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Hello. I protected the ranch from the invading aliens.

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But stuff still happened.

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So what's up?

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The iron must have been hot because the strike worked.

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Hell yeah. Still got it.

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Yeah, so the United Auto Workers, they are at three tentative deals with the three big automakers

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to get a lot more money.

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As a very quick summary, the United Auto Workers, who represents 150,000 auto workers

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from around the US, have been increasingly going on strike across the big three automakers,

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Ford, Stellantis, and GM.

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As those corporations have made record profits, they have not been doing record raises.

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For some reason, weird. I wonder why that didn't happen.

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But since the company didn't pay their due, the workers went on strike.

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And now it looks like they might win big.

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The full details of the deal are not out yet and union workers have yet to actually vote on it,

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but it's looking pretty good with raises up to 150% for starting workers.

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Really raises across the board, even for tenured workers and better retirement and more everything,

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including additional jobs.

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Like they were going to cut jobs, but the union was like, nah, you're going to give more jobs.

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Here's the weird part.

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When the workers were like, hey, you should pay us better and give us stable jobs,

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the companies were like, oh, we just can't do that.

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The money is just not there.

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And then now somehow the money is just there.

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Weird how they continue to lie as if we don't know what's going on.

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Anyway, massive props to UAW president Sean Fain,

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who has been an absolute badass throughout this whole thing.

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I hope everything works out and I hope all those workers get what's theirs.

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I'm going to need your help with this next one because I am lost.

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A man was found dead in a woman's bathroom at an amusement park in Colorado.

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He was carrying a semi-automatic rifle,

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handgun, magazines for both and several improvised explosives.

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It very much appears that this guy was planning to carry out a mass killing at this amusement park

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after breaking into it overnight and waiting for it to open up.

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Thankfully, he ate his own bullet before that happened.

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Investigations are still ongoing, but it's noted that he was wearing body armor,

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tactical gear and had patches and emblems that indicated,

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quote, association with law enforcement.

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I have to assume that means that he was one of those cosplayers that like

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wears thin blue line patches and Punisher logos and thinks he's really cool.

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Sorry, thought he was really cool.

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Anyway, here's my question.

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This is what I'm hung up on.

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This guy was planning to do a mass killing, but instead killed himself first.

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Does that make him a good guy with a gun or a bad guy with a gun?

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Hey, let's talk about fiscal responsibility.

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The Republican hallmark.

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Newly elected speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, has put forward a proposal

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to fund military aid to Israel by cutting more budget from the IRS.

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14.3 billion dollars of aid specifically.

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This is in response to Biden's request for all that aid to go out to Ukraine and Israel.

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But Johnson's like, now let's just focus on Israel right now.

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This is a top matter of national security.

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So let's cut funding to the IRS and give that money to Israel for war.

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That'll absolutely help balance the country's budget.

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Now, look, I don't stand the IRS, but they're not necessarily at the top

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of my list of government agencies that you're probably be getting less money.

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Their operating costs are already pretty low and they're already pretty underfunded.

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It's also noted by the CBO that for each dollar of budget that's given to the IRS,

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they can bring in five to nine dollars of income.

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And the less money the IRS has, the less rich people they can prosecute for avoiding taxes.

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And so it's a very convenient way to both use taxpayer money to fund foreign wars,

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while also making it easier for rich people to avoid paying taxes.

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What a great proposal.

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And I want to be clear, the Democrats also want to give this money to Israel.

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They just don't want to cut it from the IRS.

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This is your reminder that the United States does not have a left-wing party.

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Democrats are center-right.

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That is not a hot take.

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That is just international standards.

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Anyway, both of these parties want to send billions of dollars of aid to Israel

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to further their ethnic cleansing, which by the way,

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it recently came out that Israel's government literally has a document

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outlining a proposal to eject citizens from Gaza into Egypt.

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All of them.

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And that's not an exaggeration.

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Israel has literally said, oh yeah, we have that document.

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Don't worry about it.

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It's just a proposal.

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Don't worry about it.

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I do want to note, because I think it's important that you know,

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that there was a recent CBS poll that showed that

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public sentiment on the whole Israel thing is shifting.

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A majority of Americans are not in support of sending military aid to Israel.

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The only group that goes against that grain are Republicans.

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57% of Republicans do want to use taxpayer money to fund wars in Israel.

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53% of Democrats and 55% of independents would rather not.

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Instead, a majority of Americans are in support of providing humanitarian aid to the region.

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So, I mean, that doesn't translate to the actions of our government,

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but public sentiment is different.

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Anyway, my point is maybe give us health care.

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All right, this isn't really a news segment.

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This is a news segment about an article that I saw, and I just can't believe this exists.

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I just want you to, I want you to see what's on.

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I want you to see what's on here.

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Okay, because it's out of control.

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Publication The Economist has a whole ass article, unironically entitled,

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What a Third World War Would Mean for Investors.

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This is a real quote from the article.

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The scenario would, of course, place financial damage way down on the list of horrors.

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Even so, it is part of an investor's job to consider exactly what it would mean for their

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portfolio. Very normal train of thought, very healthy.

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On this day in 1604, William Shakespeare's Othello was performed for the first time

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at the Whitehall Palace in London.

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Exactly seven years later, on this day in 1611,

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Shakespeare's The Tempest was performed for the first time at the Whitehall Palace in London.

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What I'm getting at is this.

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I hope you brought a script to perform at the Whitehall Palace today,

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because I sure as hell did not.

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I'm really going to need your help on that one.

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Lightning Round.

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Twitter has dropped an eye-watering 56% in value since its original purchase

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for $44 billion, down to $19 billion.

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That is deeply overvalued in my opinion.

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YouTube is pushing forward with their work to block ad blockers,

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and will now begin, for some people,

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blocking entire videos if they detect that you're using an ad blocker.

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You can of course still get around this with various programs and whatnot,

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but for the average user, it's going to start being a problem.

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And it's gotten to the point that popular ad blockers are starting to really struggle

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to win this fight.

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But we'll see.

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Never underestimate the power of people not wanting to see ads.

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Speaking of dumb technology decisions,

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Microsoft's Xbox will now reject unauthorized third-party controllers.

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If you plug in a controller that they didn't approve of,

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you'll get a pop-up saying stop it.

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Very thoughtful of them, for accessibility controllers and whatnot.

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More dumb technology bullshit.

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Microsoft had an AI-generated poll appear next to an article about a woman who died.

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The poll was like, hey, how do you think she died?

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AI truly changing the world.

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According to reports, WeWork is on the brink of filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

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After fetching that asteroid sample and bringing it back to Earth,

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NASA is having some trouble opening up the capsule.

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They're only allowed to use certain tools that have been approved for use in the clean environment,

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and the tools they have are not cutting it, literally.

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And finally for today, Destiny 2 developer Bungie has laid off a whole bunch of staff,

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including really highly tenured people and their lead composer.

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They reportedly missed their earnings projections by 45%,

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and they have pushed out the next Destiny expansion by several months,

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and their next upcoming game has been pushed out to 2025.

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This never would have happened if Zavala and Eris could just understand

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that they are fighting for the same side.

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

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