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Now, getting distracted, I'll say this over and over again. Control the controllables. Everything else is just a soap opera you don't have time for. Control the controllables. And people need to identify what is controllable, what is not controllable. Yes, you do have to push back against the disinformation. But in the way you push back about disinformation is to show people what right looks like. And there's a lot of technique to that. So you show people what right looks like. You don't get into the personal battles. That's not a thing. That's soap opera, right? So you have to create this venue and this opportunity for people to see what right looks like. And you guys are doing that on your show right now. This is what you're doing. You're showing people what right looks like. By telling them, hey, can you identify truthful, believable, neither or both? Can you identify what are the controllables? Are you getting taken off task? Are you spending seven hours a day on social media finding these things to react to that you really don't have any control over? Do you need to do that? I preach a lot about digital hygiene, digital health. I think a digital discipline. I think all that stuff is so important, especially in today's world, because it can really spin you out and it can keep people neutralized. You're not taking care of your family. You're not taking care of your kids. You're not taking care of your home because you're spending all your time on social media and it may or may not be having any effect. So I think there's smarter ways to do that. And I think people are getting smarter about that. Tech addiction is a real thing. And I can prove that because I tell people, Turn off your phone for two hours a day during waking hours. And if after about seven minutes you start making excuses to get on your phone, well, that sounds a lot like addiction behavior. I know when I was addicted to opiates, after I got off active duty, I remember I would be calling down the pharmacy two days ahead of time. Hey, you guys are going to have my prescription ready, right? Yeah, we're going to have it ready. What time is the pharmacy open? Nine o'clock in the morning. Okay, great. I'm there at 8.50 p.m. First one in line, grabbing my ticket, and I would get that bottle of Vicodin or morphine or hydrocodone or whatever the hell it was they were giving me, and I would challenge myself to get to the front door before I took a dose, and I never made it. I never, ever, ever made it. That's addiction behavior. People have that same type of addiction behavior with technology. this tech addiction. And it's, it is the crack of our day. And if people, what the sad part about it is people are addicted to this, this tech. And what do they do? Their kid turns three years old and they give them an iPad. Okay. And they show them how to get online. They give them all these programs. There's AI systems. Now who's teaching your kid. You just gave your kid crack. So you could go do more crack. This doesn't make sense. And we got to step away from that tech addiction. Now, On that topic, because I think that's a pretty good segue to start thinking about what we're dealing with now and where we're moving at in the future and what we can expect over the next four years in the sense of the delivery and the augmentation of information.