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like Joe Biden. And you know, you look at the mouse and it'll be like all hunched over like this and walk like this. And I say to myself, that's a mouse with Alzheimer's. But now there's a Japanese drug that can cure it. So a lot of your Japanese mice, at least that's probably where it will start, will be walking upright. And their debate performances will be much better. Yeah. They also found th…

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ink they're making a rocket every other day. And the question I have is what do they need to put on those rockets? If the rockets are not actually going to the moon or Mars yet, why do we need that much capacity to put stuff in space? Is it just satellites? Do we have an unlimited demand for launching satellites? We might. I mean, that might be the whole thing.

But that is one hell of a thing that really snuck up on me. If you'd said, Scott, how many rockets does Elon Musk have? I would have said, well, I think he's got two and he keeps reusing them, but probably there's three or four in the pipeline just in case. I didn't know it was going to be hundreds and I certainly didn't know it was going to be a thousand per year. So he might have thousands of rockets launching three or four per day or something. That's where he's heading.

Well, the Babylon Bee reports that 12 women have come forward to say that they were sexually assaulted by quote whoever the Trump VP is. That's a pretty good joke. And also not too far from reality because whoever Trump picks for the vice president will be accused of sexual impropriety. Yes they will. Which by the way might be the main reason to pick whoever he picks if he could find somebody who wouldn't be accused of sexual impropriety.

And I worry about the good-looking candidates because it's so much harder to be good-looking. You know, that's one of the lucky things about my life. I always say to myself, would I be as successful in my career if I were good-looking? And I think the answer is no. Because if I were good-looking, I'd wake up every day and get everything I needed. You know, a bunch of attractive women would want to have sex with me, and I'd think, huh, I guess I don't even need to be rich. I could

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cut back on the working, give myself a nice part-time job and live like a king with my harem who thinks I'm handsome. But since I was not born handsome, I said to myself by looking in the mirror when I was about five years old, literally true story, you'd better get a really good job if you want to compete in this world because you're not going to do it on your looks. And so I did. And that, by t…

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