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Hello. I completed all of my research upgrades.

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But stuff still happens.

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So what's up?

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At attention, patriots, we salute law enforcement.

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But not that kind of law enforcement.

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The good kind of law enforcement.

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Now you might be asking me, what is good law enforcement?

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I have never heard of that.

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Well, I'll tell you.

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We stan the booty patrol.

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A man in Florida was cited by cops for driving a truck that looked like a border patrol truck,

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but it wasn't.

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It was a booty patrol truck.

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It had flashing lights like law enforcement and it had glowing wheels and it said booty

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patrol on the back.

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While I am not a fan of ice, I am a fan of ice seed dat booty.

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Presumably the truck was out doing the rounds to make sure that all booty was up to code.

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I commend him for that.

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But as always, the cops didn't like it.

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And so they were like, stop it.

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That's the story.

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Anyway, corporate realtors were kind of held accountable.

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Almost, I mean slap on the wrist, but still.

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A jury in the US found that the National Association of Realtors was conspiring to keep prices artificially

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high for some commissions.

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It basically shakes out such that there are just a whole bunch of parties involved in

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real estate sales and not all of them need to be there, but all of them were still getting

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paid.

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Paid more than they needed to be for not doing a whole lot.

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The long and short of it is people working to keep people making money off of basically

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no work for the purpose of continuing to extract money from the system.

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And guess who loses?

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As always, it's us.

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My understanding is that it's kind of similar to the bullshit in like the medical insurance

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industry where it's just like, let's just use funny money and see what ends up coming

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into our pockets.

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Anyway, various massive corporate realtor groups now have to pay about $2 billion in

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damages that might go up.

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That's nothing to them, but it's more accountability than we had before.

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So neat.

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Accountability is going to be a bit of a theme from here on out.

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So here we go.

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Hey, New York, how's your mayor?

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Is he a cop?

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Is he being investigated by the FBI?

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Yeah, if you weren't aware, New York City's Mayor Eric Adams is a cop.

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And that's surprising because everyone hates the NYPD.

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I don't know either.

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Anyway, he's under investigation for possible corruption by the FBI.

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Shocker.

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Recently, this investigation broke more into the public eye as the head of his campaign

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fundraising had her home raided by the FBI.

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They are looking into possible corruption with taking money from the Turkish government

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and there's like a construction company involved.

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It's the whole nine yards.

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We could bust out the conspiracy board if you want.

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Wild.

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A cop politician possibly doing corrupt things.

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Who would have seen?

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I can't even believe it.

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Sam Bankman Fried, disgraced former head of crypto company FTX,

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has been found guilty on all charges of fraud that he was facing in trial.

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He now stands convicted on top of about $10 billion of fraud.

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FTX was kind of this like crypto golden boy.

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It was supposed to be this financial institution that brought stability to the crypto world and

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gave people a platform to join the crypto revolution.

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It was actually just a fraud front.

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It has been heavily compared to Enron in terms of giant corporate collapses.

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So much so that the guy who came in to fix Enron after all that happened,

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came into FTX as well.

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And when he walked in there, he was like,

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what the hell is all of this?

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He was shocked at just how bad the situation actually was.

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And this is the guy that cleaned up like the biggest corporate mess in US history.

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Anyway, while he was supposed to go up and do his testimony,

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Sam Bankman Fried essentially just walked up to the podium and

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said all of the wrong things.

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His defense essentially amounted to like,

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no, I didn't do fraud.

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I didn't mean to do it.

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I didn't do fraud.

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No, you did fraud.

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Ha ha.

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Uno reverse card.

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Anyway, he's going to jail and whatnot.

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But like what gets me here is that this isn't an isolated thing.

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This dude is doing the same fraud that like every other major corporation is doing.

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He just was bad at it.

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He was blatant and he didn't hide his tracks well.

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And he didn't have a good enough PR team around him to spin it.

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He didn't have a good enough legal team to cover his ass.

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This is all going on constantly.

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Probably not to the same degree in one place as this was,

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but amortized and spread out over a bunch of other corporations

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or just being done in broad daylight by corporations that are too big to go after.

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Show me a CEO who isn't corrupt and I will ask you to leave my house.

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How did you get in here?

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On this day in 1973, NASA launched the Mariner 10 space probe towards Mercury.

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It was the first space probe to actually reach Mercury.

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It did multiple flybys of Mercury.

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It also passed by Venus at one point.

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As it passed by Venus, it also became the first space probe to send back images of Venus to Earth.

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Previous probes had sent back like data and stuff,

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but none of them had actually given us their Snapchat.

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Lightning round!

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A new treatment for super gonorrhea has apparently passed medical trial.

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Apple is shutting down their voice only plan for Apple Music,

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which was a plan that gave you access to their music library,

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but you could only access it through voice commands to Siri.

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Wow, weird that they would shut that down.

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Disney will be acquiring a remainder of a controlling stake on Hulu from Comcast,

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citing that this will, quote, further Disney's streaming objectives.

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I love furthering my streaming objectives.

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The Texas Rangers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-0 in the baseball World Series.

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That is the end of my knowledge of this situation.

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I didn't know the World Series happened.

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The Republican controlled US House of Representatives has passed their $14.3 billion aid package for Israel.

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Biden has said he's going to veto it, not because of the money and not because of, you know,

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it's going to Israel, but because of the method of getting that money.

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You watch my previous episode for more.

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And finally, for today, if you live in the EU,

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Metta is rolling out a subscription option for using Facebook and Instagram without ads

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in order to comply with privacy regulations in Europe.

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In a statement, Metta declared, quote,

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will continue to advocate for an ad-supported Internet.

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Man, what a righteous cause.

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

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Had the stuff keeps happening to online for sources,

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bonus content and five gallons of freshly squeezed orange juice.

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It helps a ton.

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My name is Endeavorance.

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I'll be back on Monday.

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Take care and be well.