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I collected all of the power stars, but stuff still happens.

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So what's up?

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Sokka must have made an arrowhead back in the Bronze Age.

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Archaeological researchers have been poring over a collection of artifacts recovered from

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the Bronze Age, trying to figure out if any of them came from space.

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Guess what?

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One of them did.

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An arrowhead in the collection very likely came from a meteor that crashed into earth

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from, well, space.

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And so this arrow that came from like 1500 BC was a space arrow.

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Now to be clear, the arrow was not made in space and then came to earth.

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It was just the iron came to earth and then was forged into an arrow.

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But here's the wildest part.

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They actually think they know which meteor it came from.

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Meteorite, whatever.

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Because they're way smarter than I am, they're able to actually look at the composition of

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the arrowhead and they can match it to a known meteor slash meteorite, whichever one, that

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landed in modern day Estonia.

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It didn't land in modern day, but it landed in the area that it landed in.

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You get what I mean.

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Apparently it kind of like went like kaboom on earth and made a crater.

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And then it had a whole bunch of like pieces of it fractured off from the kaboom and landed

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all over the place.

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And people came by and they're like, that's some good metal.

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And then they turned it into arrowheads and shot each other.

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And now I'm talking about it.

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Pretty amazing.

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Moving on.

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Let's talk about the labor implications of shaking it off.

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So you're probably aware that Taylor Swift is on tour and you might have even heard that

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Taylor Swift is like bringing massive economic windfall to wherever she plays.

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But now there's a bit of a mess because hotel workers in LA are currently on strike asking

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for better pay so that they're able to afford living anywhere closer to work and have shorter

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commute.

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A lot of them are paid very poorly and have to commute very far just to work instead of,

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you know, being able to live in the area that they work in.

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You know, that thing that you should be able to do.

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But LA is a tour stop for your girl.

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And so local officials are now writing to Taylor asking her to postpone her show there

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to stand in solidarity with the striking workers.

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Notably a lot of the hotels affected by this strike are the hotels around the LA airport.

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So it's going to be a mess.

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I have absolutely no expectations that Taylor would actually postpone a show in LA.

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Like the sheer logistics of the matter.

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I just don't see it happening.

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But maybe, possibly, perhaps, may chance.

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Disclaimer.

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I know virtually nothing about Lizzo, but here's what I've gathered.

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So a lawsuit has been filed against Lizzo, a super popular singer songwriter artist in

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general who's also known for body positivity messaging being plus size herself.

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The lawsuit was brought to her from former dancers who allege a very hostile work environment,

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sexual assault, harassment and like pushing her religion on them and a whole bunch of

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other just really gross stuff.

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I don't want to get into the specifics of it because it's fairly triggering and just

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really graphic in general and largely just summarizes to Yikes.

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She ain't good.

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Lizzo has responded by posting to her Instagram with a message that largely summarizes to

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Na-ah, the message starts by saying these are false allegations.

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It goes on to then say that these dancers are liars and then goes on to say that she's

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just passionate and very openly sexual, which doesn't really help her case here.

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It's not a good post.

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It's not a good deflection.

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It's not a good apology.

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It's not owning up to anything.

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It's not really doing anything besides saying Na-ah, because on one side we have multiple

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women with matching stories coming out against a person of extreme wealth, power and influence.

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And on the other side, we have the person with the extreme wealth, power and influence

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saying nope.

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And so here's the thing.

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I have like no prior conception of Lizzo.

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I know a lot of people really like her.

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I'm just like not tuned in to most modern music right now.

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But like what I see here is people who have been potentially abused saying, hey, we've

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been abused and the potential abuser being a person of wealth and power and status comparatively.

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Anyway, turns out working from home is good for the economy.

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Who would have thought that?

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What an unbelievable concept.

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So while a bunch of CEOs and manager types want you to get back to the office so they

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can like, I don't know, slowly stroke themselves while they watch you work, it turns out that's

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not actually necessary to make the economy better.

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They just, you know, have a sunk cost in the office and want to feel like they have power

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over you.

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So yeah, a bunch of like city centers that have been like constructed around office jobs

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and whatnot, they're going to suffer.

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But the broader economy has actually been trending fairly okay in terms of like GDP,

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not in terms of people being able to afford the basic needs.

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But we now have a huge increase of people working from home, which means less people

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who are commuting, spending money on their commute, spending money on expensive lunches

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and whatever.

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And so they're saving money, they're saving time, and they're using that time and money

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to do like leisure thing, hobbies and shows and whatnot.

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Travel either.

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And this has led to an increase in GDP and increase in local economy improvements and

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like, I mean, the whole Taylor Swift thing, she's performing at places and brings millions

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and millions of dollars wherever she goes.

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The landscape is changing a little bit and hopefully offices just kind of go to die eventually

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because office jobs are literal hell.

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Pardon my horrible pronunciation, but I'm going to try.

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Today in 1755 was the birthday of Nicolas Jacques Conte.

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He was a French author and an inventor and engineer and a whole bunch of different stuff.

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He was also big into hot air balloons and he had a hot air balloon that he flew around

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and then he invented the modern pencil.

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What a guy.

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It contains multitude.

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Oh, he was also a painter and was in the army.

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This guy lightning round.

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There's been a lot of excitement around the JWST potentially identifying a bunch of new

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black holes we didn't know existed before, but they're all like preprint studies.

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They're not like peer reviewed and whatnot yet.

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So we can get hype, but don't get too hype just yet.

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The Ghost Kitchen Company being sued by Mr. Beast is saying that he's being a big meanie

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weenie to them and that he's hurting their feet.

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There was a super moon this past Tuesday and if you missed it like I did, don't worry.

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There's going to be another even more super moon on August 30th.

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A lawsuit has been filed against Taco Bell alleging that they're misrepresenting their

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food in promotional images.

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The U.S. Capitol was evacuated under threat of an active shooter situation and it turns

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out it was probably just a prank call.

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If you are one of the people paying Elon Musk a monthly fee to use X, you can now hide the

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blue checkmark out of your embarrassment.

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A pill that shows promise in the aid of attacking cancerous tumors is moving to human trials.

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To be clear, this is not a cure for cancer in a pill form.

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It's just another in an arsenal of helping, you know, with cancer.

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YouTube shorts is getting some updates to help compete more with TikTok.

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They're going to add support for their own version of like duetting and whatnot.

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YouTube shorts.

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It feels so tacked on.

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I want to use it.

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I want to use it more, but like I it's just so half baked.

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The Department of Education in Florida has informed the College Board that AP psychology

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is illegal to teach in Florida because of Ron DeSantis's new rules trying to just snuff

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out queer people.

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AP stands for Advanced Placement.

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It's essentially a way for high school students to do like a mixed high school college course

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kind of thing.

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And psychology includes talking about sexuality and gender identity.

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That's just what research does.

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And if you're an aspiring psych student in Florida, you're just screwed because your

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governor is a bigot.

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And finally for today, as part of the lawsuit around the infamous school shooting at Marjory

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Stoneman Douglas High School, they're going to recreate the shooting.

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Like ballistic experts are going to go into the school and fire off all the shots that

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were fired for research.

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That's yikes.

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Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening.

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But regardless, my name is Endeavorance.

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Take care and be well.