Ryan Holiday

And so Lincoln does this and they wake up in the morning and the friend anticipating the prank has switched their hats.

And so he shits in his own hat.

And again, you think of him as this black and white photograph.

Right.

The man whose face is wrinkled and worn by this horrible civil war, which it was in the loss of his children and the pain and the heartbreak.

And he's also a guy with a sense of humor.

Right.

He's a human being.

And he learns, by the way, that humor is how you deal with what must have been a dark,

disturbing look into humanity as he traveled to these towns and he had to represent slaves and slave owners and wife beaters and people who stole the savings of little old ladies and he was a funny dude and I love that story

I tell this story.

It's like Christmas Day or New Year's Day in the depths of the Civil War.

And Lincoln calls his cabinet in for like this emergency meeting.

They have to discuss something.

And they come in and he's reading this book and he's laughing.

And they're like, what are you doing?

He's like, let me read you this.

And he sits down and he reads them.

There's this humorist named Artemis Ward.

And he reads him a chapter from this thing, which he finds hilarious.