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I'd like to speak with you if you have some time. Gather round, won't you Gather around your speaker. Just look for where the sound is coming at you right now. That's the speaker. Gather around that piece of technology. I gotta tell you something. My name's Mishki. I don't know if you've noticed this or not, but quite often on the show, relationships come up. I guess it's a dominant part of many lives. That's perhaps why. Or it may be that I just enjoy talking about it because a lot of times it's uncomfortable. And that provides a great, great opportunity for humor and fun. Out of discomfort often comes a lot of the joy in life for me. I have to make this job fun for me or I won't want to do it. There's nothing worse than getting up in the morning and not wanting to work. And yet you have this job. You gotta do it. Bills need to be paid, but you don't want to do it. Why? It's not fun. No, no, no, no. I cannot have that. We must keep this job fun. And it's sometimes fun to talk about relationships. Well, Valentine's Day, of course, is coming up shortly, and I keep reading in the news all sorts of stories with Valentine's Day themes. The latest one is, oh, boy, the 36 best Valentine's Day gifts that will make Him Fall in love all over again. Now, it doesn't say the 36 best Valentine's Day gifts. It adds, that will make him fall in love all over again. What? Wait a minute. First of all, how do you fall in love all over again? So you fall in love, and then you're in love, and you're living your life, and you're in love. You're not out of love, and then you fall in love again. That's like having a drink of water, and in the middle of the drink of water, you drink the water again. They don't say you've fallen out of love because if you've fallen out of love, there probably won't be a Valentine's Day gift anyway. No, you're madly in love. That's why there's a Valentine's Day gift. But you're getting this gift so that he will fall in love with you all over again. What will that look like? What does it look like when you're in love? So you're already feeling that, and then you fall in love while in love. It almost sounds like it might hurt. It's sort of like saying, great toys to buy for your husband to make him grow up all over again. Yeah, he gets to grow up all over again. He gets to be a boy and then grow up all over even though he already grew up. But he's going to grow up again because you're getting him this little toy. Does anybody really spend time thinking about this stuff before they throw these lines out there in the media? You said it was the happiest day of your life when your boy was born. Well, guess what? 36 best gifts to make him come out of the womb again. Give him this gift and he'll be born once more. You'll get to experience that once again. Sure, you'll scream. He's a big fella now. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. And he was breach, wasn't he? But give him this gift and watch him blast out of that birth canal once again. 36 gifts to make her go through menopause one more time. I'm getting a little carried away on this. I know, but the gifts themselves also bother me. Especially if. Especially if they're intended to make them fall in love with you all over again. How would these gifts do that? Here's what we're looking at here. A cord organizing travel case. Make sure all his tech stays organized with this rather ingenious cord organizer. Honey, this is gonna make me fall in love with you all over again. Whoa, here I go. I didn't even want to. I fell in love with you once. That was enough. But you got me the cord organizer. And if that doesn't work, here's another one they're recommending. The World Atlas of Coffee. Some book by James Hoffman. I have no idea who he is and no idea why your guy would want this book. Zero idea why anyone would want this book. Award winning barista and prolific YouTuber James Hoffman is specialty coffee's unofficial figurehead. I don't even know what that means. Specialty coffees. Unofficial figurehead. Honey, I've been wanting to fall in love with you all over again, and I think the ticket is by way of some specialty coffee. Unofficial figurehead. I don't quite know what I'm talking about, but somehow that person is gonna play a role in getting me to fall in love with you again. Then there's an electric razor here. If I had a nickel for every time a guy pulled one of those things out of a little box and all of a sudden made goo goo eyes at his gal. We really don't understand emotions outside of buying products, do we? We haven't been able. We haven't been able to detach our emotions from products. I got to thinking about this falling in love all over again, and I looked it up. Yeah, I just googled it. I researched falling in love all over again, and there were all sorts of suggestions in a women's magazine website for falling in love all over again. Listen to this brilliant idea. Try holding hands and taking a walk. Nothing gets the blood moving and creative juices flowing like taking a walk around the block. I'm gonna start yelling out the window when I see couples walk down the sidewalk past my house holding hands. I'm gonna start saying, hey, is it working? How far have you gone? Keep going. Do. Do another time around. Yeah, and the next time you come around, let me know. On a scale of 1 to 10, where we're at. I'm just doing some private research. Do your hands ever get sweaty? And do you ever pull your hand away because you want to wipe it on your pan leg? But then you feel that she might think you're falling out of love again? So you keep the hand there, but it's uncomfortable. I used to have that happen in grade school. We'd