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who want to take it up a level. And all you need is a copper mug or a glass or a tankard or a tall stein or a canteen or a thermos or a flask or vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid — I like coffee — and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's the best thing that's…

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know, I returned from a week in Hawaii. I was trying to do a little writer's getaway. Now many of you enjoy vacations. How many of you enjoy vacations? In the comments, do you enjoy vacations? I don't really know what that's like exactly, but I hear people love them. Now for the past 33 years, which is really the only time I've had enough money to take a vacation, I've also been working too hard to take a vacation. So I don't know if I've ever taken one where I wasn't also working. So this was a working vacation. In fact, it was the only reason I did it. I went away for a week just to get away from the distractions of being home.

Let me show you what I came back to. So after my nice relaxing — but I worked all week, but it was still relaxing — my relaxing time in an ideal place, I come back to my house. And you should know that my home has a feature in the front lawn. There's this very old and beautiful stately oak. It's a really interesting gigantic tree. It's sort of the main feature of the house. And by main feature of the house, I mean that it's laying across the lawn right now. So the main visual feature of my home collapsed yesterday morning. I was laying across my lawn. It's just dead. So that is the primary visual appeal of my house. Just went away.

But I went into my man cave after being gone a week and missing my man cave, and I said to myself, you know, I really want to relax, which is what you do in the man cave. And so I was relaxing in there until I saw t

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hat I wasn't alone in the man cave. I had a little friend. You see him? That was behind my chair as I was trying to relax. Do you know if you're trying to relax and you see a California king snake coiling through your garage by your feet — well, maybe five feet away from my feet — it doesn't put you in a relaxed mode. Let me just say that. If I could summarize the feeling that I had at that moment…

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