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Hello, I summited the mountain of hopes and dreams.

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But stuff still happened.

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So what's up?

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It is more than just the boar's head.

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After a nationwide Listeria outbreak that sparked from a boar's head facility in Virginia,

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they're being investigated for why that happened.

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For those unfamiliar, boar's head is a meat processing company.

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They package like deli meats and ham and whatnot.

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Recently, they recalled seven million pounds of their meat.

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Cuz of the Listeria, not actually funny.

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So anyway, the USDA was like, hey, y'all, why did that happen?

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We're going to investigate your facility.

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Holy damn USDA guy walked in.

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He's like, is that blood?

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Why is this wall covered in meat?

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This is not a joke.

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There were walls covered in meat, like meat residue with like flies and gnats and swarming infestations.

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And just blood.

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Who's blood? Animal blood?

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I don't know. It's blood.

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Pools of blood just kind of on the ground.

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Also mold leaks, basically just egregiously unsanitary.

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You know, the kind of conditions that lead to a meat packaging facility causing a Listeria outbreak.

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At time of writing, nine people have died already from this outbreak.

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And hopefully that number doesn't go up too, too much.

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The Virginia facility has been shut down and the head of boar's head said that they're not going to

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reopen it until it meets the USDA standards, which is confusing because it was previously operating,

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not meeting the standards.

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But what do I know?

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Maybe every manager at the facility and, you know, just every executive on the chain all the way up

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this massive corporation had no idea this was happening.

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None the wiser.

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They were just taking a nap, a big collective nap.

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And they're like, oh, oh, there's bad conditions in our facility.

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Hmm.

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Dave, did you know?

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Fucking Dave is Dave's fault.

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Hey, USDA.

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Fuck Dave.

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The feds are pulling a salty run back after the United States Supreme Court decided that the U.S.

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President has quote absolute immunity with official business.

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Jack Smith, the special counsel who's been going after Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election,

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has filed a new indictment that is saying, come at me, bro.

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This indictment narrows the scope quite a bit and gets rid of some of the parts that the Supreme

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Court were like, nah, that's official business.

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The president can't be prosecuted for that official business like trying to use the justice

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department to overthrow an election.

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I'm not making that that's the part that was removed from the indictment.

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They removed the part where he tried to enlist the Justice Department to do his bidding to overturn

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an election.

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That little thing, you know, instead, they've narrowed the scope down to focus more on the scheme

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with him and his allies in various states where they're going to send fake electors to claim

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that he won those states.

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If you live in a normal country with normal elections, here's a quick rundown of what the

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fuck that means.

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In America, we have the Electoral College, which is this system where it basically encodes

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inequality in votes.

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Each state has a number of points associated with them.

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And if you win the popular vote in a given state, you get all of that state's points

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with a few exceptions.

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Logistically, this looks like the state sending specific delegates to Congress who say we,

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you got our points.

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And Trump was trying to come up with his own delegates to be like, nah, we got it's our

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points, not their points.

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Now, ostensibly, the Electoral College is supposed to help elections remain fair for

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each individual state in the union.

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But in reality, it just means that someone from like Idaho has three times the votes

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of somebody from California.

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Because we got to make sure that we don't have tyranny of the majority when that majority

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is 80% and the minority is the one that's been in control of the country like this whole

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time.

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Koff Koff, Kentucky's senator, is basically the one responsible for virtually every negative

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thing in our country since I was born.

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I don't live in Kentucky.

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Weird.

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Anyway, is this new indictment going to do anything at all?

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Probably not.

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Trump has already been found guilty of 34 felonies and that didn't really do anything.

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Like, yeah, he's going to get sentenced, but he's not.

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He's not, he's not going to jail, y'all.

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And he's already voted.

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Like, yay, privilege.

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All that his felony convictions like really did was just make his base angrier.

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I don't think this is going to do anything.

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Is it an injustice?

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Yes.

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Is it a thing that we should probably just move on from and let the man die?

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Also, yes.

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Like to be clear, I avoid talking about Trump.

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I avoid covering the things that he's doing because it's been a decade of this.

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The man is closer to death than he is reality and it's just not worth it most of the time to

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keep you up to date on what he's up to.

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But in this case, it is the the Fed going after him again, despite the absurd partisan Supreme

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Court ruling stating that the US president has absolute immunity.

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Therefore is above the law.

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Wild.

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What?

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All right.

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Uh, all right.

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All right.

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Let's talk about Dungeons and Dragons disclaimer.

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I am building a tabletop role playing game and so neat dunking on Dungeons and Dragons is kind

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of self serving.

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Wizards of the Coast who makes Dungeons and Dragons is a subsidiary of Hasbro.

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Hasbro is a large company and they want money and they haven't been doing a good job of being

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sneaky about it.

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Here's the thing about people who play D&D.

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They are inquisitive and they do a lot of mental math.

