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Zach, what a time it has been oh my gosh the Country is

is coming apart at the seams. The Capitol Hill riots were something out of some kind of

dystopian reality, and yet it is now our reality. It's incredibly painful, as we're recording this

Congress's considering impeachment, which I believe is necessary, and you can't not impeach

someone who sends a mob to your door that results in multiple deaths. And so, despite the fact

that Trump's going to be out of there one way or another in a week, I think that they need to impeach.

I read your book, as many of the people listening has podcasted, you predicted a lot of this,

at least in various versions, right? How do you feel watching it play out? I'm actually really curious

in where your brain is seeing, like, yep, we're talking about this for a while, and now it's

happening. Now we have to live it. Now we're talking about it. It's horrifying. And as bad as I

thought things were going to get, even I did not think they were going to get this bad this

quickly in this form. My big takeaway for people is that we should open our minds to the

possibilities, both positive and negative at this point. If you reflect on it, it's nearly

unthinkable, even our day to day, where when you walk around and see people with masks huddled

together, and then all the science saying, you know, like stay, home, stay safe, and whatnot. It's

like these are things that you would have imagined in 2019. You'd be watching a science fiction movie.

And then we went into that reality very quickly. Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their

lives from the pandemic. And I do think there's been this massive mental health toll on all of us.

If you take a population that was strained to begin with, I believe there are a lot of people

that are breaking right now. And when people break, they're breaking in different ways.

I agree with you. It's heartbreaking and terrifying, right? Where it's terrifying that this is a

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