Hey everyone, Scott R. Anderson here.

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Just $10 a month will make a world a difference in helping us keep lawfare free to everyone for a long time to come. Mike, I have to say, you know, for folks who listen to the podcast, don't watch the video,

they may not be aware that we've gotten to see the gradual evolution of your new home

office since you've relocated.

And I got to say, I'm pretty impressed. You got wooden shelves up. That might be a drop leaf table behind you, I think I'm seeing. And I will say I'm particularly impressed slash a little embarrassed because I've been in my house for six years and still have not really got effectively set up a home office. And yet you've beat me by a half a decade. So congratulations on that front. Well, what you find impressive, my wife finds

infuriating because this is the room I set up first before our baby. And I don't think our listeners

or viewers could tell, but these books are pretty fastidiously organized. I have a series of

photographs of my bookshelves for every time I move, which I used to do

fairly frequently because, for example, with fiction, I organize it chronologically by date of the

author's birth. Most movers are not sympathetic to that and willing to box off the book

and make sure that Milton is in the right

place vis-a-vis Gerta, you know, vis-a-vis antiquarians. You know, this is where my overly

organizational tendencies reveal themselves in the most obnoxious, pretentious way possible.

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