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Hello dear listener, just a quick heads up.

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There's a little bit of audio issues with this episode,

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kind of, sort of, it doesn't really impact your ability

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to understand what I'm saying, but it does happen.

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And I just wanted to acknowledge that up front.

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Thanks for bearing with me.

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I did my best to cover it up.

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Okay, bye, but also, hi, because here's the episode.

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All right, here it is.

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Hello.

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The radiation from the sun illuminates a world

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in which stuff has happened.

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So what's up?

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Okay, but dogs though, specifically golden retrievers.

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It's the 155th anniversary of the golden retriever,

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the breed itself.

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They were made in Scotland, apparently.

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I didn't know that.

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And so there's like a massive gathering

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of like a bunch of goldens in Scotland right now,

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like the hundreds of them,

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just sort of, lolling around in a field, being goobers.

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I have linked a video in the newsletter for today.

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I highly encourage you to watch it.

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Apparently they were bred to be hunting dogs

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that were specifically fit to be

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in the Scottish Islands climate.

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And for some reason, that means they have to have

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a very good, floopy tail.

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Okay, dear viewer, hold on to that thought.

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Just keep the idea of a bunch of golden retrievers

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rolling around in a field in your head

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for the rest of this episode,

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because we have to talk about Texas.

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Texas has absolutely no chill.

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Right now, quite literally.

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But I'm not here to talk about heat waves.

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I'm here to talk about fascists.

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Texas is one of those states that's like really trying

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to beat the forefront of the fascists.

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And they've been really hard

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with this anti-abortion bullshit.

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So despite the vast majority of Americans

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being against a total abortion ban,

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Texas is still pushing to try to do that.

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And now just stories are racking up of women

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having to carry unviable pregnancies to term,

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only to be traumatized or potentially killed by them.

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Doctors don't know if they can perform a surgery or not,

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because they might get sued or sent to jail

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or fined a hundred plus thousand dollars for doing medicine.

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And so now women and rights groups and doctors

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are coming together and demanding from Texas,

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fix your shit.

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There's a massive lack of clarity around the laws

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that they currently have on the books there,

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because they're just trying to do whatever they can

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to just stop it from happening, period.

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But that doesn't work.

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And we understand that it doesn't work.

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But they don't care because they're fascists

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and just want to abuse women.

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And so yeah, there has been a request to a judge

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to stop these laws so that we can figure out

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what the fuck we're supposed to do about them.

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Like, how do we make sure that our citizens

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aren't dying from extremely preventable things?

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Jesus Christ.

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Greg Abbott can eat actual shit.

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Like, there's very little left to say, like, fuck him.

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I'm getting very tired of talking about fascists in power

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who cannot reach climax unless they're using their laws

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to abuse citizens.

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But hey, good union stuff.

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Let's talk about that.

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So while the writers are on strike

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and the actors are now striking and UPS might strike

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and there was the union that was formed at Sega

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and a whole bunch of other unions coming together,

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very, very cool.

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And now Warner Bros. and Cartoon Network employees

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are possibly forming a union.

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They have filed a petition to do a vote

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and hopefully it'll happen.

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It's kind of like the Sega union.

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It's like an interdisciplinary union of just everyone.

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People across all types of jobs at these companies

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are all upset with them.

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It's not one job.

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It's all of them.

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Maybe treat your employees better.

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Wild concepts.

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Hey, what's up?

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Do you want to talk about something?

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Do you want to talk about the Federal Reserve

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and their new instant money transfer program?

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Oh yeah.

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Sorry about that.

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Yeah, the Federal Reserve is launching

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an instant money transfer program.

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This is a big deal and way, way overdue.

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So in the US, we are bad at everything.

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Other countries have had instant money transfer available

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at any time of the day, any day of the year for a while.

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And now that's coming to the US

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via a thing called FedNow.

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It is a service run by the Fed that allows banks

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to transfer money instantly at any time.

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Think about like a wire transfer

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and how it takes like multiple days.

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It's just gonna be like boop.

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Boop, you've got money.

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All that shit about like,

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oh, your funds will be settling your account

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in two to three business days.

