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go to this simultaneous sip. But all you need is a covered burger, Gossip Technical, Chelsea Steiner, Canteen Dragon, Flash Vessel, and the guy. Fill it with your favorite liquid. Let's hurry before the technology dies again. Oh, we were waiting for the punch line on YouTube. You missed the punch line. Let's see if it makes it go offline again. All right, it goes something like this. You may not
← Previous segment →think your... It goes like this. You might think that I'm predicting we're heading toward a golden age where everything's better, but I'm not predicting it. I'm causing it. And what I'm doing specifically is I'm trying to nudge the public onto, wait for it, listen carefully, YouTube don't go offline, don't go offline, don't... Wait, wait for the punch line. I'm going to nudge you onto the slippery slope. You're welcome. The slippery slope. Because when you take it... Oh, it wasn't that bad. Shut up, shut up. Talk about a joke that wasn't worth waiting for. Wow.
Well, it's getting harder to brag. I know this is not a problem for a lot of you, but for people like me, if you are a narcissist, it's getting hard. Let me give you an example.
Early in my career I did a Dilbert comic in which I included some reference to Garfield, the other com
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ic. Now there's a standard within the cartoonist world that if you mention somebody else's comic in your comic, there's sort of a custom that happens after that. And the custom is that the person who was mentioned will often contact you and say, can I have the original? Because cartoonists will collect originals from other cartoonists. So when I mentioned Garfield, and this is when I was basicall…
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