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Hello

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I shiftedthe balance
of the sun and the moon

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but Stuff still Happened.

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So what's up?

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I'm going to talk for a

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while about
polygraphs and what polygraphs are.

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Spoiler, it's not an
org chart for a polycule.

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The Department of
Homeland Security and the United

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States recently
announced that they're going

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to start doing a
polygraph lie detector test on

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everyone in the
agency to try to find who leaked

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information to the media.

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There were two planned

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raids by ICE in two
different cities that were

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leaked and they were
like, "Well, we don't like

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that. We don't like
it when people know where

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we're planning to try
to storm, define people, to

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round up human beings
and ship them elsewhere.

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I don't like that. I'm
the government and I don't like that.

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And so, yeah, they're systematically

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attempting to go
through and find leakers slash

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essentially create
an environment where it's

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too dangerous to be
a whistleblower. 

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You know,

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doing that thing
where you keep our government

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honest by alerting
your countrymen when there's a

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danger from within?

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But anyway, that's not...

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I'm going to talk
about polygraphs.

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Specifically,

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what are they? How
are they used? Are they

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allowed to be used this
way? Can the government do this?

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Can the private
sector do this? That's not very

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specific. I'm just
listing off all the questions.

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I guess what I'm
trying to say is, it's an

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interesting subject
and there's not a lot of

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info that is digestible.
So let's dig in.

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So first, let's start
with a fun little history

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factoid that I
learned during this research.

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The first attempt at
figuring out how to do lie

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detection that we
know of comes from China

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way, way, way back.
They believed with some actual

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evidence that there
is a link between lying and

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being stressed and a
link between being stressed

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and a dry mouth.

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And so they had a method where

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before they
questioned someone, they would say,

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"Hey, put this dry
rice in your mouth."

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Now answer our questions
with the rice in your mouth.

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After they were done, you'd
spit out the rice and if it

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wasn't wet enough,

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you're a fucking liar.

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Get out of here with your
dry-ass mouth.

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I don't wanna hear nothing from
that sandpaper tongue of yours.

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Anyway, we moved on
from rice in the mouth to

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the squiggly lines.
It's much better, except not,

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It was invented by
John A. Larson in 1921

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probably brother to Brie Larson,
if my timeline is correct

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It does a handful of things.

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It's called a polygraph because it

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graphs multiple
things about a person.

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It doesn't graph
how cute you are though.

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If it did, that
would be a constant 100.

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Uh,

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I'm in a weird headspace.
I don't know.

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Among things measured
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your pulse, blood
pressure, sweat gland activity,

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and any like muscle
tremors that you got going on.

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The idea is that
they track these things and

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they get like a
baseline and then they ask you

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questions and see
your physiological reactions

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to the questions to
determine if you're lying

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to me because you're a liar.

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Now if you ask the American 
Polygraph Association, they'll tell

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you that it has an
accuracy up to 95 percent,

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which sounds pretty
good until you remember that

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you just asked the
American Polygraph Association.

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Look, every hobby is valid,

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but that's just

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like, I can't think
of anything. Like that's

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boring. Come on, you guys.

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Yeah the American Polygraph
Association has a lot of reading

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material and
scientific studies that seem really

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good, all about how
great polygraphs are and not

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a lot of dissent. So
when I was researching this,

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that just covered the
vast majority of what I was

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finding when I was
trying to find non-biased

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information was the
biased information. So I dug

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a bit deeper and
found there are competing

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studies that are
outside of the influence of that

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association or really
any international polygraph

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association that puts
the efficacy rate closer to

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50 percent

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which is half, that's half of

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accurate. It's about a
coin flip. It's exactly a coin flip.

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accurate. It's about a
coin flip. It's exactly a coin flip.

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Now, what's the
actual number? We don't know.

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It's not a hard
science. It has a lot of flaws built

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into the system
from the person giving the

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test, having to
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the person taking the
test, having to not have an

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anxiety disorder.

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If you have an anxiety disorder,

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that might cause
you to be nervous and

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might either ruin the test
or show up as a false positive.

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And then
you've got potential bias in

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the interviewer. If
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and you don't like
the person, you might be a

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little biased to
interpret the results differently.

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Of course, people
who are skilled with a

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polygraph, which is a
really interesting sequence of words,

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they have worked
to try to push past this.

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They're trying to be
reputable. They're trying to do the

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best job they can
and give you that 95 percent

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accuracy number. But there's
really no way to be sure

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Because of this
uncertainty, polygraphs

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are often not
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civilian court. It
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court and in public
sector stuff in general.

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There is a law on
the books is called the, um,

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where did I put it?
Found it. It's the Employee

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Polygraph Protection
Act of 1988. I probably could

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have just probably could 
have just figured that one out myself.

