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Slack.com slash DHQ. So this topic will be maybe a little bit of a change of pace. A couple

of days ago, at the end of the show, I mentioned a horrific encounter that I had in an elevator

and it was a horrific encounter because someone spoke to me. Someone made small talk and

that's a horrifying thing. There's nothing worse than small talk in an elevator because

it's this enclosed, quiet environment where you cannot escape. Sometimes you can't escape

for up to 20 to 30 seconds and that is 20 or 30 seconds of torture. Now, I said that when

I am dictator of America, I will impose a new regulation for bidding any conversation

of any kind in an elevator upon penalty of death and also requiring that elevator music

must be played in elevators so as to alleviate the awkwardness of the silence. Now, some

people emailed me after that discussion and they were very confused and they said, you

know, what's the matter with small talk? Matt, are you shy? Are you anti-social? Do you

hate people? Why do you hate small talk so much? It's pretty rude. Seems like a pretty

rude thing for you to not want to make conversation with a person. It's pretty rude that you don't

want to talk to somebody on an elevator. So on and so forth. Now, what you find in these

responses is something that people in my community, that my people, okay, that would be introverts,

deal with every day. We are painfully misunderstood and that's even though I assume half the country

is probably comprised of introverts or at least the very large percentage. Even so, we

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