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Hello, I set my clocks forward an hour, but stuff still happened.

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So what's up?

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Apple is pulling some next level bullshit for people in the EU and everyone.

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So it wasn't long ago that the iPhone got USB-C, finally, because the EU forced their hand.

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You know, that thing where you pass regulation to improve the lives of consumers.

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Anyway, the EU went off to go do another one of those and made it so that Apple has to allow third-party app stores on iPhone,

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to which Apple said,

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Fuck you.

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Now, they did comply.

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They had to, because laws.

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And if you're in the EU, you'll be able to get third-party app stores on your iPhone.

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But only if you are in the EU.

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If you leave, it's gone.

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Quite literally, if you take your iPhone out of the EU for more than 30 days,

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they disable the ability for you to use those third-party app stores.

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Just gone.

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You can't get updates, can't get new apps.

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Gone.

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Apple's very loud about calling this a privacy thing, a security thing,

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saying that having third-party app stores is a security risk, and so on and so forth.

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To which I say, fuck off.

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No, it's not.

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It's, I get it.

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I understand.

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But that's what policies are for.

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Not legal policies, phone policies.

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If you work in IT, you know what I'm talking about.

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If you truly need your iPhone to be secure, there are methods of locking it down.

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That's fine.

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Give those methods to people and give them the option to install third-party app stores.

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I bought it.

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I should be able to put whatever I want on it.

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I mean, you can with jailbreaking.

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You know what I mean.

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The average person shouldn't have to jailbreak their device to install a random app.

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Anyway, here's the dumbest part, and here's the example of why this is not just them exercising

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their business, right, but instead, like, literal malfeasance.

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Apple released a beta of their next version of the operating system,

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in which you could no longer install web apps on your phone.

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Now, for a lot of people, this doesn't mean anything,

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but you have the ability to install a website onto your homepage like an app.

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And in a lot of cases, they have additional app-like functionality when you do that.

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They're called progressive web apps.

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They are fine, but they're useful.

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They really help when there's not otherwise an app available.

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And Apple wanted to just get rid of them because they were like,

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well, we support third-party app stores, so we don't need to do this anymore.

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Never mind that we support third-party app stores in the EU and only in the EU.

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And if you leave, it's gone.

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There are a lot of these progressive web apps

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and they're used for a lot of different reasons.

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And so developers were like, hey, what in the fuck?

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They rallied super hard against Apple, and Apple was like, OK, psych, just kidding.

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The next update, we will restore that functionality for now.

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Like, quite literally, they just deleted the ability to get more value out of your device.

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Why? What are you doing?

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I mean, I know what you're doing.

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You're trying to get everybody to use your app store,

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so they have to use your payment methods.

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You can take a cut for everything,

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so you can profit more off your ecosystem with lock-in and blah, blah, blah, blah.

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Anyway, there's that.

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More like ripster teeth. Am I right?

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Famous internet publisher Rooster Teeth is kill.

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They are gone. They were acquired by Warner Bros. in 2021,

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and then they were murdered by Warner Bros. in today.

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The reasons for shutting down were certainly some reasons.

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Here's a quote. Rooster Teeth is shutting down due to challenges facing digital media,

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resulting from fundamental shifts in consumer behavior and monetization

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across platforms, advertising, and patronage, which means...

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It means reasons.

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It basically just sounds like things...

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What? Sounds like a skill issue to me.

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Anyway, I'm going to be honest with you.

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Don't hate me. I know nothing about Rooster Teeth.

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I know that they have got a really popular show.

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I believe it's called Ro Wubby, but I don't really know anything else about them.

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Like, I didn't even realize that they made Red vs. Blue.

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I thought that was somebody else.

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That's not me hating if this is your people.

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This sucks. I know how it feels to lose your people.

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It's not great. It's not wonderful how many times we've had to, like, watch

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a thing that we care about just go up in flames.

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And, like, yeah, Rooster Teeth has had some tumultuous history.

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As of late, I'm aware of that.

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Like, I've been on the internet.

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You can't avoid that level of drama, but it still sucks.

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And I want to acknowledge that.

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I don't have to like a thing to acknowledge that fan bases will hurt after it's gone.

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Anyway, the moral of this story is rip, rip, po, rip.

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Go by.

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Here's something lovely.

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Let's do that instead of not.

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I'm the words today.

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They're just not...

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They're not coming out in any reasonable format.

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I'm sorry. You kind of have to deal with it.

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A woman in the UK was cleaning up trash on a beach when she found messages in a bottle.

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Three of them. Three messages in one bottle, not three bottles with one message each.

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It's three in the one.

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It was an old Coke bottle, and it had three messages in it that were written by schoolchildren 40 years ago.

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1984. They wrote a book about it.

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So she opens them up and reads them, and it's cute.

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It's like an old school project, and these girls wrote a letter, a message in a bottle,

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and they pretended that their teacher had like kidnapped them and forced them to do horrible things like learn math.

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It's kind of funny. Kind of dark, but I dig it.

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Anyway, here's the fun part.

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The woman who found these messages in a bottle tracked down the women who originally wrote them.

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40 years on, they're all still somewhat in the area, and they're still friends.

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This is lovely. I like this.

