 Good morning, John. So a couple of months ago, I posted a video of me making Hanklerfish art for Project for Awesome donors and there were a bunch of people helping me. Right here, this person is Monica Tronell. The reason she's there is that she's running for Congress and I wanted to maybe talk to her if I could and so I emailed her and she said let's have coffee and I said let's make fish. So that was the first time I met Monica Tronell but over the last few months I've met her a few more times, mostly because I said I would like to rent out some rooms and interview you in them publicly. Time for some honesty. I don't know how to be a person with a big audience who also doesn't like the way that the world is. Obviously different people have different views on the way that the world should be but I have mine. I don't like a lot of the way things are. We've had an audience of some kind for a long time. I remember celebrating the election of Barack Obama with you, like the first one. While we were on tour I think? We've been doing this for a while. But most of what we've done over the years has been pretty nationally focused which makes a lot of sense because our audience isn't even national, it's international. So focusing local, like very few people here are going to have the opportunity to vote for Monica Tronell. Some of you though and you better because she's great. But in general I've started to feel like the relentless focus on the biggest possible scope of all conversations that always being national isn't good. I live in Montana, a state that Trump won by 16% in 2020 and by 20% in 2016. But in 2016 we also elected a Democratic governor and we have a Democratic Senator, John Tester, who is amazing. I don't think anybody would expect that. I think most people don't know that because it doesn't fit into the national narrative. We are a very red state that does a lot of pretty blue things. We can only really tell ourselves simple stories when we don't let a lot of data in. Now I understand not letting a lot of data in. It's very complicated and we want to tell simple stories so that people will believe the thing. But these simple stories are starting to rend, rend. So when Joe Biden's team emailed me and they were like, do you want to come to the White House to hang out with the president? I was like, yeah, I do. But I really only have so much time this year and I'm focusing a lot on what's going on in my community. I want to think about that. I want to be aware of that. I want to know how amazing Monica Tronell is and she is amazing. And if she doesn't win, it's going to be because of a focus on national politics. Like her opponent isn't very popular but Democrats are unpopular. She's like 50,000 miles on her minivan traveling across what is one of the largest districts in America talking to people in 16 counties and two tribal nations. And she keeps telling me every chance she gets that she just wishes that I and everybody else could see the America that she sees when she goes out there to listen to people. What those conversations are telling her is that people are a lot more complex than they get credit for. And that seems wrong to me. But her perspective is actually backed up by the research, which shows that people see themselves as being pretty 60 40 on stuff. But they see their opponents as being very 100 zero on everything. In fact, there's a lot of stuff that doesn't fit into broader narratives. And because it doesn't, we just don't ever think about it or talk about it. That true fact feels unintuitive to me, but it feels intuitive to Monica, because she's the one out there doing the work. That is why we hire other people to be our leaders, because they get to know more about this than we ever will so that we can focus on doing the other things. The problems are very big, but this country is messy and it is led in a lot of different ways. And the ballot that I get is a local ballot with local things on it. So this election with the time that I had, I decided to go local. And I feel really good about it. John, I'll see you on Tuesday. And if you can vote in this election, you're going to go local too. If you aren't sure how to vote where you are, or whether you're registered, et cetera, you can check out youtube.com slash how to vote in every state. And I will tell you everything you need to know.