect that. So you could figure out in real time what was going through the gas stream. The problem was we could never really quantify it to say that oh you know there's this much going through it and my master's thesis concerned that topic and we did the best we could it was very sensitive so you could tell if something was going through it and when but that was about it and so there was a patent for that and I made a couple of minor contributions to it but didn't end up on the patent but that's okay because it never got commercialized. So did anybody notice me falling asleep?

Yeah, I was very... I'm sure you're very excited by that and I apologize.

So not because of your story.

It's definitely not because of your story.

Okay. All right. So it looks like we have... What is your name? Michael. Michael, turn off your microphone. Turn on you mean turn on your microphone. Oh, can't hear you. Not yet. Not yet. Turn on your microphone. Whoops. Disappeared. All right. Who do we have here? I can't see the name. Can you see her name? How about Patty? Patty? Is this Patty?

Hello? Can you hear me?

Yes, I can hear you.

I am so excited to talk to you. Good morning.

Good morning.

Morning. I said yesterday after which I couldn't participate in yesterday. I was at work and as the live stream closed I said tomorrow I'm going to talk to Scott Adams and I've spent the last hour trying to figure out how to get the link and I've finally figured it out and I've had so many interruptions in my home and I was like I am determined I'm going to talk to Scott today.

Well, here's your chance. Here you are. I you said something on your show the other day I wanted to address and I don't expect a response because this is a private thing for you but I do want to comment. People were suggesting titles for your book, I believe, and one of them was Escape from Prisoner Island. And you said, I didn't escape. And I thought, if you convert to Christianity, you escape.

Oh.

Jesus said he came to set the captives free. And I just wanted to tell you that because the minute you said it, I thought, no, no, no. You did escape. And...

Well, we'll find out what escape means.

Well, yeah, that is true.

So you have just been a joy for all of us. I've followed Dilbert from the very beginning. I used to think, I wonder what kind of person writes this because he makes me laugh every day. I have two Dilbert comics on my wall at work. My boss comes in and laughs about them and he doesn't realize that they're about him. I'm sure you hear that a lot.

Yep.

And you are the highlight of my morning every morning. And thank you for that.

Well, thank you for noticing.

You've changed my life.

Now, how does a comic change your life?

Well, it's not because you're a comic. It's I think because you're a sage.

Oh, thank you.

Did we figure out how to get our mic on there? I'm talking to Michael. Oh, he's no, we still can't hear you. So, Michael, there is a microphone on your side that must be activated and you can talk at the same time as Patty. It won't cut you off. So, Patty, was there anything else you'd like to add while Michael was looking for his microphone?

Oh, I hope Michael finds his microphone.

It's down at the bottom, Michael. It is at the bottom on the left. You have to press it a few times. I'll just jump in with a follow-up by ask about the GDP rate. There actually have been several times when it's been higher than 5.4% but it's always been during an economic recovery. So if you remember the early eighties and the late nineties when we were really hot the economy. Of course the late nineties was right before the dot-com bust, but those are the only times it's been that way. The only other really exceptional one is during the pandemic recovery. It got really high even thirty-four percent one quarter, but that's kind of an anomaly.

All right. So, Michael, you might be dyslexic because you can because you're confusing microphone with video. So one of them should be off.

I thought of something else I'd love to tell you, Scott.

Yeah, go ahead, Patty.

I have a teenage grandson that is he's very insecure. He just has a lot of issues going on. And he was with me recently and y