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t, let's start out with this. Did you all see the meme which put Joe Biden's face on Dylan Mulvaney? Well, you're gonna see it now. An ice cold Michelob Ultra. So good. Happy Friday. All right everyone, so it's Friday night. I'm getting ready to go out. I'm feeling good before I go out. I've got a free game and the only way I pre-game is with an ice cold Michelob Ultra. So there are some things t…

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the animals have decided to turn on the humans and they're just going to kill us after all. And it turns out that the animals have a navy. It's all orcas. And the orcas are training. I don't know if NATO is training them or what, but somebody's training these orcas to attack naval vessels. Keep an eye on that. Keep an eye on that.

Did you see a video not too long ago where Joe Rogan was showing a video of a rat that learned to use tools? It went and got a stick to trip the rat trap so it could get the cheese without getting hurt, because it knew what the rat trap was and it knew that if it used a tool it could spring it. It actually used a tool, a stick. And now we see these whales learning to attack boats. Put it all together, people. Put it all together. It's not just AI that's getting smarter. So the creatures, the creatures are starting to gang up. See, it's sort of a total head fake. We're all looking at the robots and the AI. It's like, oh look over there, it's the robots. We're afraid of the robots and the AI. Meanwhile the orcas and the rats apparently have conspired to take over everything with their tool making and such. All right, we'll keep an eye on that.

Here's a story I told in the man cave last night, but you're gonna have to hear it because it's important. It's about the simulation. Have you ever had this situation where you worried yourself into the exact problem that you were trying to prevent? Does anybody have that? That's like a real thing, right? There's something that's never happened to you before, and then because you're thinking of it you just think yourself into the problem.

Well yesterday I went to take a ride in my e-bike and uncharacteristically I thought to myself, you know what, I'd hate to fall off my e-bike because I'm at that age now where if you get a serious sporting injury, you know, maybe you don't come back. Yeah, it's kind of the end of your sporting life if you have a bad one. And so I thought to myself about falling off my e-bike. And you know it's not like I've never thought of it. It's just I've never dwelled on it before. So the first time I dwell on it, I take my bike out and I'm going on this path that's too small for automobiles and it looks like the path is going to come to an end and I need to turn around. But the path had narrowed to the point where turning around without getting off your bike was going to be kind of a challenge. And there was gravel on each side of the narrow path. And I said to myself, I calculated, all right, to do a very low speed turn, you know, you can't do it if it's too narrow, you'll fall off. And I thought I better get off my bike and just walk it around. And then I thought to myself, no, no, damn it, I'm no bicycle. I'm not afraid of my bike. I'm not going to talk myself into being afraid of a bicycle. Damn it, I'm gonna just make this turn.

So as I was flying through the air on my way to the hard pavement below — because as you see the turn didn't work out — it was one of those situations where I really should have listened to that little voice in my head that said, well that looks really dangerous, you're not going to make it. So as I was departing from the bicycle itself and more airborne than actually bike-borne, time stood still. Have you ever had tha

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t experience where you know something bad is going to happen and it's only going to be a quarter of a second but that quarter of a second seems to just stop in time in your memory? So as I'm flying through the air I have to do triage: which part of my body I want to sacrifice? I'm thinking arm, no, don't want a broken arm. Leg, knee, no, no, bad news. Head, got a helmet but still you don't want t…

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