go roller skating, you know, with the girls, and we'd be going in a circle holding hands, and my hand would get sweaty, and I'd want to take it away, But I didn't want to signal that I didn't like her. I liked her just fine, but, golly, that was uncomfortable. Finally, I couldn't take it anymore, and I'd scream. That always shook her a little bit. And, well, we never did get back to holding hands. She found another guy. Any who. Let's talk nuclear war. At the dawn of the nuclear age, scientists created the Doomsday Clock. I've been talking about the Doomsday Clock for decades. I've always been fascinated by the Doomsday Clock. I don't have a watch on right now, and there's not a clock on my nightstand next to my bed. But you give me the Doomsday Clock, I'll take that everywhere I go. Scientists, as I mentioned, created the old Doomsday Clock as a symbolic representation of how close humanity is to destroying the world. Well, this past month, nearly eight decades after first setting up this Doomsday Clock, the clock was set closer to midnight than it ever has been. We are, count them, 85 seconds away from midnight again, the closest this timepiece has ever been to midnight. Midnight represents the moment at which people will have made Earth uninhabitable. That's where we're headed, and we're closer than ever. Happy days are here again Fill up your glass with beer again we'll sing a song of cheer again when scientists mess with the clock when they start moving the hands of the clock, it's usually after a few drinks at the club. They draw straws to see which guy gets to actually move the hands of the clock. This year, it was Barney. Last year, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists set the clock at 89 seconds to midnight, which was, at that point, the closest the world had ever been to the bewitching hour. That was after they had set it at 90 seconds to midnight in 2023. The reason they put it at 89 seconds last year, there was no progress being made in combating or regulating global challenges in any way, shape or form. Nuclear risks, the climate crisis, biological threats that are out there, advances in disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence. Bulletin scientists just said that combined with the spread of misinformation out there and disinformation and conspiracy theories put together just represent a major existential threat to humanity. According to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists president, humanity has not made sufficient progress on the existential risks that endanger every single one of us. And then he added, get me another scotch, will ya? I ain't doing this sober. So we're at 85 seconds to midnight. Last year, Bulletin scientists warned that countries needed to change course toward international cooperation and action on the most critical existential risks or risk global annihilation. The countries around the world said in unison in response. Go suck eggs. Rather than heed this warning, the atomic scientist president said, countries became even more aggressive, became even more adversarial, became even more nationalistic, went the opposite way. Conflicts have intensified with multiple military operations involving nuclear armed states. Folks, the last remaining treaty governing nuclear weapons StockPiles between the US and Russia just expired. It expired February 4th. For the first time in over half a century, there is officially nothing preventing a runaway nuclear arms race. Thus, we get 85 seconds to midnight. Misinformation and disinformation greatly impacts efforts to address all these threats and exacerbates every other impending disaster. We are in a mess. Or it will do until a mess comes along. The Doomsday Clock has never reached midnight. And former Bulletin president and CEO Rachel Bronson, who now serves as senior advisor to the Bulletin scientists, has said she hopes it never does get to midnight. She says when the clock strikes midnight, that means there's been some sort of nuclear exchange or catastrophic climate event that has wiped out humanity. Wait a minute, Rachel. Forgive me for interrupting here. Who would be placing the hands of the clock at midnight? This sounds like a serious flaw in this whole clock business. Who would be around to put the hands of the clock at midnight? It's headed toward midnight now, but we'll never actually get to put the hands at midnight because no one will be here to do it. What a disaster this is. That's like me setting an alarm for work and then dying in my sleep. It makes having set the clock a complete waste of time. And who's going to turn off my alarm anyway when it goes off? Who's even going to hear it. What I'm saying is all of these years waiting for the clock to get to midnight, I would at least like to see it get to midnight if in fact we arrive at midnight, which would be the point at which humanity is wiped out. But I guess I'm realizing we're not going to be able to see midnight. That's like having a New Year's Eve party and never being able to hug and kiss when the new year arrives. Can we create a kind of spring loaded deal so that when the bombs go off they also kind of nudge the hands of the clock toward midnight just to get some sort of closure on this thing? Anybody out there dealt with Bradshawn Bryant? You ever gone to MinnesotaPersonal Injury.com found out how to make contact with these attorneys and then contacted them and laid out your case? How'd they react when they heard your case? Did they say, you got a good case there, camper Danny? Did they get you the compensation to make your life whole once again? Did they balance the scales of justice? 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