Stop me if you've heard this before.

When the ocean caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico,

Twitter has been sold to Elon Musk.

Will Smith to smack the shit out of it?

Was any of that new to you?

Did any of it make you feel good?

After the stunning leak of what is reportedly a draft opinion,

suggesting the court will strike down Roe v Wade.

Climate change is now rapid, widespread, and intensifying.

That is according to a devastating report by the U.N.

The staple signage is now gone in the crypto.com arena signage is going on.

Or are you like most Americans who, according to polls at least,

definitely do not feel that way about the future.

If that describes you, let me start with a simple promise.

I'm not here to say you're wrong.

The news is filled with gloom and doom.

There's a pandemic, obviously, and runaway climate change.

Global authoritarianism is on the march.

Some of you may have noticed the Congress is broken.

Social media is turning us into angry zombies.

And not the slow-kind from classic George Romero films.

But the ones that can run really fast,

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