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Hello, I took a little over a week off.

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And stuff has happened.

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So what's up?

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Would you like to buy a castle?

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Me too.

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But it's too late for you, loser, because Samantha Kane,

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sorry, Lady Samantha Kane already snatched it up.

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So there's this castle called Carbisdale Castle.

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It's been pretty decrepit.

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It's got some water problems and whatnot, and it's been kind of sold

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a few times in the past handful of years.

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But Samantha Kane was like, hey, I want that castle.

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She saw that a pending deal had fallen through, booked a flight over there

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toward the castle and was like, here's my offer.

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And it was accepted.

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And so now she's Lady Kane of Carbisdale Castle.

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I'm legit jealous.

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That said, there's a lot of work that needs to be done.

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It's a bit of a fixer up for Castle, you know?

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And so she's been working on renovations, making it not, you know, filled with water

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and making it livable.

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She literally lives there full time now.

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She's also looking into adding lodging on the premises, opening a distillery,

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making part of the castle be a museum, just generally trying to make it

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a neat space at her castle that she has.

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And I don't want a castle.

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I just feel like I'd be really good with a castle.

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I feel like just, you know, opening up the door to the to the overlook

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and stepping on out and surveying my domain.

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It just feels natural.

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I feel like I should have that.

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I guess Minecraft is enough.

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India went to the moon on the south of it.

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Yeah, India landed a lander, a lunar lander even on the south pole

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of the lunar moon, the moon.

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India went to the south pole of the moon.

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They were kind of in a bit of a race with Russia and Russia crashed into the moon.

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But India didn't.

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They landed it and they're happy about that.

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And they're sending pictures back to Earth.

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And that's pretty cool. Hasn't been done before.

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Well done, science people.

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You did really good. I want to go to the moon.

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Where's my castle on the moon?

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Also, the mission is more than just like landing there.

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They landed there and now they're going to do science there.

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But but landing there was also a first and kind of a big deal.

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So snaps. I don't have a free hand, but snaps.

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Kooz are all the rage right now.

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Gabon is following through.

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The military and Gabon has seized power from their president

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just moments after the election was called for their president.

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This was going to be the start of another term for their sitting president.

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The current president took over for his father in 2009,

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who was the president of the country since 1967.

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This one family has had essentially a 60 year rule over the country

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and citizens of the country aren't feeling it.

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The president is under house arrest from the military who says fuck that guy.

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But the president was like, hey, take to the streets, citizens.

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Make noise in my name.

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And the citizens took to the streets and they were like, yeah, fuck that guy.

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They did not quite make noise in his name so much as making noise against his name.

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But aside from the president, whose family has been in power for 60 years,

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guess who else is upset about this?

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Did you guess France?

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That was easy.

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Yep, France is.

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France is upset about another coup happening in one of their former colonies.

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Weird how that keeps happening.

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Yeah, this is right on the heels of the coup in Niger.

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And there's been a whole bunch of other coups in the region just since 2020.

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Like this is this is kind of speeding up a bit.

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But weird, maybe African countries should be owned by the people who live there.

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Which one of you climbed a dangerous mountain in Switzerland to steal $500?

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Come on, fess up. I know it was one of you.

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A climbing club in Switzerland that volunteers

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to maintain climbing routes among mountains and whatnot is flabbergasted

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because they have a donation box at the top of one of their hardest routes.

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And someone stole money from it.

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Someone climbed up vertical ladders, bolted into the side of a mountain

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and crossed gaps on thin wires and did some real mountaineering

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just to get to this box, smash it open and steal like $500.

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Although the equivalent of $500 in Swiss francs.

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But but but still, that's not who does that.

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And specifically a donation box, too.

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Like this is a donation box for the people who maintain this trail.

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And so the club members are just kind of like sad about this.

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Just like who who does that? Why?

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There's so much easier stuff to steal, like to steal literally anything else.

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You heard it here first, folks. Steal literally anything else.

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On this day in 1791, the HMS Pandora ran aground off the Great Barrier Reef.

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They they wrecked badly.

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The ship was carrying a bunch of prisoners

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because they were sent after the HMS Bounty to find the famous mutineers from said ship.

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They did it and then they crashed.

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Notably, aside from you should go read about the HMS Bounty because that story is wild.

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The HMS Pandora was part of the porcupine class of ships.

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I just think that's pretty cute.

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Lightning rap. A man in Tennessee was arrested and charged with handling

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controlled substances after leaking and selling copies of the upcoming Starfield game.

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Polling shows that most Americans think Joe Biden is way too frickin old for another term.

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X, formerly Twitter, has fallen down the rankings in the App Store

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because no one knows what the hell X is.

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Meanwhile, Twitter Lite, which is an app that was specifically made for emerging markets,

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which is to say places that have poor bandwidth and whatnot, is rising the ranks

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because it's still called Twitter Lite.

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And so people search for Twitter and they find that and no one knows what the hell X is.

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The dude who was the head of the Wagner Group,

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the group that did almost coup against Putin, but then called it off.

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He got he's dead.

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Almost definitely assassinated.

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He was in a plane. The plane crashed.

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Almost definitely assassinated.

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Dropbox had to get rid of their unlimited tier

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because a bunch of crypto bros were abusing it.

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Remember Joe the plumber? He died.

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3M is going to pay out $5.5 billion to settle lawsuits over earplugs

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they made for like military purposes. That didn't work.

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And finally for today, Eminem has had to reach out to Vivek Ramaswamy

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to ask his campaign to fucking stop using his music.

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Not even just using his music, but Ramaswamy like performed an Eminem song.

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And Eminem is like, what the hell? Stop. Stop that.

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Oh, and tonight, Wednesday, August 30th, there's going to be a blue supermoon.

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So watch the sky.

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

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Head to Stuff Keeps Happening dot online for sources, bonus content,

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and the sky that you should watch.

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

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Take care and be well.