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I was taught when I was a kid, but my daddy drilled it in my head over and over and over and over again.

What you follow the two most powerful words in any language with defines you.

And they are creative words.

And be careful every time you say, I am.

Follow those words with who you are. Who are you?

Well, here was the word.

I am here.

And although that sounds sort of so present.

Yeah, I was going to say it sounds sort of cheesy, right? I am here.

What does that actually mean? Does that have any real value? But that was what popped in my head when you just said that we didn't sit down and record any of this.

You said to me, let's not talk before we start here.

But yeah, present.

I am really trying in this crazy time that we live in that seemingly is getting crazier constantly.

And then when you add the technological component where everything seems to be getting sped up faster and faster.

Where we used to talk about a 24 hour new cycle. Now it's almost a minute by minute new cycle.

The way we wanted to destroy people and things and institutions that have been with us forever.

The way we want to just sort of ransack history and think that we can build everything new.

And as if you just have ideas today that have been born of nothingness and all of history was meaningless and all of these things.

I really try to be present.

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