That was a long, extended, delayed opening of the can, the end of the week.

I'm Jared Yates Sexton.

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My friend, Nick Houseman, how are you?

I'm good, I'm good.

And I think that what we're seeing a little bit is that notion of relying on the automatic, just you're so used to saying things and your mind kind of goes somewhere else. And next thing you know, you're like Elvis trying to do the talking part of, are you lonesome tonight? I mean, listen, most of the time, completely on. The analysis is right there. The thoughts, the insight, all right there. Occasionally, you get into the automatic mode and you skip. It's, for me, it's like playing guitar. You get into a flow state with playing the guitar. You can't do anything wrong. You think about playing the guitar. Oh, God, Nick, that's trouble right there. Well, you know what's funny about that is I get in that flow state I can remember,

and then someone might walk in the room, kind of like I didn't quite see it over the shoulder,

and it startles me. I get scared. Like, I'm so in that zone, and then they break me out of that, and I get, you know, it's an interesting. Flow states, am I right? Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, it's funny even speaking about the Elvis, the famous one where he forgets the words.

Sorry, you know what, he ends up saying, blah, blah, blah, blah, plus tax.

And guess what, Jared, we got to talk about taxes a little bit today.

Unfortunately.

The tariffs and all sorts of things.

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