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up with the name Dilbert. He used to answer all questions about how you doing with answers about how hard he's working. And at first I didn't really realize the brilliance of it. But over time it's sort of a Trumpian hypnosis that makes you think he's the hardest working guy. And I'm here to tell you I loved my old boss, Mike Goodwin. Great guy. But he was not the hardest working guy in the office…

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dementia risk based on how much music you listen to? Do you think that's true? It might be. It might be. I won't rule this one out.

It seems to me that anything that engages your mind would probably reduce your risk of dementia. Every other time we look at anything that activates your mind. Yeah. Some disagree. I'm a famous anti-musicer because I think if you have a regular life, music is just pollution in your brain because your brain is just so full of stuff. You're not going to get dementia when you're 40 if it has anything to do with how much you have to think about, because when you're 40 you're thinking about a lot of stuff. But if you're 75 and you've got nothing going on and you'd otherwise be walking around the house listening to whatever's on the news, feels like it'd be better to listen to music. I don't know. That one might be real.

Well, according to Fox News, Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, that's a tough name. I see why she hyphenated it. Rump. The No Kings protest was largely made up of older white educated women in their 40s. And there's this expert Jonathan Alpert who hypothesizes that they're using it for therapy. That the reason it's this particular demographic, you know, we've speculated why is it this demographic? And you know, we thought, well, maybe it's the retired. They're the ones who watch legacy news. And probably all those are factors, but it might be that Jonathan Alpert has the exact right answer, which is that it's exactly the same group that are having mental problems about Trump and they believe tha

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t marching around with other people who have the same viewpoint would be a form of group therapy. And I thought to myself, you know what? It is group therapy. And you know what else? I'll bet it works. I'll bet it works. Just feeling validated by marching around with people who agree with you and tell you that you're right on point. Oh yeah, you see the world clearly. You don't have any mental pr…

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