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be great. But if you'd like to take it up a level, and I know you do because why would you settle for less? Don't settle for less. You can have it all. All you need is a copper mug or glass, a tankard, a chalice, just a canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day. The thing that…

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s everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it's going to happen now. Go.

Well, if you made it here on time you are in for a treat because today is the best, funniest, most entertaining news of all time. That's a promise. Let us get right to it.

Top of the news. You've heard of the Pegasus spy software that gets on your phone and gets into all your stuff and it's so advanced that only governments have access to it. But we found out that there was a flaw, or at least a hole, in the Apple phone operating system that this Pegasus software was taking advantage of. And apparently there are names of people who are allegedly targeted by the software, including a lot of journalists and activists. That's right. Journalists and activists are being targeted by foreign nations to be spied upon and everything on their phone is accessible to them.

Now have I told you before that one of the weird things about my life is that you read the news but I'm often in it. McDougals, I see your comment. Yeah, I mean you watch the news but I watch the news and I'm in it.

So I read this news about this Pegasus spy program that's targeting activists and reporters and journalists. Am I on that list? And if I'm not, why not? If I were a foreign country the first person I would want to look into was me because I seem to be influencing things. Now I might not be. It could be an illusion. It could be an illusion. It could be just that everything I try to influence seems to go my way. Maybe not everything, of course. Nobody gets everything.

But I immediately dropped everything and updated my phone because I guess there's a fix for it. But I'll tell you I've never updated my software so fast. The moment I saw that, like okay, drop everything, drop everything. Because the odds that somehow I've been targeted just as a person who talks in the media ab

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out politics and maybe has some influence, that's some scary. Somebody says Jesse Watters mentioned me last night on Gutfeld. I have that recorded and I will watch that today. Well here's some good news. Are you ready for the good good news? Really good news. Great news. I'm going to give you the best news today that you've ever heard. You ready? Now some of you don't think it was a problem, cl…

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