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All right, everybody, grab your mug, your vessel, your container, your cup. You should have some kind of liquid in it, your favorite liquid, coffee. And it's time for the simultaneous sip.

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Now if you've been watching CNN lately, as I have been, you'll note that there's a mystery that they're reporting about, mostly Anderson Cooper. And here's the mystery. Anderson Cooper, after hearing the Michael Cohen tapes, is trying to figure out why the president might have lied about an extramarital affair. I was specifically lying about some payments involved. But Anderson Cooper and CNN, they seemed genuinely puzzled. Why would the president lie about an extramarital affair? I don't understand it.

Now that's not the only mystery they're working on. There are some other stories coming up, and these are other mysteries that CNN is trying to figure the answers to. So in addition to "why would somebody lie about an extramarital affair," there are other episodes coming up. Why do hungry people eat? We know that hungry people do eat, but what are they thinking? What is their motivation? Is this some kind of gaslighting thing? They're hungry and then they just eat? I know there's a mystery here. We got to figure this out.

The other one that CNN is working on is why do sleepy people take naps? We see them taking naps and we observe they're sleepy, but we don't know what they're thinking. Like, what are you thinking when you're taking that nap when you're sleepy?

And also, why, our next topic CNN's working on, is why do dead people never dance? We notice that dead people just mostly just lay there, but what are they thinking? You know, why don't they just get up and dance? Boom, boom, boom. I'm dead. I'm dead.

So these are some of the big mysteries that CNN's working on. Why does somebody lie about an extramarital affair? I gotta admit, I can't think of a reason. Can you? Can any of you think of a reason anybody would lie about an extramarital affair? I mean, what possible motivation would you have for such a thing?

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All right. So in our Yanny versus Laurel world, in our world in which there are two movies on one screen, sometimes sometimes there are three. So the two movies that everybody's watching about the Michael Cohen tapes are did the president say use cash or did the president say don't use cash? Now the way it's being reported is it's hilarious, frankly. The fact that, who's the president's lawyer? N…

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