After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.