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t. It's this show. And if you'd like to take it up to levels that only the weekend can survive, well, all you do is look up a mug or a glass, a tankard, chalice, decanter, canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of some kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everythi

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ng better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now.

Ah, that was pretty good. Pretty, pretty good.

So if you're not a subscriber on Locals or on X, where you can see the Dilbert Reborn comic but only there, the series is now about the boss sending his employees onto the streets to get things for him when he lives in a city that has become dangerous. So the employees are complaining about the danger coming to work, and he just sent Tina to get his lunch. I'll read it to you, but it's basically Tina. She's a little unhappy talking to the boss, and she says, "Thanks for sending me through the gauntlet of lawlessness to pick up your lunch. I got 20,000 steps just fleeing for my life." And the boss says, "You have a Fitbit." And Tina says, "I did, but now it's the property of a guy they call the Midnight Crapper."

So you would not have seen that when Dilbert was in newspapers. So let me say again that my creative revival is really fun. Every time I sit down to make the comic now, I'm enjoying it. Like I'm looking forward to it. Oh, I'd love to write some comics today. Every single day for 10 years, at least 10 years prior to being canceled, I hated my job. Now it was better than a real job because I could just sit there drawing pictures and stuff, but I didn't like it because anything you like is great until you have to do too much of it. And if you have to do a comic every single day, every day, you get tired of it after 25 years.

So believe me, getting canceled was like, I swear it was like bein

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g reborn. I call it Dilbert Reborn. It was like I was reborn because I actually love my job. So my thoughts of desperately wanting to retire, which I did prior to being canceled, I desperately wanted to retire. I just needed to find a way to do it that wasn't the way. Yeah, it just happened. But man, it's good. It's good stuff. All right. And I ask you, can AI do that? Do you think AI could have…

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