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But basically, this law says, hey,

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employers cannot use
a polygraph to hire people

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or fire people
and cannot subject their

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employees to a polygraph
unless the employee agrees and

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maintains consent
throughout. This does not

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apply to the public
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CIA and FBI all
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a part of their
security clearance process.

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I have a computer
science degree and I went to

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school at a place where
a lot of defense contractors

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like to try to pluck
off new grads. So I had a

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lot of friends who were
getting security clearances.

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The number of times
I've told some random dude

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on the phone that
like my, my drunk friend from

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college probably
doesn't have any connections

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to the Chinese
government. It's off the charts,

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but I'm well
aware that a part of that, a

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very normal part of
that is a polygraph test,

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depending on your
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This is just standard. It's
just normal. It's a little

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weird. I don't know why
we're still doing it, but it is.

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So is lie detection complete bullshit?

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No, not necessarily. It
very well could be that a

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skilled polygraph
examiner is able to suss out

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most of the time
if something is a lie or

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not with most
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That's possible,

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but there's not a
guarantee.

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So at the end of the day, this is
legal. There's nothing really

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out of the ordinary
here. It's a bit weird how

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they're using a
polygraph to essentially just

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scare a bunch of
people en masse, but that's

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what government
organizations do when they want to

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seize control.

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I think the main takeaway here is

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that this current
administration, which claims to

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be a very transparent
administration, still has a

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lot of reasons to
keep the populace in the dark.

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They are very loud
and angry about leakers.

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And I've heard the
arguments saying, Oh, well,

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there's legal
channels to blow the whistle. They

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should have used
those methods. That was really

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popular when Edward
Snowden came out with his

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whistle blowing.
People were like, he shouldn't

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have done that. He
should have gone through

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the proper channels.
Now he's just made a mess.

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I would argue two
things. If the mess is primarily

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that the citizens are
upset because they found out

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the government is
spying on them. That's, that's

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not really his fault.

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And I'm not going to defend

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Edward Snowden and
every single thing he's

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ever done. But I will
say that a legal channel for

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whistle blowing is
not the best option if you're

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blowing the whistle on the
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It's the
same thing as like, Oh, I don't

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want to go to HR and
cause a stir because HR exists

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to protect the
company and so on and so forth.

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Recall that if
someone's blowing the whistle and,

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and taking that
big of a chance against the

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American government,
they're probably doing so

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because they can't
sleep at night with whatever

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information they've got.

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 Cool. Um, yep.

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We've got, we've got

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more things to talk
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POLICY

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A Fox News host, a
domestic abuser, an alcoholic, and

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the United States
secretary of defense walk into a

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bar. The bartender
says, hi, Pete Hegseth.

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Yep I woke up again today
and somehow Pete Hegseth is

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the secretary of
defense still,

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which is concerning.

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What's also
concerning is that he has reportedly

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ordered the
department of defense to cease all

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offensive cyber
operations against Russia.

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I want to say right here
that the Pentagon has denied

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this report.

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Believe who you want to believe,

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but let's just
entertain that this is true. And

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he is pulling back from
cyber operations against Russia

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Holy damn

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There are cyber attacks

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happening constantly
between major state actors.

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The big ones
would be the United States,

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Russia, China, and
North Korea...

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...and South Korea and

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Australia and the
UK and Japan...

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There's a lot of countries
doing a lot of cyber.

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They're all cybering

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But these
are state sponsored hacks.

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These are not your
average, Oh, just change your

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password and
protect your data

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I'm talking about targeted
attacks against

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infrastructure,
shutting down hospitals, taking

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entire energy systems offline.

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That is what cyber

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attacks are. It's not
stealing your datums

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Now, of course, the
DOD has defensive

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cyber operations as
well, but as the old adage

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goes, the best
defense is continuing to pay a

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bunch of trans femme
people in network security

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to go after hacker
groups in foreign countries.

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Yeah.

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Shout out to
the like 98% of network

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security infrastructure
engineers who are trans.

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We see you

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But for real, we, we have

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already been hit with
massive attacks. There's this

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huge attack
that's been ongoing with an

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investigation
going into it called the salt

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typhoon hacks, and
they've been targeting major

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infrastructure and
the Trump administration just

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dissolved the board
that was looking into it.

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So I don't know what's
going on with the US and their

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cyber command right
now, but they're seemingly

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just giving up or at
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But I am, I am sorry if you
are an international listener. This is,

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this is a very US
centric episode.

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Here's the thing: I like doing
foreign news coverage.

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I really, really enjoy
it, but my home country is

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on fire

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Literally!

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A lot!

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So anyway, uh, the United

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States is one week from 
the government shutting down, again!

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We really like doing this.

