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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams. Some people are calling it colonizing with Scott Adams. I don't think that'll stick. But if you'd like to take your experience up to levels that no colonizer has ever seen before, all you need is a cup or mug or glass, a tankard, a chalice, a canteen, a jug or flask, a vessel of any ki…

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e hit of the day, and the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now.

Good. That was good.

All right, now let's see what's going on. So I have a recommendation for you. Before you do anything recreational, make sure you've turned off all sources of news. Has anybody made the mistake of trying to relax at the same time they had the news on? Don't do that. Don't do that.

Let me give you an example. Last night I thought, you know what, I haven't used my hot tub in a long time, so I fired up my

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hot tub. It was sort of a perfect night for it in California. Got in. I thought, you know, I forgot to listen to my favorite show about the news, The Five, and so I said, oh, I've got that recorded. So I put it on my phone on the edge, and I lean back and I'm just soaking in the water. I'm like, and on comes the segment about Matthew Perry drowning in his hot tub. And then there's conversation abo…

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