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Today, in society, there's so much what I call, you know, boiling pot of water lobster behavior out there.

And the point being is, if you take a, what, you take a big old pot of water and you put it on the stove and it's cold water and you put a lobster in there and you bring it to boil,

the lobster is really never going to, he's never going to really move around.

He's just kind of going to take it.

He's just going to kind of accept his fate.

But if the water is boiling and you try and throw him in there, he's probably going to throw a fit.

But, you know, the point is, is that most of society, most investors today, I think are like the live lobster in a big pot of cold water as it's slowly coming to a boil.

And they don't know.

And I guess I was somewhat inspired even to bring that up because I was thinking the connections here are entirely crazy because dance this mess around was another B-52's song, and that was

what got me into the lobster song.

But those were both inspired from a quote that I saw from

Christopher Hitchens, the author, provocateur, debater, challenger, skeptic, who unfortunately

passed away last year from cancer. And Hitchens, I actually briefly met him in person on the

Excella going to New York from D.C. one time.

Didn't really get a chance to talk with him much, but he had this great quote the other day.

And essentially, a defiance quote.

Now, if you're a lobster and you're in the water and it's cold and it's starting to get hot

and you're not really doing anything, there's not much defiance there.

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