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Let's ignore the part where it was a plastic bottle that was in the water for 40 years and didn't degrade.

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Let's ignore that and set focus on that this is fun.

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This is nice. We like this.

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The US State of the Union happened, and I would have preferred to have forgotten that it happened.

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I did forgotten that it happened until the Republican response came out.

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And what? So a response to the State of the Union from the currently not in power party is not rare.

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That's normal.

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But having Senator Katie Britt sitting in a kitchen nearly moved to tears about how America is going to hell

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and telling stories about sex trafficking is not normal.

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Tradwife Senator sniping back at an 81 year old man's speech is certainly a vibe.

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So she gave this whole speech.

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She talked about how we're going to hell and sex trafficking.

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Also as a reason that we need to lock up the border and failed to mention that the sex trafficking story that she told happened in the early 2000s in Mexico.

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I suppose nothing of that sort has ever happened since then at all.

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Anyway, a lot of the headlines are about that. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.

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But also Biden said some dumb words.

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He said some words, but then he also said some dumb words.

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He was essentially baited into talking about that story that Republicans were pushing about the trafficking thing.

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And he referred to someone as quote an illegal in 2024.

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We're still referring to living, breathing human beings, you know, the neighbors that were supposed to love die.

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An illegal.

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But maybe I'm wrong.

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Maybe when they said love thy neighbor, they meant like your immediate next door neighbor in an American suburb.

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That's the neighbor that they were talking about.

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Not the not the hungry one from a country we destabilized.

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Anyway, yeah, Biden said some words.

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It I don't it doesn't.

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Ha, yep. Yep.

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Tiktok is possibly being banned again in the U.S. again, kind of again, sort of.

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Here's the state of play because I've been seeing a lot of chatter about this and a lot of people are missing some significant details.

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This is no hate. It's just people seem to not pay attention to civics.

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There is a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, which would effectively force bite dance to sell off Tiktok.

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They're mad that bite dance owns Tiktok because China.

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Now, I would argue that it's more likely that these people are being paid by major media companies in the U.S.

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who have a vested interest in Tiktok going away.

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Otherwise, these bands would be more comprehensive and actually focused on improving the lives of Americans rather than just removing one single app because China.

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Anyway, the bill would force bite dance to divest Tiktok, which is probably not going to happen.

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And if it doesn't happen, then they're going to find Google and Apple in a grievous amount of money for distributing the app.

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So it's not a Tiktok ban. They can say it's not a Tiktok ban, but it's a Tiktok ban.

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Additionally, some of the leaders of the bill did outright call it a Tiktok ban.

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And like the bill was titled like Tiktok.pdf or some shit like that.

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Anyway, what happened is a committee in the house passed this bill unanimously.

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That doesn't mean it's passed. That means it's going to the floor for a full vote.

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Then the Senate has to also vote on it and pass it.

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And then the president has to sign it and he said he would.

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And then it's going to be challenged in courts because First Amendment because obviously the ACLU and the EFF are already saying they're going to do that.

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So like, no, the Tiktok ban did not pass. That didn't happen.

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It passed a single committee to go to the floor to do a vote to go to another place to do another vote

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that probably won't pass because the Senate is led by Chuck Schumer and he's not one to pass tech regulations.

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That's not a guarantee. That's just he's that's just that.

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So call your representatives.

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Annoy the hell out of them. Tiktok did a push notification that asked people to call the representatives.

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And the representatives are not happy about that.

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Like, they were inundated with calls and they were pissed.

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So if nothing else, call your representatives.

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Even if you don't believe in the process whatsoever, call your representatives just to be annoying.

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Just to be anywhere near as annoying as they are to us on a daily basis.

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Lightning round.

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United Airlines has had a lot of plain malfunctions recently,

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including a wheel just falling off of one of their planes after takeoff.

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If you recall that whole situation with Alec Baldwin being arrested because he shot somebody on set of the filming of the movie Rust,

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the armorer of that movie has now been found guilty for that incident.

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The beloved creator of Dragon Ball has passed away at the age of 68.

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A dude in Canada was arrested at a Walmart because he was threatening people with a katana.

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Yeah, Jake Paul and Mike Tyson are going to do a boxing match on Netflix.

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It's going to make a lot, it's going to make a lot of money.

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Tesla is now shipping their $3,000 tent attachment for the Cybertruck and it looks terrible.

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If you recall all that hubbub about like room temperature superconductor stuff that a physics lab recently was like,

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we did it, we made a superconductor and it's perfect.

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And then nobody else could replicate that.

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Yeah, they're being investigated because it turns out there was a lot of bullshit there.

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Weird how I said this doesn't seem to be a thing that's real and I got yelled at for it.

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It was a lie.

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Warner Bros really just doing some weird bullshit.

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They are now delisting adult swim games from Steam, like just removing those games entirely.

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They seem very interested in making everyone upset today.

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And finally for today, the next Super Mario movie has been announced and it's dropping in early 2026.

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Apparently.

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I hope we get to that year.

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That'd be nice.

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

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Head to StuffKeepsHappening.Online for sources, bonus content, and a funky fresh beat made just for you.

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I'll be back on Monday.

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Take care and be well.