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Hello. I put my thing down, flipped it, and reversed it.

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But stuff still happened.

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So what's up? It Eclipse. It's Eclipse Day.

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It's time there's an eclipse today.

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Um, a sort of a total one. Totally an eclipse.

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If you're in North America, you're almost definitely aware,

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possibly on the road or already where you're at to go look at the sun.

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Do that carefully. Y'all, I'm serious.

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Like, I'm I'm for I'm for so serious right now.

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Sunglasses aren't enough. Use the big boy eclipse glasses.

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It's important.

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So the scientific explanation of an eclipse is it's when the moon goes in front of the sun

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and punches it in its stupid butt-ogly face,

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and then the sun's like, I've been hit! I've been hit!

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And then it runs away, never to be seen again for a few minutes.

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It doesn't leave us forever. Like, some people.

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But yeah, if literally any bit of the sun is visible,

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don't be looking at it with your fleshy, fleshy eyes. Like, it'll just burn them.

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And then you won't be able to see.

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And if you can't see, then how are you going to see why kids love, uh,

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the taste of cinnamon toast crunch?

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Not sponsored. I hope that's not Kellogg's. Is that Kellogg's?

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It's General Mills. All right, we good.

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Anyway, have fun looking at the sun. Do it safe.

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Uh, I guess have fun looking at not the sun.

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It's pretty wild. I was at the 2017 one in the path of totality, and it's it is weird.

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It does get noticeably cooler and then like birds stop singing and is, is weird.

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Keep up the boycott because McDonald's is big saw-wee.

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McDonald's has reached an agreement to buy back all 225 locations that they have in Israel.

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Those locations have been operated by a franchisee in the region who has been vocally supportive

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of the occupying army of Israel as they commit a genocide against the people of Gaza and Palestinians at large.

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They've been giving free food and donations and whatnot to the IDF,

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and people haven't been very happy about that, and they've been protesting McDonald's.

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And it's working. They are buying back from this franchisee all of these locations

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in the hopes that this is going to help at all.

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Little too little too late, y'all.

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But of course, uh, McDonald's business operations are not the primary news coming out of that region right now.

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There's been a lot of really horrible shit.

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In a recently published testimony from Israeli intelligence officials,

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they talked about an AI system that they've been using to determine who to kill in Gaza.

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Using a computer to figure out who they should kill next.

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That's normal. That's cool.

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Yep, they also talked about the complete willingness to just have a ton of civilian casualties

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that they were just fine with that. They vocally fine with that.

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Beyond that, of course, seven aid workers were recently actively targeted and murdered by the IDF,

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with multiple consecutive airstrikes targeting the known whereabouts of marked aid vehicles.

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They were literally working with Israel to coordinate their movements,

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and they were viciously attacked.

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And so this has put US officials in a bit of a bind.

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It's really difficult to do this many backflips at once.

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You gotta explain how this isn't a war crime, right?

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And it's, it's, they're having some trouble.

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If you are a creative writing student, this is a great opportunity.

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Because our leadership could seriously use your help in figuring out how to connect these plot points.

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As for the rest of us, we'll just have to continue to suspend disbelief.

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Hey, that's a nice record you got there, YouTube.

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It'd be a shame if someone shattered it, and it'd be a shame if it was Discord.

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Ha ha!

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Discord accidentally shattered YouTube's record for the most number of views in 24 hours on a single video.

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It was their April Fool's joke?

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They, they popped a video that said that they were adding loot boxes to Discord,

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which would be funny if it wasn't a thing that they might actually do eventually.

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But they popped up a video for everybody using Discord with their April Fool's gag,

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typical tech company April Fool's gag.

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But they didn't ever actually unload the video when you closed out of the pop-up,

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and it was also set to loop.

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So it was just silently looping in the background.

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And so everybody who was on Discord on April Fool's day was essentially bot netting YouTube,

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just silently adding to the view count of this video in the background, all day, constantly.

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And it's like an 18 second video or something like that.

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It racked up over a billion views in 24 hours,

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obliterating the previous record, which was held by, well, yours truly.

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Follow me on YouTube, and if you're watching this on YouTube,

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So congrats on your newfound success, Discord.

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You are, you're truly a YouTuber now.

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Maybe you can use this new clout to fix your mobile app.

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After you go for a hike, it's important to check for ticks.

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And it's also important to check for blue check marks.

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Sometimes they just latch onto you and you don't want that.

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It's not good.

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They carry a lot of diseases.

