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Hello.

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I defeated the last of the Prime Evils.

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But stuff still happened.

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So what's up?

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You're arrested, Harry.

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Cops in England were responding to a call

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saying that there was some dude walking around

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carrying a big knife at a hotel.

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A danger to everyone around him, pretty dang spooky.

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And so some cops showed up with guns

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to find out it wasn't a knife.

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It was a replica Harry Potter wand.

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And the person wielding it was just a dweeb.

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Not a knife, boy.

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Just a nerd.

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Anyway, the cops didn't kill anyone.

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And that's pretty good.

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Also, JK Rowling is a transphobic asshole.

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The ocean is not a car.

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Stop putting oil in it.

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It doesn't need it.

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The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago

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has announced that there is a national emergency

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as an unknown vessel has overturned off the coast

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and started spilling oil into the region.

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Oil has already been washing up on the beaches of Trinidad,

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and it's not a particularly under control situation.

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The Prime Minister has said they truly just

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don't know what this vessel is, where it came from,

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who owns it.

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Unclear, but it's pooping out a lot of oil,

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and divers have not been able to contain the spill.

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So it's a matter of trying to just sort of control Z,

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the oil out of the ocean now.

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And undoing something like that is a tall task,

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even for someone as talented as Clippy.

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But like, hey, what if we just had less oil in the ocean?

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That'd be cool.

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I would like that.

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I would personally be a fan of not having oil spills

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in the ocean, like every year, just constantly.

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I'm beginning to believe that a lot of the oil spills

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are just put on as PR stunts by the Dawn marketing team.

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The Democrat-controlled Senate in the US

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has passed a nearly $100 billion funding bill

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for wartime aid.

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This money will be going to Israel and Ukraine primarily,

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with a little bit set aside for humanitarian efforts

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for Gaza.

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Now, to be clear, we're sending more billions to Israel

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to fuck up Gaza, but you know.

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Anyway, to be clear, this isn't happening yet.

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They have passed it, but it has not been approved by the House.

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The House is controlled by Republicans,

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and they've already said they want to spend more money

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because they want to include stuff for the border.

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You know those highly related things, wartime aid

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and Southern border security for the US.

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So yeah, this is probably gonna result in some more back

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and forth between the House and the Senate,

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and ultimately is probably going to include some wins

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for Republicans and border funding stuff,

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because every other presidency, according to Republicans,

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the border just suddenly and desperately needs money.

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At this point, it might be cheaper to just build that wall

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out of the money we send to the border.

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The happiest place on earth is gonna unionize.

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Neat.

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Well, maybe they want to.

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Employees at Disneyland in California

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refer to as cast members,

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not unlike the sandwich artists of the subway clan,

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are getting together to unionize.

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About 1,700 employees have already picked up union cards,

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and they're looking to follow in the footsteps

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of their cousins over at the Florida location,

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Disney World.

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Yeah, Disney World, who are already unionized.

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They're seeking representation

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from the Actors Equity Association,

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which is, that took me a lot of,

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and that's a hard thing to say.

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Actors Equity Association, good Lord.

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Now, Disney is famously anti-union,

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but hopefully that won't be as much of a big deal

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since there's already some precedent here.

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I don't know why I'm giving them any benefit of the doubt.

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It'll be just that much more of a bad look

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if they try to union bust,

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because like, they already have a union

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at the Florida location, which is the bigger location.

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I'm pretty sure.

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Anyway, solidarity always,

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and hopefully they get what's theirs,

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because it's pretty difficult to make an argument

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that Disney can't afford to pay their employees properly.

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A somber note, in Kansas City, there was a shooting

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at the end of a parade celebrating their victory

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in the Super Bowl.

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22 people were shot, including eight children

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from a person who was spraying bullets into the crowd.

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However, from all of this,

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I just want to read a quote from the report,

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quote, the shooting outside Union Station

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happened despite more than 800 police officers

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who were in the building and around the area,

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including on top of nearby buildings,

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said the mayor, who attended with his wife and mother

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and had to run for cover when the gunfire broke out.

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According to the town's own mayor,

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a heavy police presence,

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including those stationed on vantage points,

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did not prevent a mass shooting event.

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That's all I'm gonna say about that.

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On this day in 2013, two meteors made headlines.

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Space people don't get mad at me.

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I know they're not, I know they're not both meteors.

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Just don't, let me just say meteor.

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The space rocks, the space, space boulders.

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So on that day, we were expecting one of these space rocks

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to just kind of flirt with the earth,

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to sort of skirt by.

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Its name was 367-943-Duende.

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Beautiful name.

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It was all over the news.

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We were getting excited about the passage of this space rock.

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But before that could happen,

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another one crashed into Russia.

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We had no idea it was coming.

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And suddenly a 60-foot diameter space rock

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just entered the atmosphere over Russia

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and then exploded,

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blowing out the windows in the nearby area

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and causing a massive fireball

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that ultimately injured 1,500 people.

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Apparently we didn't know it was coming

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because it was like obscured by the sun.

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So yeah, we were looking to the sky

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and expecting one of those sky rocks to kind of pass by.

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But another one was like,

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hey, meet first, lightning round.

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Despite the loud cries of capital G gamers,

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a recent report has found that about 2% of video games

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actually have any form of queer representation.

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According to a Wapo investigation,

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a Tesla employee who was involved in a fiery crash

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that ultimately took their life

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was using full self-driving mode at the time,

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drawing questions about why.

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Microsoft has announced that they're going to bring

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some of their first-party games to third-party consoles,

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including Sea of Thieves.

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So that's gonna be on PS5 and Switch.

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I cannot believe that I'm thanking Microsoft

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for bringing some good new games to the PS5.

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In a sign of the times,

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a water park in Sweden has caught fire.

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The Biden campaign has joined TikTok

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after not so long ago trying to ban TikTok nationwide.

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A man in England has become the first in the country

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to be charged with cyber flashing

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because he was sending unsolicited dick pics to people,

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including an underage girl.

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Don't do that.

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And finally for today,

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another door has fallen off another plane.

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Thankfully this time it was like a two-seater,

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like a small little craft and not an airliner.

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But quick question,

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why are so many doors falling off a plane suddenly?

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Who got cursed?

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Wait, I cursed people recently.

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Thank you so much for listening to today's episode

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of Stuff Keeps Happening.

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Head to StuffKeepsHappening.online

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and a hot bowl of oatmeal.

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Stick to your ribs.

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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.