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If you get fired for putting Splenda in Greg's coffee, would you be the first person fired for putting Splenda in someone's coffee? (I just want that comment to go into the CCP database so it spends a nanosecond having to sort through it on the way to finding the important stuff.)

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Yes, I read all the way through the 3rd footnote. And I will happily read whatever you write!

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I guess I had missed it somewhere along the way since the movie came out in 2021... but that fight scene was amazing.

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60 isn't that old. It's a lot like being a kid and having random "growing pains", only they are more "shrinking pains" and that's the only way 60 is like 10. I've watched friend after friend hit a brick wall in their seventies and turn into old people who shuffle around and have multiple doctor visits every week. But 60, you can still physically turn it on and get it done when you need to.

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To be honest I love to hear your non political stuff as I am a semi-retired comic book nerd. You have a healthy disdain for politics and politicians in general and believe its quite weird to spend so much time on that crap. We used to call that "perspective"

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As long as Greg isn't a Stevia guy.

We know about people who like Stevia...

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I feel attacked

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Me too!

Hey, Duck on a Bike, what choo got against Stevia??

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It's a reference to Breaking Bad. In the last season, Lydia (who was a vey evil character, if you really analyze her) was very particular of her use of Stevia. Walter leveraged this to poison her.

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Thanks for the clarification. My kids keep telling me that I HAVE to watch 'Breaking Bad' - that it's so great.

Hard for me to get past the first episode where he decides to make drugs. I know, I know, it's only a show - and it's SO GREAT! Perhaps, one day...

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Well, Walter deciding to make the Blue Meth is a purely transactional move; he wants to provide for his family before he crosses the rainbow bridge. Can he help it that he's a chemistry genius?

His descent from dedicated family man into evil is just so well done. He leaves a trail of carnage in his wake, and keeps excusing it and rationalizing this ever increasing level of hate, spite and evil genius.

Anyways, where was I ... yes, it's a good show.

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Your synopsis is much more compelling than mine. I'll give it a try. Thanks.

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I've been using monkfruit

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Ok, now I'm gonna have to go and look up 'monk fruit'. So I'm not 'liking' your answer until I know what it is.

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It’s a low-cal sweetener. It’s natural so it’s supposedly healthier than the chemical ones. Coconut sugar is better, but I’m cutting carbs for my New Year’s resolution.

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Good for you.

There is a bread that is low carb - Sola bread - it's in the freezer section - if your store carries it. It is 4 net carbs for 2 slices.

I can also recommend carbmanager.com to track your daily carbs, fats & proteins - if interested.

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I looked in the bread aisle for that Sola stuff, but not the freezer section. Thank you!

And I’ve been using Foodtility. Might try that one...

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Thanks.

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I have an incidental question - on 'Gutfeld' how often do you have a to be in NYC?

I'm assuming that you are physically present there as you were able to add Splenda to Greg's coffee. Or have you mastered bi-location?

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I'm back having looked up 'monk fruit'.

To each his own.

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Splenda always taste like if you shrink miners down to hollow out real sugar, that's what you'd be left with... an empty simulacrum of what could have been sugar at one point. It's weird. Stevia is more palatable sugar substitute.

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Ha. I use splenda and think Stevia tastes weird, but I am cutting back on well, everything. My diet is called, "eat what you want and live - but not so much of it you have to do that purposeful hard exercise." Which is a lot to emblazon on a book, so I am not sure it'll hit the best seller list.

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First thing, we need a guy on EVERY bus like the guy on 4K HDR.

Second, I'll give 'Lucky Hank' a tumble.

Third, I'm ok w intermittent newsletters as long as you bring back such riveting behind-the-scenes tales as the 'Too Much Splenda in Greg's Coffee' is. That's gold, jt! Gold!

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Welcome back. Based on this review I'm suggesting the show to my wife. I can't really enjoy TV much anymore because even with very good hearing aids the shows are hard for me to follow. That really takes the fun out of comedy, believe me.

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Wait... what? Gene Shalit?

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Say the headline in his voice

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Ha! My husband went to Wabash.

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Tell him to turn the damn music down!

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Thank you, thank you for telling us about “Lodge49.” It is charming and hilarious.

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