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Back to episode — Episode 3048 CWSA 12/20/25

Good morning.

Well, let's see what happens this morning.

I'm using my phone to stream because all of my charging devices died at the same time. So I've got a little bit of power on my phone and I'm using the Rumble Studio on the phone, which looks to me like it has stretched my image. Is that what's happening? And also, I can't see your comments for some reason. Why would I not be able to see your comments?

How about this? How about this? Oh, there we go. Comments are working. I can't see myself, but is my image stretched? No sound, huh? Does anybody else have sound? I only see one person saying no sound. Hello. I need an answer on whether I have sound. Sound is good. All right.

There are a couple of noisy devices running that I can't get turned off because my current nurse doesn't understand anything I say. So I'm having this misery kind of situation where for another half hour, the nurse on duty is a man who hears the opposite of everything I say. I don't know why, but if I say, "Could you bring me an apple?" he will say, "Well, I would never ask for an apple." But if I did, he would say, "Uh, okay, I won't bring you an apple." And then I would say, "No, no, please bring me an apple." And then he would say, "Oh, oh, okay. No apple." No, no, listen to me. Anyway, so that's how my last eight hours have been. I can't quite get him to understand what I'm saying. No, he speaks perfect English. It's not a language problem. His English is perfect. He just hears the opposite of whatever I say. I don't know why.

So all three of my devices stopped charging at the same time. My laptop will not charge, and I've got two bricks, two batteries, and both of them, for whatever reason, just don't charge. So I've got a little bit of juice left in my phone. I thought I'd do a short one this morning.

He's a man. Well, if somebody else comes in, I'll ask him to turn off my devices, but that is apparently not an option in my current situation. So I don't know if Owen Gregorian is going to do a Spaces after the show or at some point today, but I think so. After the show, go to Owen Gregorian's feed on X and by then he will either have the indicator up or not. But I think he will do a Spaces and then you can have some more fun this morning.

In theory, I'll be going home today, but I don't know.

All right, you've got a little company.

Hello. Good morning. Good morning. I'm live streaming. I just want to MTV. Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead. I'll just be talking. Okay. Okay.

My catheter is being emptied, but you don't have to see that because that's in the other direction. You know, I had some coughing last night. I think I had an allergy, but it's all good this morning. So I'm good to go. I believe I'm good to go.

All right. Want to check in on some stories?

Well, it turns out that yesterday I met the first person at the hospital who has ever heard of Dilbert. Strangely enough, except the button. Well, I tried all the outlets. Well, somebody tried them for me. All the outlets and all of the charge devices and all the charging cables. And they all appear to be dead at the same time. So my laptop brick is done now. Don't know why.

Hey, we had a couple of earthquakes last night. Robin, where's your rider or died? All receptacles are dedicated. Well, they weren't for the last five days. So all the devices worked perfectly. They all charged until yesterday. And today none of the receptacles. They all work because they're all powering one thing or another.

Are you really asking me my opinion of my work versus Garfield? All you need is a catheter cup or another stent. Yeah, might have been a power surge that fried everything possibly. Wow. 2004 delivery.

All right. Anybody want to do the simultaneous sip? No, no. All the power's on. The outlets actually have lights on them. The earthquake happened after the prob

Context —

lem with the power. I don't know. So by coincidence, I have a good friend who is in the same hospital waiting for his wife to give birth. So he might bring me a charging brick after the show, because it's a long day if you don't have a phone and you're sitting in a hospital bed. But if you do, you're perfectly entertained. All right. Let's see if I can find the simultaneous sip because I certain…

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