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Hello, I recorded this on a leap day, but stuff still happened.

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So what's up?

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Dr.

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Ruth L.

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Goatsman is a real one.

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This absolute baller found out that after her husband died, he left her a billion

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dollars in investments that he had.

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Dude kicked it and was like, Hey, here's a billion.

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Go do something with it.

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When he left it to her, he actually said, like, do what you think is best with it.

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And so she did what she thought was best and changed the lives of hundreds

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of people forever.

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She gave it all away, making a $1 billion donation to the Albert Einstein

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College of Medicine in New York.

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And specifically that billion dollars is going to make that college tuition

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free for perpetuity.

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She made this announcement to a room full of students who lost their damn minds

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rightfully so because she just came up and followed through with the Scots

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Tots promise.

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I don't I don't actually watch that much of the office.

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I just that's like the one reference that I think I can like safely make.

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Here.

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So yeah, weird.

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If you come into a billion dollars, you can give it away.

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Yep.

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But hey, I'm sure all those people who are just hoarding their billions and

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billions of dollars totally have a good reason for it.

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No, no, no, we're going to do good with this money.

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But first I got to grow it a lot more and then get myself a private island and

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then get myself a private jet.

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I'm going to do a lot of good with the money.

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I'm going to do some side projects and trust I got it, but I got to grow it first.

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Mitch McConnell is retiring and not a century too late.

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Mitch McConnell, the leader of the U.S.

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Republicans in the Senate, has finally announced that he's going to retire in November.

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This man has been basically at the center of everything shitty that has happened

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in America for my entire fucking life.

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He is the conduit through which Roe v. Wade was overturned.

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He is the one who made the extremely unacceptable decision to just not allow

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Obama to seat a Supreme Court justice and then let Trump seat three.

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Like we all know that was bullshit and he knows it too.

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And he doesn't give a shit.

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And that's been his entire political career.

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And it's been a long one.

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He is the longest running Senate leader ever in this country, during which time

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he basically prevented any bills from going through, stopped any notion of

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actually working together and just let money run wild in DC.

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So yeah, he's retiring, but damn, has he earned it.

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He has he has said his piece.

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I will give you an update for when he finally fucking dies so that we can all

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meet up at his grave and have a group shit.

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Love a good group shit.

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Dust off that hole and get yourself an amethyst to eat.

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Stardew Valley 1.6 comes out March 19th.

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Concerned eight creator of Stardew Valley told us forever ago that patch

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one point six is coming out.

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And he was like, it's not going to be a lot.

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It's mostly just for like mod support and stuff.

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And then we didn't hear anything for a while.

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And then he was like, psych.

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I lied.

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It's there's a lot in this patch.

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New dialogue, new character porches for winter time, new characters,

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maybe new end game content, eight player multiplayer support natively.

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Like it's wild.

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It's wild how much stuff has happened in this game.

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And it's mind boggling that all of this is just free content updates.

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There is a reason that everyone likes Stardew Valley specifically.

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And this is why.

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And the entirety of the games industry has just been trying to recapture

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this lightning in a bottle and failing.

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Like how many farming life sims are out there that you played and maybe it was

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good, but then you just went back to Stardew Valley because that's like,

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it's the better one.

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Anyway, it's coming out on March 19th.

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He announced it recently because it was the eighth anniversary of Stardew Valley,

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which is whack.

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If you need me, I'll be looking for the mayor's trunks.

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Medical science again, again with the medical science.

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Y'all, but seriously, like allergies might not be that important anymore.

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And they are.

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This is hold on.

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So look, your food allergies are not about to go away with a pill, but researchers

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have published a paper in which they experimented with people with severe

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allergic reactions to food in giving them a drug that was originally approved

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for asthma.

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After just 16 weeks of treatment, research showed that the patients who were

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taking the drug had a significantly lower reaction to the foods they were

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allergic to than the placebo group.

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Now, what this looks like is like if you have a severe peanut allergy and you

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were on this treatment, you could have like a few peanuts and you would still

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have a reaction, but it wouldn't be deadly.

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The goal here is to prevent accidentally ingesting something and dying, not making

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it so that you can just go ham on a jar of peanut butter.

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But like that's significant.

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I would bet that there's a good contingent of people who are like, hey,

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yeah, I would like to not almost die if I accidentally sniff a peanut.

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Seems pretty good.

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I sniff peanuts all the time.

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What?

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Anyway, the drug is omalizumab.

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It was originally approved for asthma and then some kind of nasal

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polyps.

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Yum.

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It's really just like all in one.

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You got, you got asthma, you got nasal polyps, you got allergies.

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Just take the pill easy.

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Yeah, my brain is just like melting at this point.

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Lightning round.

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Wendy's made a statement in an earnings call talking about experimenting

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with variable pricing throughout the day.

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And then when everybody was like, Hey, what the fuck are you doing?

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They were like, I don't know.

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We're not doing surge pricing.

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We're doing the reverse of surge pricing.

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Trust us.

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Stop being upset.

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According to internal documents that were acquired by four or four media,

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Tumblr and WordPress are interested in selling their user data to AI

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companies like mid journey.

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Are you a person on Tumblr who posts art?

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Now you're feeding the AI's and they profit off of your artwork.

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They being the AI company and Tumblr.

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Speaking of AI, Google's AI is such a mess right now that the CEO of Google

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was like, this is unacceptable.

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It's still trying to spit out the very like boring liberal ideology of what

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like being thoughtful and inclusive is kind of stuff, you know, like showing

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black women as Nazis.

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Quick aside, it makes me incredibly mad that like in all of this discussion

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about like wokeness, it's just so fucking bad faith.

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And like the wokeness in air quotes that like the conservatives are mad about,

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it does exist among people who are just being performative about it.

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Like it's the people who think that the army needs to meet its quota of trans

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people so that we can have good representation.

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Like that's like, God stop it.

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I'm just very tired of the rainbow flags on our bombs crowd.

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Apple has scrapped their years long internal attempt at making an electric

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vehicle. This doesn't change anything.

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It was yet another brutal day for video game employees yesterday as EA and

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Sony have laid off a collective 1,600 people from like successful studios

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underneath them because reason.

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Someone hacked into the late Matthew Perry's Twitter account and used it to

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shill a crypto scam 2024.

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And finally for today, rejoice because the Justice Department is now going to

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look into that whole airplane doors blowing off of them while they're in

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the sky thing that's happening with Boeing airplanes.

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

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Thank you so much for listening.

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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.