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Back to episode — Episode 3020 CWSA 11/16/25

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Come on in. Oh, a recruiter has contacted me. Alicia wants to recruit me to work with Accenture. Am I still open to work? No, I'm not available to work for you. But thanks for asking. Let me make sure that we've got everything we want working here. Then we'll have some fun. Yep, we got a good cat picture. We got a show. We're live streaming. Oh my goodness. It's such a good day. I hope you're ha…

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vels that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human brains, all you need for that would be a copper mug or a glass or tankard or a canteen, jug or flask, vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. And it happens right now.

Extraordinary. Oh, the lengths we go through for the perfect sip, but it works every time.

So I'll give you an update. Probably I'll give the same update a few times till everybody hears it. I'm no longer personally drawing the Dilbert comic strip because both my hands are blown out now. My right hand is focal dystonia. My left hand is semi-paralyzed with whatever cancer problem I'm having at the moment. Maybe it gets better. Probably not. I don't know. We'll see.

But as of yesterday, Dilbert is being drawn by my art director. It's still written by me, so it's 100 percent w

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ritten by me, but my art director will be doing all of the drawing instead of just finishing the art. She is capable of doing it all. And now she is. And yes, I did give her a raise. I know. I know you're wondering. All right. Turns out that according to medicine, I guess that's some kind of publication, coffee consumption lowers your risk of rotator cuff injury. So if you're drinking coffee, you…

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