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Chapter 1: What is the dopamine of the day?
A cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or sign, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better, especially on a Saturday. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen right now. Thank you, Paul. Go. Go.
That should hold you. That should get you through the rest of the show. Well, after the show, remember it's Saturday, so Owen Gregorian will be hosting a Spaces event. Spaces is the audio-only thing that's on X, so you have to be on X to get that. But look for Owen Gregorian, and you'll see the link for that.
Now, yesterday I was binge-watching that show Severance, and I was thinking, I feel so good about this show, I feel like I'm going to post on X about it, because I've mentioned it before. And then I noticed that Joe Rogan just posted it on X. He said, Severance is a fantastic show, says Joe Rogan. Completely original and totally unpredictable. Amazing writing, directing, and acting.
Chapter 2: What are the highlights of the show Severance?
Just a totally unique show. He just finished season one. He's going to two. That's exactly where I am. I think I have maybe an episode left. But just finishing season one. Totally addicted. Then Jon Stewart. He also posted on the same topic. The Severance was amazing. He dropped an F-bomb to say how much he liked it. Now, here's why it took me so long to watch it. It's the title.
When I see a show that looks like people in an office and the title of the show is Severance, here's what I assume. Okay, I get it. It's another one of those remakes where there's some severance, meaning people got fired. So the people who got fired and got the severance, the severance payment, they decided to, what, get back at their evil boss and tie him to a chair and ha, ha, ha?
So I didn't want to watch that. But then I found out that Severance has nothing to do with losing your job. And that it's more of a sci-fi and sort of an ongoing mystery than it is like anything else. So here's what I like about it. And I will say that since entertainment is subjective, no more than half of you are going to like it as much as I do.
Half of you are going to say, well, I don't get it. And half of you are going to say, why have I missed this for so long? But here's what Ben Stiller has done that is actually very impressive. So Ben Stiller is the, I guess he's director, producer, whatever he is, but he seems to be in charge. And we know Ben Stiller being a little bit more woke than you want to be.
So one thing you'd kind of assume about the show is it's going to be really woke. Turns out, it's very diverse, but you don't even really notice. The diversity is the natural kind, where there's one character who's kind of a key character, a black character, and you watch the black character do his thing, and you say to yourself, he's kind of perfect. That's good casting right there.
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Chapter 3: Why is Ben Stiller praised for his show Severance?
And then you watch the other characters, and you realize they are very diverse. But they still allowed the boring straight white guy to be the lead character. And I thought, when was the last time I've seen that? So it's diverse without the wokeness. And it's kind of refreshing. Nothing's in your face. You never notice. You don't see any actors who look like they don't belong there.
They're all well chosen. They're all great. And not once... Does a 90-pound woman use her kung fu to beat up a 200-pound man? That drives me crazy. But no, not once is there a car chase scene. No car chase scenes. Not once is there anybody tied to a chair to be tortured. I don't think. I don't think I saw that. So when Joe Rogan says it's...
fantastic and inventive it holds my interest like nothing ever has it's really special so uh here's what i'd like to now if it sounds like i'm spending way too much time on this and you're saying to yourself i don't even have apple tv there's a bigger point here's the bigger point ben stiller has created a masterpiece but it's more than that because he's also proven you could violate
pretty much all of the rules of how you're supposed to make a crappy piece of product in 2025. He violates all the rules, but does them in a genius way. So maybe, maybe there's hope. There might be hope for scripted television. You know, if you can do it this well. Very impressive. Well, yesterday, a lot of us were wondering what happened to X user, who is quite well known, Brian Ramelli.
And Brian has got a lot of attention, especially in the last year or two, because he posts a lot about AI. And he knows a lot about it, and he's deep into it. And his account became even more valuable. It's always been valuable. But he got kicked off, and he didn't know why, and we didn't know why. But there was sort of an outcry from the people on X saying, hey, what's up with this?
Now I'm always hesitant because people ask me this all the time. Can you get involved in getting my account on canceled? First of all, I don't have any poll. I have no poll whatsoever on X, nothing. Don't know anybody don't have any special back, nowhere, nothing. But when somebody gets canceled on X, the first thing I asked myself is, okay, as far as I know, this is a totally good person, but.
Do I know everything about this person? So I'm always suspicious. What did they do? What is it I don't know about? So if I don't know why they got canceled, it's really hard for me to weigh in because I might be accidentally backing something terrible. But it looked like Elon Musk may have been involved in getting this one reinstituted. But Musk said that it was...
because of a music copyright violation. Now, here's something you need to know. A music copyright violation, I think, I'll take a fact check on this, but I think this is true, is automatically removed simply because the music people complained. Now, I don't know who specifically has to complain. It might be some entity within the music business that's the only official one, but it might be also
anybody complaining about their own band or their own music. But my understanding is that the simple existence of a complaint that's backed by, you know, there actually was a copyrighted song involved. There's no X isn't even involved. X has to do it automatically. I believe, I believe that the law says X doesn't even get a choice. Yeah.
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Chapter 4: What happened with Brian Ramelli's account on X?
