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I do. I took my watch off of my wrist and I threw it as hard as I could against the wall, which successfully turned off the alarm. So can't say I don't know how to do it. Now, it didn't seem to break, but it did turn off the alarm. So if any of you have an Apple Watch and you have that same problem where it won't turn off the alarm for whatever reason, it won't even accept your password, take it…

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All right, here's one. Did you know, according to Fox News — it's interesting that this is on Fox News — heavy drinkers cut alcohol use by nearly 30 percent after adopting one new habit. Do you know what the habit is? If you saw this story, don't cheat. But if you had not seen the story, what one habit will reliably cause heavy drinkers to drink less? The answer is smoking marijuana.

And again, it's funny that Fox News would carry that story, but apparently there's a pretty big difference. So the heavy drinkers who replaced it with marijuana drank less. Now, do you know how they could have determined that without doing a scientific study? You could have asked me because there's a shelf space issue. You only have so many hours in the day.

If you add smoking marijuana to your heavy drinking, well, I suppose some people will just spend more hours a day inebriated. But more likely, if you've decided that this will be the time you're going to be inebriated, if you use one kind of drug, it probably takes your desire away from the other drug. And they don't mix very well. If you've ever tried, do not mix. If you're already drinking and somebody offers you some marijuana at a party — totally legal if you're above a certain age and you're in the right state — but don't do it. Do not mix marijuana and alcohol. You're going to have

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a really bad night. Now, some people can do it, but I think they're unusual people. So yes, of course marijuana reduces alcohol consumption. Well, OpenAI's Sam Altman apparently has put out a memo to his staff, sort of a red alert. It's being called Code Red. Code Red. And it was a company-wide memo among the OpenAI staff telling them that they're kind of falling behind the competition, the Wall…

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