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If you recall, after Elon Musk accidentally purchased Twitter,

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one of the first things he did was make it to the blue check mark,

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just meant you're paying him a monthly subscription to use Twitter,

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and not you're an account that's noteworthy.

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This became an embarrassing symbol, because it just meant I'm an active Elon Musk stan.

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Please look at my check mark.

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It was so embarrassing that they actually rolled out the ability to hide the blue check mark,

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even if you paid for it.

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And now they've changed course.

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Twitter started to put blue check marks on notable accounts,

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accounts that had enough of a following of verified subscriber accounts.

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Doesn't matter.

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Point is, people started getting blue check marks again,

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against their will, and it caused panic.

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People are so against being seen as a person who likes Elon Musk

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that there was actual distress when they got a blue check mark.

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Hey.

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Get off Twitter.

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On the topic of Musk, the real quick bonus thing,

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Reuters published a really in-depth piece about how Tesla is pivoting their business strategy

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away from an affordable EV and towards robo-taxies.

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This move being in response to other companies catching up

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and making cheaper EVs more accessible and Tesla can't keep up,

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so they're trying to figure out what to do.

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And this made Musk all sad and angry.

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And so he just tweeted being like,

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Oh, we're going to make an announcement and Reuters is lying.

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He was like, yeah, no, yeah, maybe they published that article,

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but I'm just going to give a vague sense that we're going to make a big statement.

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And they're lying.

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Trust me.

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And also, of course, he posted that right after markets closed,

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but that's besides the point.

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Anyway, at this point, having a Tesla is like the physical real life version of a blue check mark.

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So I don't know, dog.

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In gaming news, Final Fantasy 14 is having their housing lottery,

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because even in the world of video games,

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we cannot escape the housing market in 2024.

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If you are a player of the critically acclaimed MMO with a free trial

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that includes the entirety of a realm reborn

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and the award-winning Heavenshorn expansion up to level 60 with no restrictions on playtime,

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you'll be able to put in your bid on an in-game house all throughout this month.

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And finally, live the dream of maybe having a house.

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You could be a digital homeowner.

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Completely different vibe.

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If you haven't heard the story around this game, potions a curious tale.

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Let me fill you in real quick.

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Renee Gittens, who is a TikToker and, well, just general internet person,

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has been building this game for like 10 years.

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And it's been a solo effort as far as I'm aware.

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She finally released it on Steam on International Women's Day this past month.

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And everything was looking good.

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But this is me.

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I'm EA right now.

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This is me being EA.

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And what EA did was they were like,

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hey, it's International Women's Day.

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Let's release like a dozen re-released games on Steam.

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Ha ha.

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So Renee released the game and then EA was like,

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we're gonna take a big old dookie over all the store.

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And they just buried her.

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This is of course heartbreaking and not very International Women's Day of them.

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So she went to TikTok and told her story, which went pretty dang viral.

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She got a bit more of the attention that she deserved,

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but I would say that the game still deserves more attention.

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So if you are interested at all in like cozy, approachable, fun games,

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and you like the theme of witchy potion stuff,

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which is all the way up my alley, check out Potions of Curious Tale.

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Not sponsored.

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I just like indie game developers.

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Lightning round.

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What the fuck?

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Massive shock.

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Trump is suing his co-founders of Truth Social

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right after they went public and then the stock crashed.

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OpenAI made a voice cloning tool thing that they claim works too well.

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Cool guys.

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Great. All right.

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While North America is having a total solar eclipse,

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Europe is working on making artificial solar eclipses.

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They're going to launch a space telescope thingy

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that can make its own solar eclipses so they can look at the corona of the sun.

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Not the beer.

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Bernie Sanders Vermont office was set ablaze.

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It's being investigated as arson.

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You know those Amazon like just walk out stores that you just like pick up items and walk out?

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And they claim that it was AI tracking you and putting together your cart for you.

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Well, one, those are going away.

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And two, turns out the AI was a thousand workers in India watching you on cameras.

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Artificial intelligence.

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Google killed their podcast app because it was an app made by Google.

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Two planes at Heathrow kind of bumped into each other on the runway.

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Just a little love tap.

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Just a little aerial love.

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And finally today, speaking of the air,

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the White House has asked journalists to stop stealing stuff from Air Force One.

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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,

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and further instruction on just how safe you should be when you're looking at the sun.

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I would greatly appreciate if you left a rating and review.

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It would very much help me out.

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Thank you so very much.

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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.