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Hello.

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I waited till my chickens hatched to count them.

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But stuff still happens.

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So what's up?

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This is your annual reminder that physics is just our best guess.

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A bunch of science people at Fermilab, a particle physics lab in the US,

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may have discovered evidence for a fifth force of nature.

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Or rather, they found measurements that imply that there might be something to do

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with possibly the fifth force of nature that we don't understand.

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It's all kind of up in the air.

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While yes, our current model of physics does a pretty dang good job

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at letting us calculate stuff, it's not perfect.

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And sometimes we see things that we can't explain,

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and we're like, oh, dang it, we're off by a little bit again.

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So we've got four fundamental forces, right?

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Gravity, electromagnetic force, strong nuclear force, and weak nuclear force.

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But there might be a fifth one that acts on muons.

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Muons.

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Muons.

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Moana?

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So moanas are like electrons, except they have a different charge.

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They don't last very long, and they move in a predictable pattern,

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except sometimes they wobble in the wrong way.

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And then we're like, ah, dang, that's not physics.

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It's not my physics.

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That's someone else's physics.

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And so the science people are watching these moanas do their thing,

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and they're like, well, this might be a new force.

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Anybody else?

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New force?

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Yeah?

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So don't worry, we're not about to upturn all of physics

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and change all of reality or anything anytime soon.

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But it's just a reminder that physics is a model of how we think things work.

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Not a hard and fast rule is just like, this seems right.

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It seems pretty right.

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The big crypto boy is going to jail.

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Sam Bankman Freed, head crypto bro from FTX, is going to jail

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because he was previously just awaiting trial under house arrest.

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But then the state was like, eh, he's doing some witness tampering.

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The witness tampering that he was doing was leaking his ex-girlfriend's

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diary entries to the New York Times.

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She is also very not good and is also a part of this whole debacle

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and has also already pled guilty.

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And so the state is calling this witness tampering,

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and they're putting him in jail until his trial.

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If you're not familiar, FTX was this big crypto firm

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that was supposed to be like the big secure crypto bank and exchange

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and all this stuff.

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It was supposed to be like the messiah of crypto apps.

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And turns out it was still a crypto thing.

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And so it was just rife with fraud.

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It collapsed in what people referred to as bigger than Enron.

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And this dude is now like one of the biggest white collar crime boys ever.

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Hey, fuck the Sackler family.

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Hey, say it with me. Fuck the Sackler family.

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You don't need to know who they are to hate them.

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But here's who they are.

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They're the people who caused the opioid crisis.

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I mean, that's giving them a lot of credit,

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but they are the family behind OxyContin.

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You know, the opioid crisis one.

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They are the family behind Purdue, the pharmaceutical company

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that has now filed for bankruptcy because they were sued to hell and back

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because the opioid crisis that they did.

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You know, the whole pushing addictive and harmful medication

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onto people who were seeking medical help.

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That little ditty.

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And then they made billions of dollars off of it.

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And now they're trying to get shielded from liability for what they did.

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A settlement from this whole thing included a stipulation

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that the Sackler family themselves could not be held liable for what they did.

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However, the Biden administration stepped in right before this closed

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and said, A.O. Supreme Court, can we hit pause on this?

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Because we've got some more arguments to make because these people should be held liable.

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So notably from the class action perspective,

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this would delay actually getting the payout.

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But people in the class are like, yeah, can we actually hold them responsible?

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And so a lot of people are OK with this, you know, wait a little bit on the money

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to hopefully get more justice, possibly.

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But it's not a done deal.

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The Sackler family might still be able to weasel their way out of this

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because they're a bunch of billionaires after all.

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And that's how that works.

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Speaking of just like the dumbest lawsuit.

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All right. So, you know, the Internet Archive, have you ever heard of the way back machine?

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You ever use that to go look up an old web page?

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If not, the Internet Archive is just an online archive of stuff.

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It's a nonprofit that's just trying to preserve as much as they can online and offline.

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They have a bunch of projects just trying to keep things available.

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It's almost like they're an archive on the Internet.

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Anyway, they've got a project going on right now called Project 78

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that's trying to digitize an archive, both physical and digital copies

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of 78 RPM vinyls from like way back from dead artists like Frank Sinatra.

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The goal is to take these vinyls and preserve them as is,

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including all of their faults or scratches or any recording artifact

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instead of just having the digitized masters from wherever else.

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So they made the recordings of it and they put it up on the Internet Archive.

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And now they're being sued for over $400 million by a bunch of record labels.

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Record labels are saying that the archival thing is just a smoke screen

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and that the Internet Archive wants to undermine copyright law

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and do online streaming for free.

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They're just trying to give people free access to art, the horror.

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Can you imagine the irreparable harm that would befall the recording industry

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if someone could listen to a free copy of Frank Sinatra on the Internet?

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It's really just a horrible way to live.

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Let's get our best and brightest legal minds on this straight away.

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On this day in 1901, Gustav Whitehead claimed that he was the first person

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to achieve powered flight.

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He didn't. And most historians agree that he didn't.

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But I wanted to talk to you about this for a very specific reason.

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As I was digging through the things that happened today,

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I was reading the Wikipedia article on this flying machine

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and the whole claim that this flying machine was the first powered flight.

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The article is noted as disputed.

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And when I clicked through to the discussion page amongst Wikipedia editors

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to talk about the article, someone was a little passionate.

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I am not making fun of this person.

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I genuinely appreciate the passion with which these people approach their work.

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Let me read you a quote of a description of this article from an editor.

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The title of the entry was,

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This article is a disgrace to Wikipedia.

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Quote, I am frankly astonished that an article so clearly and unambiguously written

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in a manner intended to facilitate the dubious claims

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of those promoting Whitehead's supposed flights

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has been allowed to stand in the condition it is for so long.

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Get him, lightning round.

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After implementing a 4% tax on people making over a million dollars a year,

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Massachusetts is now able to feed their schoolchildren breakfast and lunch free of charge.

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Weird.

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A massive and shocking house explosion in Pennsylvania has left five dead

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and there are ongoing efforts to figure out what the hell caused it.

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The gas company says that all things were seemingly normal around there

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and the electric grid has been turned off

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and they said it might take literally years to figure it out.

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YouTube continues to ratchet up their war against ad blockers,

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now rolling out a thing that delays you from watching your video

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if you use an ad blocker.

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Jeff Bezos has purchased a home on an exclusive man-made island

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with super high security off the coast of Miami.

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It's commonly referred to as the billionaire's bunker.

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They literally have armed guards 24-7

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and are considering installing a laser perimeter.

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Gotta keep the pores out.

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And finally for today, the Hunter Biden probe continues to go on

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as the Department of Justice in the US has appointed a special counsel to look into it.

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We have a lot of special counsels now.

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I want to be a special counsel.

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Hey, can I be a special counsel?

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

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Head to StuffKeepsHappening.online for sources, bonus content,

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and an ice cold glass of lemonade.

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My name is Endeavorance. I'll be back on Wednesday.

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Take care and be well.