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And so when Wizards was like, Hey, we've got a new rule book and it costs money and you're also

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more rule books and those are going to cost money too.

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They weren't happy.

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Fuck.

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I fell.

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That wasn't a bit.

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All right.

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Backing up.

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Recently, Wizards of the Coast announced a new players handbook like the core game rule book

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that is updated, but not a new game.

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It's like a revision of the decade old system, but it's it just updates the existing stuff and

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replaces it, which means if you have the original handbook, like you can use it and they said you

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can use it, but their focus is on the new stuff basically saying, Hey, you know that thing that

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you've already invested in for all the materials and whatnot?

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Well, those materials are outdated now.

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You want a new book?

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Do you?

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Where's your wallet?

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They then went on to be like, also, we're going to pull an MCU and release like a whole bunch of

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other books, each one individually, each one's going to cost you.

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So if you want to stay up to date on playing the game that you've already invested like a decade

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into your best pay up, bud, and they're not doing a whole lot to win back good graces, for example,

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on their own companion app, they're making it so that the older versions of stuff gone,

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like you can access them and read about them, but you can't use them in your character sheet.

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So it's very much like a, you're a second class citizen now by our book again.

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It's the equivalent of a game releasing a DLC, but actually releasing like eight DLCs.

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And you got to buy each one if you want to actually stay competitive in the game.

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And they're like, no, everybody can play.

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You don't have to get the DLC, but we all, we know with that.

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So people aren't super happy.

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There's a lot of goodwill that players give towards D&D.

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It's this massive media empire at this point.

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And it seems like at every turn, Wizards is just trying to squeeze as much money as they can.

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That's because they are, because they're a company.

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That's what they do.

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If you like D&D, keep playing D&D.

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That's fine.

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I would just recommend that you also look into other systems.

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There's a whole lot of systems that focus on more granular niches.

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And there's also a lot of free ones out there.

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Maybe take a look at the like TTRPG section on itch.io.

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You're welcome.

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Hey you, who can hear or see me?

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I have a surprise for you.

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Maybe if you didn't know about it, it's a surprise.

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If you're not aware, I have a section on my website that is dedicated to a collection

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of guides that I've written to help people get started with content creation.

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It's called Creator Resources and you can find it if you head to my website, endeavorence.camp

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and you scroll down to the bottom.

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There's a button, a big old button says Creator Resources.

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There's information on my equipment, my process, how I go about doing things.

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And it's all free.

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It's right there.

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I try to write them to be clear and concise and respectful of your intelligence and time.

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The only, the only thing is that the links are affiliate links where possible.

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So if you see something that you like and you do end up purchasing it,

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buying it through one of those links would help me out.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Lightning round.

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Australia is the latest country to enact a right to disconnect law.

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So workers in Australia now have legal protections against bosses retaliating against them

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for not checking their email at night outside of working hours.

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Officials in Texas are concerned about economic downturn

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because there's been an uptick in sausage purchases.

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Apparently since sausage is cheaper, increase in sausage desire

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is associated with economic downturn, increase in sausage desire.

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Ha!

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Surprising absolutely nobody.

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There was an outbreak of COVID-19 at the DNC.

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After being arrested in France, the CEO of Messaging App Telegram is being charged with

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being involved in distribution of child pornography and money laundering scheme.

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Turns out you can kind of just like, peel a Cybertruck window open?

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A dude posted a video online of a burglar going up to his car

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trying to break the window and it just like shatters but not like breaking?

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And then they just pulled the window back.

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Like it just unfolded.

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If it doesn't have the actual integrity of the glass, it's just a door.

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A deadly mosquito-borne illness has cropped up for the first time in a decade in New Hampshire.

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Eastern equine encephalitis, EEE, it's fairly deadly.

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It's mosquito-borne.

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They're now spraying for mosquitoes and whatnot.

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Put on bug spray.

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It's very, very rare.

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I wouldn't freak out.

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Put on bug spray.

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Israel has killed at least 10 innocent Palestinians as they have started new

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operations in the West Bank.

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The West Bank, which is not Gaza, also has hospitals that Israel is threatening to storm.

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All the name of rooting out terrorism.

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That's a hosp where the Red Cross is.

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Brazil has blocked Twitter after a judge has been beefing with Musk,

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who is not complying with local laws.

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Musk is responding exactly as you would expect,

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throwing a shit fit and being real upset that a country is not just immediately capitulating to all

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of his demand, you know, like how the free market works.

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And finally for today, there was a rescued bald eagle in Missouri that people were concerned about

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because it wasn't able to fly.

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They thought it might be injured or sick.

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Turns out it ate a whole raccoon.

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Chopped?

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Just kind of slurp?

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And it couldn't fly because it was full of raccoon.

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Too heavy.

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Talk about itis.

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

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Head to skh.news for sources, bonus content, and your own rescued bald eagle filled with a raccoon.

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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.