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thing. But you know what really helps? You know what really, really helps? Is the simultaneous sip. And all you need is a copper mug or a glass, a tankard, chalice or stein, a canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the dopamine hit of the day. The thing that makes everything better. It practically cured the pandemic alread…

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t in one year, thanks to that sip, there will be less rioting. That's right. You can check it. Check it a year from now. See if I'm not right. A year from now on this date there will be fewer riots because of the simultaneous sip. If you don't know how cause and effect works and you think it's just a correlation, well you've got a lot of scientific learning that you need to do.

Well yes, a chalice. That's right. I said chalice, didn't I?

Let's talk about all the news. The top story I think is that the Oakland Zoo had a report that their tigers got out. So that actually happened in my neighborhood. So how would you like to live in the neighborhood where, uh, don't go outside because you know the climate change might kill you and the riots might kill you and one more thing, there's a tiger loose in your neighborhood. That's all we're saying. Just stay safe. Just watch out for Antifa. If anybody throws a brick make sure you duck and watch your back. There might be a tiger.

Turns out that was a fake report and I give great respect to whoever the prankster was who started the rumor that the animals got out of the Oakland Zoo because that's what happened. It was just a rumor. There were no animals that got away from the Oakland Zoo. But for a while, for a while that was a local story. And I don't know what's wrong with me that you know the world can literally be burning but when somebody plays a prank like the tiger got out of the zoo, I don't know, if you can't laugh at that we've already lost civilization.

All right, here's a little update. And do you remember that paper that was published that showed that masks don't work because if you cough through the mask it doesn't stop the virus? Do you remember that paper? Well it turns out that that paper that caused a lot of the experts to say that masks don't work has been retracted because it turns out it was all, it was just all, it wasn't even close to science. It was all so it's been retracted. So how do you feel about your experts? How do you feel about those experts now?

And you know I'm gonna say again I think I was the first public person to call on masks not working. Now if anybody said it before I did I haven't seen it yet because I think it was kind of risky when all the experts, all the experts, literally all the experts were saying that masks don't work and they had science. Look at our science. And by the way I just hope you can appreciate my complete lack of embarrassment that I would say publicly and loudly and often that every expert in t

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he world and all their science were wrong and of course I was right. I was right. It was obvious I was right. I didn't have to do any science. It was kind of obvious. But I would just like to claim that for the rest of my life as a thing that in some ways I'm most proud of. Now I'm not most proud of it because I realized it because I think there must have been billions of people who said the same…

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