larifying his Trump opinions. I haven't heard it. But don't you think that if you hear his opinions you'll have a different sense than maybe you have right now? Right? He's a perfect example of somebody. If you hear Sam Harris say something that doesn't make any sense at all, you have to ask yourself if maybe the problem's on your end.

Now, when it comes to Trump, there really is a Trump derangement syndrome. In fact, Bill Barr said this in the interview just recently. He said Trump derangement syndrome is real. And I loved hearing Bill Barr say that because he's not exactly a fan of the president or President Trump. He's not a fan. So when he says TDS is real, that sounds pretty credible.

Well, I see some people are quite angry at the possibility the problem could be at their end. Does it make you angry to think that the possibility could be that the problem could be at your end? Because if it makes you angry to think that that's possible, then you have no hope of being independently intelligent because you're dealing on emotion, not intelligence. If you have any emotion over the thought that you might be wrong, sort of in concept, not even a specific wrong, but you just might be wrong in general, if that makes you mad, you're probably not equipped for intellectual conversations.

You admire my work ethic. I'm not sure you should. And so I spent probably, I don't know, I spent close to eight hours yesterday trying to sit in my chair for thirty minutes. And that's about all I could manage. And the reason is I can't sit in my chair. It's because the house is empty at the moment. So it's, I don't know if it's just a personal thing. Does anybody have that problem? That if your house is completely empty that you can't sit still. You have to leave because there might be people outside the house. It's really hard. I'm an introvert, so I can spend a lot of time alone. I can spend a lot of time alone. But I can only do it if I know that I don't have to. If it happens accidentally that I'm alone, I don't like it at all. Try a standing desk. I've tried that. Doesn't work for me. Yeah, buy another hottie. You know, that's not a bad idea. Please go see other people.

Has anybody become less social since the pandemic? Because it's not that I... Yeah, it's not like... Yeah, I feel like I lost something important in the pandemic because I find myself not wanting to socialize. And that's sort of different because even though I like being alone, I've always liked to socialize. And I have to admit this week I've been thinking about myself. I'm not even sure I want to have a conversation with a person in person. Writing while... Oh, you're writing a website. The place cafe background noise. So I've tried doing that. I tried playing like restaurant cafe sounds and it doesn't work at all. I don't know why. I have to turn it off right away. But if you're in an actual cafe or restaurant, it's actually easy to concentrate. I wrote an entire book sitting in a booth of a restaurant. I owned the restaurant so I could stay there as long as I wanted. But it was so easy to write during lunch. So as soon as the lunch noise started I could write like crazy. And as soon as the lunch died down it was just sort of the ordinary noise. Hard to write.

Well, during marriage we didn't have common friends too much. So start playing pickleball. Yeah, I don't know. I feel like nothing seems interesting anymore. Have you noticed that things are less interesting? Does anybody notice that? No, I don't think it's the news. It's like TV is not interesting. Movies are not interesting. Right? Well, this is still interesting, of course. This is the best thing that ever happened to you. Is it depression? I don't know. It might be. I do worry that there's like some mild depression thing going on. Like I don't feel it's not weighing on me or anything. But I suppose there's lots of variation there.

This is saving your day. Let's go back to this. How's it saving your day? You've talked yourself out of falling in love. That's true. Yeah, you know, let me tell you where I'm at. When you come out of a relationship, have you ever had this happen? Where for a while you can see the machinery too clearly. And that in order to get into another relationship you need to essentially fool yourself again. You need to enter the hypnosis again. Because if you were thinking clearly you wouldn't do any of the things that people do when they form relationships. And so you have to talk yourself out of thinking clearly to even have those experiences. But when you just get out of a relationship you can see clearly and it's very impactful on your choices. I don't know.

So somebody said why can't I just make friends? And I like people. You know, I like friends. But there's something. I just don't feel like it right now. And I don't know why. Like today I could easily find some people to be with. I have actually. I have an invitation that I said no to. It has nothing to do with the people or the event or anything. I just can't wrap my head around spending time with people at the moment. Somebody says just depression. But I don't feel depressed. I know what depression feels like. I mean, you know, it's that you just you don't want to walk up the stairs kind of feeling. I don't have that. I've got plenty of energy. If I had low energy then I would think maybe it's depression. But I don't. My energy is fine. But I'm getting a lot of work done on my book, so it's all good.

By the way, the book I'm working on, I'm almost worried how much impact it's going to have. Like I'm worried it will have too much impact. And here's why. I boiled in the book, I'm doing a bunch of reframes, you know, how to look at something differently. But a reframe that will give you an advantage. And some of the reframes are so powerful it's almost like a book of spells because they're all one-sentence reframes. So it's literally, let me take literally back, I'm overusing literally. It's li