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have a little thunderstorm, little thunderstorm here in Osaka.

I guess not really a thunderstorm. There's no thunder, but just a quick

little patch of rain so a little hard rain for a short time.

Summer afternoon.

Osaka, Japan,

I'm standing outside of the coffee shop right now so I don't bother the people inside.

I like to talk about children today, a little more about children, because in the last few

live shows that I've done, I've gotten some comments about kids.

Usually it's during the shows about money,

the rich dad, poor dad, book club shows, or the business shows that I've done.

And I've gotten these comments several times about 12 traffic here a little truck going by.

Basically the comments all have a similar idea and the idea is that the reason I have to spend money, the reason I can't cut my expenses, the reason I can't go down to my baseline, the reason I can't live super simply and cheaply is because of the children.

I think of the children. Right, so I've gotten several of these comments during the live shows.

Using children is the excuse.

Oh, because, you know, we've got to spend more money because of our children.

It's for the children!

This is a lame excuse.

lame means weak and bad.

So let's talk about the children, shall we? Now you've heard those shows, so you've heard my comments already.

In my opinion, but I'm going to be a little more detailed about it today.

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