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Hello. I went up against a Sicilian when death was on the line.

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But stuff still happened.

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So what's up?

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Uh, author's note.

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I'm not going to talk about the Trump assassination attempt.

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Cool. Turns out a lot of people hate AI, specifically when it's being used for customer service.

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I mean, a lot of other things, too.

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A recent survey of nearly 6,000 consumers found that 64 percent

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would prefer that companies don't use AI for customer service.

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It also found that 53 percent would consider switching to a competitor

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if they found out that a given company was using AI for their customer service.

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Concerns about this ranged from like, AI is going to give me the wrong answers

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to my data is almost definitely going to be compromised.

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That's the great thing about AI is that there's so many bad things about it.

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Take your pick.

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It's a really wonderful sort of choose your own adventure.

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The survey was conducted by Gartner, which is a like research firm

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that sells research to executives.

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So hopefully they listen, but if they won't listen to consumer research,

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because why would they?

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Maybe they'll listen to an obscenely rich investment firm

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because Goldman Sachs just recently released a paper that talks about how AI is deeply mid.

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The paper basically makes the case that like,

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there's not really enough here to merit the billions upon billions of dollars

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that we're investing into this space.

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This being we being the the royal we wait, is that the right use of that?

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Whatever.

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The we being people with a lot of money who are dumping way too much money

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into products that are not all that good.

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Like even the products that are kind of okay are really just like kind of okay

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at doing a very specific thing like it hasn't revolutionized life, you know?

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But this is from the perspective of an investment firm.

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So they're saying, hey, there's a lot of money and not a lot of products.

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They're basically saying, y'all, this is a bubble.

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Calm down.

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Anyway, in addition to all of that, one last quick AI thing is three US senators

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just proposed the copied act because every bill has to has to be a backernum.

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But the copied act in theory would add protections for like writers and artists

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and whatnot in not having their stuff be stolen and used to train AI's.

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Weird.

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I thought we had something for that already.

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It's called like, I don't know, duplicate left or something.

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I don't know what it was called.

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This is my impersonation of Boeing.

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Oopsy doopsy, we did a whoopsy.

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Boeing has pled guilty to criminal fraud conspiracy.

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Just gonna say that again just for the fun of it.

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Boeing has pled guilty to criminal fraud conspiracy.

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Now, don't get too excited because they're getting a slap on their wrist.

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They pled guilty in a plea deal and they're being charged about $244 million,

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which is like eight cents to them.

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Families of people who died on various Boeing aircraft that were rushed to market

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with no safety standards, apparently, they're not happy with this.

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They're saying this was a sweetheart deal because Boeing is too big to fail.

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That was fun.

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That was a fun little sound I just made.

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The victims families were hoping for a criminal trial because if there was a criminal trial,

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Boeing would have had their name dragged through the mud.

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More.

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They would have had to go up on the bench and sit next to a judge and be like, yeah.

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Yeah, I mean, we did do it.

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We did do a fraud a little bit, but like we do make good bombs.

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So yeah, reminder, if you're like not really tuned into like the military contractor world,

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Boeing is a massive military contractor.

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They make bombs.

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Apparently they're a little bit confused about like when things go in the air,

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which ones are supposed to fall down and explode and which ones are supposed to gracefully land.

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I want to make something really clear.

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I am a red-blooded trident favoring citizen of Earth just like you.

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But Poseidon's about to take a big L.

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Back in May, a large statue of Poseidon appeared in the Gulf of Mexico, like on a beach,

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not like in the middle of the ocean.

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That would be sick.

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But it appeared like in the waves on the beach.

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Is there a term for where the water comes?

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Is that just beach?

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Anyway, it's a pretty rad statue.

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I will say.

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However, that's a Greek god.

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Greek is not Mexico.

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This is a good episode, dear god.

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Yeah, Poseidon does not have a connection to Mexico.

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I don't know why it's there and not to be the locals because local indigenous groups are like,

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hey, why is Poseidon here?

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We have our own gods.

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And so I want to talk to you about Chak.

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The Mayan god of rain, thunder and lightning.

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Chak is about to take Poseidon into the ring.

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And it's not even going to be one round, y'all.

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Let me tell you about this guy.

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He has jade axes that he throws at rain snakes in the sky.

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And that's how rain happened.

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Although also sometimes his axes are lightning axes.

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And sometimes he has snakes and throws snakes at the clouds.

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It's a little unclear, but there's axes, jade, snakes and lightning all in play.

