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Slack.com slash DHQ. Okay, another great week. Welcome, welcome, everybody. Welcome to

another week. I hope you had a wonderful joy-filled weekend. Mine, sadly, was mired by the fact

that for some reason I'm a football fan, a Ravens fan, even worse. And of course, they

lost to put them mildly. They lost in the divisional round of the playoffs. And the thing

is I was emotionally devastated. I was tormented, traumatized, broken, ruined, which is basically

how I feel at the end of every football season, except for the two where we went to the

Super Bowl and won. But then there's this moment that the next day and any sports fan,

I think, could probably relate to this. There's the moment the next day, maybe two days later,

after the season is over. And it feels like you're waking up from hypnosis or something.

And I always think, a couple of days later, after I have a little bit of distance, I think,

why do I care so much about this again? Why do I have emotional capital invested in the

outcome of a game played between people? I don't even know. Like, how would my life

be improved if my favorite team won a championship in the sport that I like? How is my life damaged

when they don't? Why does any of this matter to me? And I can't answer those questions.

I really can't. I don't know why it matters. Except to say that I think being a sports fan

is a form of psychosis. I think it could be diagnosed. I'm sure eventually it will be diagnosed.

In fact, I'm sure eventually the psychiatric industry will come up with a pill. They've

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