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you are back in the middle of a political firestorm. - Yeah, for walking on the beach with my wife. So I don't know how we ended up here. It never occurred to me that it was any kind of controversial thing, but that's the time we live in. - So take me back to the walk on the beach. - We were walking on the beach. We went to the beach to prepare for this week, which was the launch of my book. And to think about the book and to prepare to answer questions about it. And we were walking back towards the road and we saw in the sand, someone had arranged shells with numbers. And Patrice, my wife said, "Why would someone put an address in the sand?" And I said, "I don't know." And we stood over it and I said, "You know, I think it's some kind of political message." And she said, "86, when I was a server, "she did a lot of work in restaurants, "meant to remove an item from the menu "when you ran out of ingredients." And I said, "Well, to me, as a kid, "it always meant to leave a place, to ditch a place." I said, "That's really clever." So then she said, "You should take a picture of that." And I did and I posted it on my Instagram account and thought nothing more of it until I heard through her that people were saying it was some sort of a call for assassination, which is crazy, but I took it down. Even if I think it's crazy, I don't want to be associated with violence of any kind. - And then what happened? - I got a call from the Secret Service that night asking if I would speak to them about it, of course. I admire the Secret Service, they're pros. I spoke to them on the phone. Then they asked the next day when I got home, would I be willing to come in and meet them in person at the Washington Field Office, which again, I did, and they were pros again.

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