There's a word called Kismet.

Not quite sure what it means, but what I think it means is sometimes the stars align.

And Dan and Danny, as you know, we book our guests months in advance.

And months ago, we asked Vinny and Porter to come visit us here to do the podcast.

Now, it just so coincides with all the things that both of

those guys, as well as Danny Moses, have been talking about ad nauseum. It's sort of the

culmination of all these things. So it's amazing that they're with us today. I'll say this,

allow me this indulgence, and then we will open it up to the floor.

HBO had a wonderful mini-series a few years ago. The name of it was Chernobyl. I encourage you

all to watch it. Black and white, wonderfully done. And it was a six-part series. And the final episode

took place in the control room of the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl.

They were running a test after midnight that night. And there was one guy in charge.

Clearly, he was the one making decisions, but he had minions around him. And in order to do that

test, they needed to shut down the reactor. So they shut it down. They ran their test.

And then they decided that he needed to take the reactor. They needed to bring it back up.

So one by one, this gentleman in charge asked the minions to take out control rods. And one by one,

they took out the control rods waiting to get a reaction.

They weren't relying upon their eyes, what they saw, what they knew, their experience.

They were just relying upon and watching one certain thing. And the reaction wasn't happening.

One by one, the control rods come out until guess what? They took out

every control rod, much to the chagrin of a lot of those people, but they did it anyway.

What wound up happening? Well, guess what? They actually got the reaction they were looking for,

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