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ors down in the dormitory. But anyway, for Halloween that year, we went as clones. See if you can tell which one I am. I'd like to think he was the poor man's version of me, but I'm not entirely sure. He's probably worth a billion dollars now. He was pretty smart, probably did a startup or something. Anyway, I saw a concept today in one of Owen's posts about what's called the third place. Have y…

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ing about starting a dog park that would have some shady place where you could plug in your laptop and sit at a table. And if you make it so it's sort of like picnic tables, you're going to have people who don't know each other sharing the same picnic table. And if they have a place to plug in their laptop and talk about your dog, hey, which one is your dog, it's kind of a perfect place to meet people. I've actually met good friends in the dog park. I had a few other ideas for that, but I think I might even call it the third place. I like the name so much. I'd call it a third place dog park. Yeah, and just build it around the human attraction, but also you can take your dog there. Wouldn't that be a good idea?

Anyway, couldn't make money from it, as my neighbor reminded me yesterday when I was talking about it. So where I live, our local real estate king and queen of the neighborhood, they're very, and I say that not as an insult, they're just very good at organizing things in the neighborhood. So I know I've met all of my neighbors just through the fact that they're fairly organized. We're all in a WhatsApp thing. It's actually a great situation.

Anyway, can you believe that overdoses are down? And obviously we're going to talk about Trump and the Bronx and all that later, but

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overdoses actually went down a little bit from 2023, down 4% from 2022. I don't know if this is real. It could be that they went down because the pandemic's over. The pandemic might have been a high point for drugs. Could be that all of our data is bad all the time, so it's not even real. Very possible. Maybe they just started reporting it differently. How about the fact that more people are subs

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