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with Scott Adams. And if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that you can hardly understand, all you need for that — hold on, audio is good — all you need for that is a cup or mug or glass, a tankard, a chalice, a canteen, a jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day, the thing…

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tter. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now.

Go. Well, that's pretty good. Pretty good.

All right, what do we got? We got people on Rumble and YouTube and streaming on our Locals. What a show. Happy Saturday. Really, I'm just looking at the complaints to see if I'm going to turn off the stream. Is it just complaints today? All right, let's not do that.

Well, Bill Maher is in the news because he learned something. How would you like to be trending in the news every Saturday morning because you found out something that was true that everybody else already knew? That's what it's like to be Bill Maher. So he's trending because he made a comment that Trump had been found guilty of rape, and Nancy Mace had to inform him that never happened. It just didn't happen. And Bill Maher's on live TV in front of his own audience finding out that a core assumption of all liberals never happened in the real world. Just never happened.

So here's a big crazy woman update. Turns out that in a whole bunch of countries, for young people, there's a huge difference between the young women who are increasingly liberal and the young men who are increasingly conservative. There seems to be a difference in Australia, but that might have more to do with their definition of liberal and conservative there. But apparently it's not just America. There's this huge divide.

What do you think ca

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uses the divide? Well, I think it's the news. The news is doing it. That's some of it. But I think it's also that when things are dangerous, people tend to go to gender roles. Do you think that's true? When everything's fine, you can talk about, you know, I'm not sure I'm the right gender. But if you're in danger, the men do the dangerous stuff typically, and the women do, you know, make sure the…

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