Andy Stumpf

They want to – and I had a bunch of people reach out to me like, I'm trying to get justice for Charlie.

I get it.

You're sleuthing through the internet and getting emotionally attached to things that are highly conspiratorial in nature.

And I'll be the first person to admit that conspiracies absolutely exist.

That doesn't mean that all conspiracy theories are true, but people do conspire to do things.

But oftentimes the simplest solution is probably gonna be the most likely one.

And I've come to the realization that people get emotionally attached to it because they don't like feeling helpless.

And I don't like feeling helpless either.

But I don't know if any of the people that reached out to me saying that they were looking for justice for Charlie by trying to spread at the top of their lungs information that was clearly not accurate, might have been emotionally compelling, but not accurate.

I just wonder how it has served people.

If you were to look back and maybe the Charlie Kirk incident isn't for the listener out there, that doesn't speak to you.

You've paid almost no attention to that.

Cool.

Is there anything that you did get hooked by in 2025?

And I'm asking myself that question as well, too, because I try not to.

I try to be balanced in the amount of time that I spend because I look at the amount of time that I spend on things like that.

And at the end of the year, I ask myself, did it serve me well?

Do I wish I could get that time back?

Do I wish I could have done something different with that time?

More productive, more meaningful, more purposeful, any of those things.