 So there's a great show on Netflix on Formula One racing. There are three seasons. It's great seasons 2018, 2019, 2020 Formula One racing and their spectacular wipeouts and crashes in the show. Just amazing. There's one crash in season three where the guy's car is cut in half and then the flames just just billowing up these flames and and 30 seconds goes by a minute goes by like two minutes goes by before rescue team seems to be on the track and then trying to douse the flames and you think there's no way this guy can survive the flames for two and a half minutes three minutes. It's just absolutely gripping. Well, I had a not so gripping but very intense wipeout on the show last night about 90 minutes into the show. I wanted to talk about a book review in the New York review of books by Frederick Cruz, a professor of English at Cal Berkeley. And I just I just hit the wall because the language sentences, the construction of sentences very different in formal writing or in writing in general compared to the way we speak. And so I had not done enough preparation. So I'd read the article and I'd chosen highlights of it for my blog. But I didn't choose highlights for the show. So I just thought I could wing it. And the show was going along great for 90 minutes. And then I just hit the wall trying to articulate and turn this thought for academic book review in the New York review of books into something that I could just talk about on the show. And I was struggling. And everyone was going, Luke's lost it again. And I just hit the wall. I was struggling to to turn this this book review into a segment on the show. And the problem was that I hadn't done enough preparation. I hadn't just pulled out the key points of the book review so that I could talk about it spontaneously. Instead, I was I was reading things that I wasn't fully connected with, and that were meaningless to people. And I just lost the audience. I went from from 40 live viewers to 18 live viewers in about five minutes. And it's like, Oh, man, not again, I hadn't done adequate preparation. I hadn't pulled out the key points that I could then talk about spontaneously. And man, this has happened to me like 300 times before when am I ever going to learn? I've been taking this course from radio.co. They've got an excellent YouTube channel on how to be a better radio presenter. They're in the United Kingdom. So in Australia, and the United Kingdom, they talk about radio presenters more than radio hosts. And the last segment that I'd listened to was on voice quality. And the biggest problem for people on the radio is a monitor and voice quality. You don't want to have that. And the challenge of reading anything on the air because it tends to start deadening the spontaneity and the excitement. And I realized what I was doing was just I was doing all the wrong things according to this radio presenter course. And I knew what the problem was. I simply had not done the prep, had not taken the time to prepare this segment of the show. And so after the show last night, I was like, I felt annoyed because I just slammed into that wall like a Formula One driver. And so I ate dinner and then I got back on the horse and I started rewatching this radio.co course and how to be a better radio presenter. And I did these exercises that I needed to do. And so normally after I do my show, I'm wiped out. I just kick back. I may read a book or watch a movie or a TV show. But I was driven to do about 90 minutes of work. I did some journaling. I did all the things that I needed to do. Because when I experienced that slamming into the wall on my own show and that feeling of losing the audience, it's not a good feeling. And knowing that I'm repeating a problem that I've committed about 300 times before, it's like, OK, 40, you got to do the prep. You got to do the work. And that way you won't embarrass yourself when you go do the show. And so the humiliation of failure, it was like an analogy as talking about it with a friend of a little piece of sand in a clam, whatever it turns it can turn into a pole. So I'm going to use that irritation to spur me to do more prep work for my show. I'm loving Luke Ford's latest turn against a former obsession. One day Tucker is playing every night to close the shed. The next day is a pariah. Well, yeah, I have ambivalent feelings about Tucker. Overall, the much more positive feelings about Tucker than the negative. So Tucker is a unique voice. He's the most important commentator around. At the same time, I want to acknowledge that there are some legitimate criticisms of him. So sometimes, yeah, I'll just see the positive and what a guy is doing. And then I'll see the negative. And so I'm very changeable person. So many people like Kevin Michael Grace is very consistent. I think J.F. Garopi very consistent. I'm not very consistent. I'm more personality who sees things from different angles. But I may not see the other side for months or years. And then suddenly I see the other side. And so I turn. Tucker has weaknesses. I don't like when he does Hennedys style tactic. Yeah, I don't like it when he's unnecessarily mean. I don't like it when he puts on bad information. Like when he had Alex Berenson on about 20 times and some other loony guests. And I think he's way too populist. He goes for the easy applause. He's I think it's very easy to get sucked into what your audience likes and to keep feeding them what they like. Even when you realize that it's not true. You're giving them a distorted view of reality so you can keep them enraged. So yeah, I don't like when he misrepresents his opponent's words as opponents are dumb enough. Yeah, no need to misrepresent them. Yeah, that's taking the easy way out is to misrepresent what your opponents are saying. So Tucker is the best of any pundit around today of which I'm aware on TV. And I think overall he does does good work. But there are weaknesses. And I may not see the weaknesses or just may not feel like mentioning the weaknesses, particularly in a run up to an election, one tends to get much more partisan. Now the elections in