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much everybody who saw the video said, "What's wrong with his eyes? He looks so wasted or wired on something. That doesn't look good. That looks very bad." Well, how bad was it? I think it was around the same time he got a DUI in New York. So he gets a DUI, and he was such a dumbass that the cop who stopped him the first time simply asked him to get a ride home, and he agreed. And then he just sta…

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to. There is some chance that if Justin Timberlake had a Tesla, sexy would be bringing him back. Yes. Yes. I delivered it. Wow. Sexy would bring him back. That's right. You can try to retell that joke at home and it'll be just as flat as when I tried it. Way too much setup. But it's still, I think, a good payoff. I think it was worth your time. Sexy is bringing him back.

Speaking of drinking, I saw this message just moments ago before I got on from Dave on X. And he said, quote, "I quit drinking after 45 years because Scott Adams hypnotized me. Thank God." And Scott, well, I like to be sharing credit with God, but in this case I might have had a little bit of extra responsibility here. But you know, God, we don't want to leave God out because God's great too. But I want to tell you that the strangest thing about my weird career is that the most important thing I will have done in my life is this. So if it's true that Dave got a little boost from me and it helped him quit drinking after 45 years, my God, congratulations, Dave. Great job.

Do any of you have any conception of how hard it would be to stop drinking after 45 years? I mean, just wrap your head around that. I don't think you can. I think it's beyond imagination. We're talking about the highest level of difficulty accomplishment here. And it was done largely on the weight of one sentence: alcohol is poison. That was the hypnosis. And I hear almost every day from somebody who quit drinking forever because they heard one sentence: alcohol is poison. That's in my book "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big" but also reiterated in my book "Reframe Your Brain." So they are written with hypnosis, let's say informed by hypnosis techniques. They're not hypnosis per se, but reframes can actually reprogram your

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brain even for something as deep as an addiction. Now I'm surprised that it works that well, but so many people have said it. It's just shocking. Toyota says it's no longer going to focus on electric vehicles and instead will develop new combustion engines. Some people say that might have something to do with hydrogen. I don't know. But I can tell you this: if you've tried to buy a Toyota truck r…

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