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ld have happened. But if we want to take it up to a less absurd level today, and probably do, all you need is a copper mug or glass, 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 unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultane…

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what you call a full-body experience, and I think we just had it together. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Now I have a question for you. How do you plan a vacation in the current environment? Is anybody having that problem? You think to yourself, you know, a few weeks from now or whatever, a few months, I think I'll book myself a plane trip and I'll take myself a trip. You don't know if masks are coming back, which would ruin a trip, and you don't even know if you'll have an airplane because the flights are so bad right now. The number of cancellations means you can't be entirely sure that if you book a flight, it'll actually happen.

Now that was always the case that you couldn't be entirely sure, but I feel like it went from a 95 percent odds in your fav

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or to closer to, what, 65 percent? I'm not even sure what the odds are of missing your flight these days or at least being a day late or something like that. I mean, I don't know how you plan to do anything these days. Anyway, get your flight insurance or something, because if you plan a big vacation, you don't want to blow it. I saw the best suggestion I've seen from a tweet by David Boxenhorn,…

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