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perience up to the highest levels ever known to humanity? Yes, you would. And all you need is a coffee mug or a glass or a tankard, a chalice, a stein, a canteen, a jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Hold on, wait a minute. Don Don over on YouTube says he does not want to take it up to the highest level of awesomeness. Don Don, I need you all on board. This is the simultaneous sip. This is not t…

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little thing that happened when I was a kid. My parents had these friends Don and Ann. We always heard about them. Well, we're going to hang out with Don and Ann. They had two names that went together really well: Don and Ann. And Don was, I think he worked construction, but he had been in World War II and he had been stationed on an island in the Pacific. And his job was to load ordnance on bombers. And one of the things he once loaded on a bomber was an atomic bomb.

So he was on the island of Tinian, and he literally loaded the atomic bomb onto the plane that bombed Japan. I think it was the first one. It was the first one, I think. And I always thought, how in the world, like what are the odds that I would literally... yeah, the Enola Gay. He actually loaded the Enola Gay. And I thought, what are the odds I would actually know him personally? Like you would person

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ally know somebody that loaded the atomic bomb on the Enola Gay. It's just so weird. Well, in the news, very important news. Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen, it looks like they're living separately and maybe talking to a divorce lawyer. Similarly, Brad and Angelina are divorcing and having a bad time in the courts over it. I have a theory that goes like this. What if nobody is happily married? Wha…

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