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Slack.com slash DHQ. Welcome to the show everybody. Thank you for listening. Hope you've

had a great morning so far. I don't mean to disturb you, but I want to start with two

stories. There are sort of harrowing stories that I want to tell just to start with because

it relates to the subject at hand. So here's the first story. These are both true stories,

by the way. Last week, I went into a cafe in DC and I really needed to use the bathroom.

So I went in and I said, where's your bathroom? And they said, bathrooms are for customers

only. And so clearly, the next thing that I did was I called the FBI because it was a

hate crime. I mean, how else can you respond to something like that? No, actually, what

I did was I said, Oh, okay. And then I bought a coffee and then I said, Can you hold the

coffee here for a minute? I'm going to use the bathroom because it's actually the concept

of a restaurant or a store only allowing customers to use the facilities. That's a really

normal concept in the world that I live in, which is just reality where a great many

stores and restaurants have that pulse. Now, here's the second story. Again, totally

a true story. This didn't happen to me, but I did witness it and I was traumatized by

it. I was at a Starbucks a few months ago and I was sitting there doing my work, my

name, my own business. There was a guy. It wasn't even that busy, by the way, but there

was a guy at a table, a few tables over from me. And he was, I noticed he was just sitting

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