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glass, a tankard, chalice, stein, a can, a jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. I'm slurring my voice, am I not? Yeah, there's definitely something wrong with my mouth. But anyway, join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the simult

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aneous sip that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go.

All right. Well, apparently in Austin there are already driverless Teslas. So if you walk around in Austin, you're going to see these driverless cars go by. Not only are there driverless cars now, which is really good if you don't like people, but MIT has developed a ping-pong-playing robot which is better than all the other ping-pong-playing robots, I guess, because we've done this before.

But I'm trying to think of a future life where I get an Uber

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but there's no Uber driver, so I don't have to worry about a person. And then I take it to my local ping-pong emporium and I play with the robot, and then I take my self-driving auto cab home. I can avoid people completely. That's a good world. As you know, the *New York Times* did a big piece alleging that Elon Musk is taking all kinds of drugs. They say he was on ketamine and ecstasy and mushro…

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