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Brandt's book, Unoffendable, check out brantanson.com. People have said, hey, Brandt, you're not smooth.

You have some social issues, and I have come a long way with this where I know how to strike up a conversation.

Normally I don't get small talk.

I don't understand humans.

I don't understand why they do this stuff they do.

But now I come armed with facts.

And this is your way of socializing with people.

Yes.

Just giving them facts.

Because they'll invariably, they're really stunned.

Do you think they're stunned because they don't want it?

They don't want the fact?

Oh, no, they want the facts.

I just mean, I'm just like, wow, that is so interesting.

But you got to have something and you tie it in with whatever's going on in the world.

For example, here's the thing.

Let's say we're on a plane.

If you want, and then what we'll do here is, like, we'll say Sherry's getting on the plane.

I'm already sitting here. So you're sitting down, buckling in.

Okay.

Insect tissues.

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