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And again, I like Trident.

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Look, I have a mini Trident right here.

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I'm a Tridentor boy all the way through and through, but I don't know about this one.

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Poseidon take the L, my guy.

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Anyway, the statue is being removed because they didn't get permits for it.

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And also because indigenous groups are like, hey, this is like actually offensive,

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but also like they didn't get the permits for it.

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And also also it's probably going to mess up the local ecosystem.

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Don't like art installations are cool and all.

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Also be thoughtful about nature.

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You got it.

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I want to talk to you about vaginas.

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Now this past week I've seen a whole bunch of videos from women and trans men and non-binary folks all talking about this story.

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But I feel like I need to talk about it too so that you can have the perspective of a cis white guy.

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And I think it's critically important that I am heard.

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That never happens.

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Yeah, so tampons have lead in them.

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Researchers tested 14 different popular brands of tampons for 16 different metals that you don't really want to have in a tampon.

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And they found all 16 metals among them.

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And they found lead in every brand they tested.

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Notably, there is no acceptable exposure level for lead and there certainly isn't a level of acceptable exposure for lead in the kuchi.

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Now vaginas, I love them.

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You love them.

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They're a portal to the babyverse.

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I didn't pay attention in sex ed, but they're pretty great and vaginal tissue is pretty absorptive and absorptive.

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It absorbs.

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And if it absorbs lead, that's just going to go right into the bloodstream.

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That's not great.

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I'll give you a note here.

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It's a bullet point.

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It says lead should not go in blood.

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So while I have not personally menstruated yet, I can definitely say that if I was menstruating, I would, I mean, I would be basically a second class citizen.

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So, I mean, yeah.

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But hey, maybe it's time to look into using a menstrual cup because of the lead.

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Anyway, hey, people who look like me, women are criminally understudied in general health care science, like lead in tampons level of understudy.

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Women go into an auto mechanic and they like try to swindle women specifically more than men.

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Think of that, but you have cancer.

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Like that's not great.

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I would actually go as far as to say that kind of sucks.

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Gaming.

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Summer Games Unquick happened.

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And if you're not familiar, that is a speed running expo that raises money for doctors without borders.

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This year they raised two and a half million dollars.

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I love nerds.

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The developer of city of skylines two has delayed the console release indefinitely.

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Despite there not being plans, there's no concrete plans.

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The head of Sonic team is wondering why there hasn't been a Sonic RPG yet.

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How fast do you want to go?

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The choice is up to you.

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They are making a Planet Coaster 2 and it's going to have multiplayer theme park building.

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Let's get spirally.

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The developers of Pow World have joined forces with Sony to make a new subsidiary that may ultimately produce a Pow World anime.

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So if you were wondering what world we live in, that is that we live in the Pow one.

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Apparently.

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Side note, I did not play Pow World.

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Are people still playing Pow World?

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That's not a dig.

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I'm sure you're having fun.

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If you play it, I just it was everywhere.

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I haven't heard of it until this story.

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So I don't know.

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Lightning round.

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You could be the proud owner of the two pistols that Napoleon Bonaparte planned to kill himself with.

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They're for sale.

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They're for auction.

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Canada has a national crisis of car thefts.

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Analyzing data from 2022 has shown that there was a car theft about on average once every five seconds.

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Spotify is adding comments to podcasts.

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Why?

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Tesla is reaching out to Cybertruck owners and offering to upgrade their motors.

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After suddenly a whole bunch of motor complaints have been rolling in.

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Basically, all of Houston, Texas right now is still without power after being hammered by massive storms.

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This is not going to get better anytime soon.

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But this is good.

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Rudy Giuliani was trying to file for bankruptcy to get out of having to pay punitive damages to people from a different court case from him doing all the election fraud stuff.

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Anyway, that just got thrown out.

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The judge was like, you, you are messing around too much.

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You're not filing.

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Get out of here.

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And speaking of court cases getting thrown out, Alec Baldwin is no longer in a court case for the shooting thing that happened on the set of the movie that he was on.

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That court case has been finally dropped.

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And finally for today, ripped to a real one, I guess, Richard Simmons passed away recently at the age of 76.

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

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And SKH.News for sources, bonus content and high definition footage of the battle between Chuck and Poseidon.

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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.

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Hey, it's the post show Endeavorance.

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How's it going?

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I hope that you're doing very well.

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I am.

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Dang.

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I'll have to double check.

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Be well.