 Oh, good. I'm 840 here. So I often lapse into this really pompous way of talking not thrilled about this, but It's like a distancing device. I try to put like distance between myself and whoever I'm talking to Like I'm up here on Mount Sinai talking down to the peons It's I think it's an example of getting out of touch with reality because I have not lived a life that Entitles me to become pompous in my public pronouncements remember it was this girl I was seeing something like 1992 and I was asking her to Tell me like what similarity she saw between my father and I and she said well, he's not as pompous Ouch ouch. So I think I inherited Some of my father's preaching characteristics, but I don't have his level of accomplishment So I don't have his two PhDs and all these other accomplishments and I also don't have his level of righteousness and rectitude and Being you know an upstanding husband and father and preacher and teacher and professor and all that so Certain certain forms of rhetoric. They can work for someone who's got you know a long Lengthy list of accomplishments, but for a bloke whose main accomplishment in life is blogging since July of 1997 I don't get to be pompous So it's a lot easier for me to say hey, this is what's wrong with you or this is what's wrong with people rather than It's much more Exposing it's much more intimate to say okay. This is where I went wrong. This is where I screwed up For example being broke like being broke if you're above average in intelligence They usually indicates this you know, there's something wrong with you You're not stepping up to adult levels of responsibility because if you're broke other people are gonna have to pick up the slack so It's a useful attack vector that the red bar uses on people and if you're gonna make a personal attack All right Attacking someone for being broke is you know makes as much sense probably more sense than most other forms of personal attack Right makes more sense than attacking someone for the sound of their voice or for their looks over which they they probably have to Know ability to change so I'm not a big fan of making personal attacks. I don't think I make many personal attacks, but When I'm the recipient of personal attacks This is just someone saying what dozens of people are thinking So I might as well like learn from it instead of like getting all up in arms like oh you made a personal attack bro Yeah, I think generally speaking a credit card a credit score is probably The single best objective number for how reliable An upstanding somebody is Like if you're broke there's something something wrong if you've got above average intelligence means you haven't stepped up to adult level responsibility You haven't made prudent plans. You don't get along with other people You haven't done the things that you need to do to Pay your way in life and to meet your responsibilities So red bar is absolutely vicious, but uh seemed very much rooted in reality So it would not be any fun to be a recipient of his criticisms but but they usually They're usually pretty accurate. They they're usually pretty rooted in reality And so it may not be any fun to hear this But he's simply saying what hundreds of people are probably thinking about you As this one writer I knew Greg Kreitzer who's not a big fan of mine He found me, you know incredibly inappropriate and rude But his life was profoundly changed one day when he was getting out of his car And some guy driving by said, you know, you ought to out get out of the way fat. So And that led Greg Kreitzer to embark on a dramatic weight loss He lost something like 100 pounds and wrote a well-received book about fat