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Gone, that's going away, hopefully.

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So that's cool and way overdue.

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But hey, dear YouTube and podcast viewers and listeners,

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allow me to expand on this topic in a tangent alert.

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Tangent alert.

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I used to work for a financial technology company.

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They refer to themselves as FinTech

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because they're very cool.

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I'm proud of the work I did there.

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I think it was helpful to like help people

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like democratize moving money around.

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That's cool, that's helpful and all that.

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It also shouldn't need to exist.

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There's a whole bunch of companies out there

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whose entire business model is,

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we're gonna try to simplify moving money around

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because there is no good method

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for people to just instantly transfer money safely.

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And so their product is,

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we're gonna make it easier to move money

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and we get a cut every time you move money.

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Think like PayPal.

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That's not who I work for, but stuff like that.

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Now all these companies would have their own way

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of doing things.

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A lot of them would just spend a lot of time

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doing the grunt work nobody would wanna do.

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Some of them would just have a big pool of money

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that they just kinda had in one big account

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and moved it around and just allocated it

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to make instant transfers.

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And then you've got PayPal, which is literally a bank.

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Now, yay, competition in this space is good,

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except it's also not really good

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because they're all trying to solve the same problem,

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which is a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place

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and all of their solutions are not good for the consumer.

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If you have money that you want to move for some purpose,

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you shouldn't have to pay money to move it.

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You should be able to move it.

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It shouldn't require a third party to come in

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and be like, we're gonna take a cut

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to make it slightly less hard to pay people.

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Like what the hell is the point of having a central bank

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if it's not being a central bank?

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This is actually kinda cool

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and it's gonna shake up the fintech industry.

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And I'm very glad that I don't work

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in the fintech industry right now

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because they're probably not very happy

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or they're gonna find a way to like keep people confused

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about how to actually use the FedNow service

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and so on and so forth.

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But we're gonna see some changes here soon, very hopefully.

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Moving on, Russia has been shelling Southern port cities

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in Ukraine after their deal

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to not bomb their grain exports has fallen through.

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Russia is saying that this is retribution

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for the destruction of a strategic bridge that they had

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and I don't see it because this retribution

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is going to negatively impact a bunch of countries

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that depend on those grain exports for food stability.

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So it's less retribution

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and more we're gonna make a humanitarian crisis.

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Again, I don't think Putin cares though

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because Putin himself is a humanitarian crisis.

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On this day in 1969, humans walked on the moon

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for the first time.

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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin hopped out

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of their little spacecraft

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and did a little bit of like this kind of move.

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And they were like, that's one small step for man,

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one giant leap for mankind

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and we will spend the rest of our lives

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arguing about whether or not he was saying

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that's one small step for man

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or one small step for a man, the moon lightning round.

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It is official the dolphin emulator for GameCube

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and Wii games will not be coming to steam.

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That doesn't mean you can't get it.

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It's been widely available on the internet for a long time.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene, who I try very hard

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to never have to actually talk about on this show,

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showed naked pictures of Hunter Biden in Congress

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as part of a hearing.

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The president of Stanford University is stepping down

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after controversies around papers that he authored

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that seem to have a lot of inaccuracy.

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Wildfires continue to rage around Athens

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in addition to obviously Canada

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and several other places right now,

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but they're working on it.

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Thumbs up.

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I will say at time of recording,

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Trump has not been indicted again,

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but he is almost definitely going to be indicted again

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in like the next few days or weeks.

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A first generation iPhone has sold at auction

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for 190,000 US dollars.

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Speaking of which, Apple is reportedly making

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a chat GPT competitor or their own sort of like GPT

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like AI thing is just rumors.

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Game company Blizzard is going to start bringing

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some of their games to Steam,

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starting with Overwatch 2.

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You know that game that everybody loves.

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After rolling out their ad supported tier,

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Netflix has killed off their basic tier.

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You have to have the ad supported tier

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if you want to not pay much money.

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And finally for today, Google is reportedly demoing

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to multiple news outlets, an AI tool to write news articles,

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which totally won't go bad.

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There's no way this is a bad idea.

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Thank you so much for listening to today's episode

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