When you wake up breakfast is usually the first thing you are fed but now you are fed bad news about the world which is the first thing your mind is fed and gives you no motivation which breakfast does
12 step recovery jargon referring to someone new who talks about how great life is, now that they'resober. Usually meaning that the person is out of touch with reality.
The new guy seems pretty happy for a dude who has no job, no money and no family. He must be on a pink cloud.