My God, you've got to be canceled. Now, of course, it took about like a minute and a half for Representative Garcia to come back and say, it was just an analogy. There's no smart person who heard me say, it's a bar fight, so you have to bring weapons. Nobody thought that meant I meant bring weapons to the political contest. Now, but some people did, or they pretend they do.
So with Republicans, I can never tell. Because sometimes maybe they believe the analogy. Maybe they believe he was actually suggesting weapons. Let me say as clearly as possible. He wasn't suggesting bringing real weapons into the political realm. It was an analogy. What happens when you use an analogy? People will pick apart the analogy instead of whatever point you were trying to make.
So that's what happened to him. So don't use analogies like that. But I would say he used the analogy correctly. He even used it correctly, which was he was trying to introduce a point. And the point was, we're in a fight with no weapons. If you were in a bar fight, you'd want to have a weapon. So in any other fight, you might want to have a weapon too.
The weapon might be better ideas, better policies, better podcasts, something like that. So Representative Robert Garcia, Democrat from California, I back you 100%. I'm not entirely sure if the Republicans going after him really believe what they're doing, or it's just sort of convenient, kind of a convenient attack line. But no, he didn't do anything wrong. Here's some good news.
The Epoch Times is reporting. Apparently, CEO confidence in the economy is at a real high. So it's looking really good. Now we've seen some other indicators that the economy could have some trouble when the stock market took a dump on Friday. So it's not all positive, but here's what I like about it. The CEOs are extra important when it comes to their optimism.
If the CEOs are optimistic, then they increase their investment budget, their capital expense, and then things go well. So you want your CEOs to be optimistic because anything but that destroys your economy. So when they're at some kind of high in terms of optimism, and they are pretty high, that is a really good, really good sign for the future.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk's private security, they must be pretty good. because they've been deputized by the U.S. Marshal Service, meaning that they'll now have certain rights and protections of federal law enforcement, CNN's reporting. Now, it makes me wonder what special rights they're gaining. The one that seems obvious would be the right to arrest somebody.
If you're a private security, can you detain and arrest somebody? I don't know. So is that one of the rights? I don't know exactly what rights they get, but I like anything that makes Elon Musk safer. So if this in any way makes him safer, yes. Yes, please. Let's do that. So it looks like it makes sense. It passes the sniff test. Well, Trump, again, is reiterating that he's in favor of the
Death penalty for drug dealers. He makes a good point that a big drug dealer could kill 500 people, you know, just the number of overdoses over time. You know, it could add up to a lot of people. So yes, if there's somebody who is knowingly, knowingly, this is the important part, knowingly selling a drug that is likely to kill 500 people at the scale they're selling the drug. Yeah. Yeah.
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Chapter 5: What are Trump's views on the death penalty for drug dealers?
There's no time left. Could you get a watch from Rand Paul, please? Could somebody talk to Rand Paul and get a fucking watch? Because there is time if you want to do it right.
Now, I know it's hard, but if you can't do it, just fucking give up and tell us, oh, sorry, the only thing you wanted us to do we're not going to do, and we're not able to do it, and we won't do it later, and we won't do it at the last minute. There's just no way we can do it. Well, give up, and then maybe we'll try something else.
Maybe the White House can come up with a budget, and you just have to vote on it. But don't give us another fucking bank-busting idea Now, if I'm wrong, meaning that let's say the Doge effort is on top of the budget, so that as we start realizing the cuts, because it takes a while to actually realize any of the cuts, that the plan is to reduce the budget by exactly the amount of the Doge findings.
If that's the plan, could you let us know Could you include that in the budget wording so that we know, well, we're going to pass one with a $2 trillion deficit per year, per year. But we're really hoping that by the end of whatever, we'll have most of that $2 trillion cut down. And so in the end, we won't be spending it all. Or tell us this. You know it's too late to do it for the next 12 months.
All the doge cuts that we find, even if we cut it right away, the best we're going to be able to do is kind of look at a 2026 as the year that the doge cuts really kick in and then we can really reduce the budget. To which I would say, all right, all right. Everybody wants it sooner, but if anything's good, it's worth waiting for.
But I'm reading two major stories in our press and even the media are Even the media is ignoring the deficit when they talk about the budget. How in the world is this even happening? Anyway, so as you know, Zelensky and Trump had some words for each other. And here's what Trump says about Zelensky. He said it on Fox News Radio.
He said, quote, I've been watching for years and I've been watching him, meaning Zelensky, negotiate with no cards, Trump said of Zelensky. He has no cards and he gets sick of it. Yeah, so I don't think he's very important to be at meetings, Trump says of Zelensky, to be honest with you. And then he said he makes it very hard to make deals.
Now, Trump can dismiss the value of people better than anybody I've ever seen, whether you like it or not. But what he says, Zelensky, Zelensky is trying to negotiate with no cards and he makes it very hard to make deals. It just like it sounds like he's talking about trying to do a Zoom call and your kids keep coming in and bothering you during the middle of Zoom calls.
Like I'm trying to do a Zoom call here. I got to lock the children out. They just keep wandering in the room. It makes it very hard to do a serious Zoom call. Anyway, So apparently Trump is also angry, according to Rubio and Vance, they both say, that this is being reported in the National Pulse, Jack Montgomery.
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