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rsational speed, it's going to be pretty awesome. And it will give you better privacy, presumably. Are you following the story of Grace Price? She's the teenage kid who's, well, I don't know if teenage is, is she still a kid? I don't know if she's 18 or not. But she's got a documentary about how our lifestyle and food especially are giving us cancer. And she had a stat that she has from a source…

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doing. But I'm aware of it. You know that sometimes the best you can do about your own bias is just to do a little audit and say to yourself, all right, if this situation were a little different or if this person telling me were a little different, would I be receiving this differently? And the answer is yes. So basically I'm hearing what I want to hear from Grace Price. And so to me it all looks very scientific and factual. And by the way, I really think that. But I'm also aware that if I were wrong, I would think the same thing. So I've got that little bit of self-filter. But it's not stopping me. I still say she looks right to me. But just be aware of it.

Well, I think the concept, the topic of loneliness is becoming a bigger and bigger issue. And I think there's no end in sight for that. There's nothing that looks like it's changing it immediately. It will get fixed like everything. We'll fix the loneliness problem. But even Kathy Griffin was saying in public, and somehow I think this is useful. I like it when public figures talk about their own experience. I like it less when public figures tell me what kind of apples to eat and stuff like that because I think they're outside their expertise. But when somebody just tells me about their own experience and it's some universal relatable thing, yeah, do that please.

So here's what Kathy Griffin says. And by the way, I remind you I know that a lot of you have a political opinion about her that's negative. But I've worked with her. She was the voice of Alice in the Dilbert animated show. And I really like her. So Kathy Griffin in person, very, very likable. You'd like her too. Anyway, she says, I guess she got divorced recently. She says, divorced women, I'm talking to you. I am four months divorced and I feel weak because I just can't get used to waking up alone in the hotel room, blah blah blah. And I'm having trouble adjusting. Any of you ladies out there, how did you get to a place where you can enjoy waking up alone? And she has some dogs. She brings one with her.

She says, now without dwelling on her specific case, I like the fact that she could be a famous public figure and that she can say with great vulnerability that loneliness is really a crippling problem for a lot of people.

Now the only thing I can add to this story that would be useful is that, as you know, I have a subscription service on the Locals platform, scottadams.locals.com. Many of them are watching right now. But I also do, for the subscribers, I do a private man cave just about every night from my garage-slash-man-cave. And although I didn't design it this way, it wasn't designed for this purpose, there's a good rule in marketing that the audience tells you what your product is. If you've ever heard that, you don't tell your customers what your product is. You try. I mean, that's what marketing is. But in the end they tell you what the prod

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uct is. They tell you why they bought it and what it's good for and why they're going to buy it again. And apparently the man cave turned into a lot of people who don't have anybody to talk to during the day. It has something like a personal experience because when I do the man caves I'm just interacting with the comments the entire time. So it's like a conversation for shy people. Like if you're…

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