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We really like waiting till the
last possible second to pass

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a bill to keep the
government open because it lets

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the parties just
point fingers at each other. And

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that's just good for everyone.

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There have been a ton of government
shutdowns recently, ever since

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Reagan, who had eight
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of presidency. It's
just been a lot of them.

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And at the very least,
if we're not shutting down,

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we're getting down to
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The United States Congress has
to pass a budget. And if they

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don't, the
government doesn't get paid so they

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can't operate. Doing
this usually results in a much

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higher bill for taxpayers because the

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government being shut
down is deeply expensive.

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During Trump's first
presidency, we saw the longest

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government
shutdown in US history at over a

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month, 35 days. 

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And we're now careening towards

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another shutdown,
but this time the Republicans

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own all of the US
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So where we're at

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right now is the
Republicans have just drafted

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a bill that
contains a bunch of hard no's for

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Democrats. They know
that the Democrats are going

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to fight back
against this bill, but they also

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know that there's not
much time left to do anything.

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So if the
Democrats go after this bill, the

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Republicans get to
be like, ha, see, look,

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they want to shut
down the government. It's not

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our fault. Despite
being in power.

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There are also

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Republicans who
actively want to cause a shutdown

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because they believe
that the government bad. And

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so we shut the
government down and that's

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going to somehow be
good for everybody.

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And like...

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I get it

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but that's not how any kind

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of logic works.
And unfortunately for us,

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we are not senators. And so if the

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government shuts down,
we deal with that.

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Unlike them

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who still get paid.

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So I want to be clear:

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This is not a Democrat or
Republican thing necessarily.

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I mean, it's waivers
back and forth, but it's,

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it's always this.
It's always both parties trying

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to find a way to
frame the other party as the

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reason that the
government's about to shut the

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fuck down. And
y'all, this is the one thing

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that you have to do is
fund the government.

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I fully believe that if the
United States government

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shuts down, all sitting
members of Congress and Senate

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should be fucking
removed.

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If you cannot keep

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the government
open, then what are you doing

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collecting a paycheck
from the government that's closed?

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Anyway, um, moving on.

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Let's talk about Gaza

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and what might be
next for Gaza.

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So after Israel did the war
crimes that every country,

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except for the
United States and Israel agrees

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are war crimes, Gaza
is in a really bad way. It's

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essentially
unlivable right now. It is covered

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in rubble and
munitions. It needs external aid. If

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it's going to get back
on its feet, it's an entire

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population of people
who have been through some of

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the worst
conditions in recent memory.

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But there's a
plan. Egypt has proposed a plan

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to essentially
install an interim government of

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experts and
international peacekeepers who can

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oversee the
transition back to getting Gaza

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up and running.

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This plan has buy-in from local

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Arab leaders as well
as European leaders. It does

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not have buy-in from
the United States and Israel.

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The United States
has its own plan from Trump,

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who almost definitely
was told by Benjamin Netanyahu

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that if he supports
removing all of the Gazans

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from Gaza, then he can
have it. And so Trump keeps

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talking about how
he wants to take Gaza,

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demolish it and build
essentially a beach resort

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Because he's Trump. Of
course that's what he wants to do

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He wants to call
it the "Riviera of the Middle East"

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I'm shocked that he doesn't
want to call it Trump Town

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I have seen what
happens when Donald Trump

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has too much
influence over a municipality.

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It's called Atlantic
City and it's hell on earth.

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Anyway, the last
thing that I'll say about this

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is if you look at a
map, the US is not particularly

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close to Gaza. Gaza
also doesn't have a large

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contingent of United States
supporters living there

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And so some
common criticism of Trump's

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plan is that it sounds
a lot like ethnic cleansing

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and conquest.

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Maybe because of all the

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Ethnic cleansing and
conquest that it includes.

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Gaming

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Hell of a pivot.
I did not order this well

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Anyway....

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This past week we got confirmation

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that there's going to be
a Tony Hawk 3 and 4 remake

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We got the
Tony Hawk 1 and 2 remakes a

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few years ago and it
was fucking amazing. If this

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is anywhere near as
good as that, I am so hyped.

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I am a longtime fan of Anthony Hawk's

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professional skateboarder.

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Do you like a funny card game,

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but also want to
feel a lot of feelings?

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The developer of
Balatro, LocalThunk,

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recently posted a
bit of a timeline of the

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development of the
game that's got the good,

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the bad, the ugly, and
the amazing. It's genuinely

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a wonderful read,
especially if you're a creative

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type who has a lot
of experience in having a

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million projects
and not having a good time

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seeing all of them
through. Couldn't be me!

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But for real, it goes
into everything from why he was

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making the game to
begin with to what it was like

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to launch a game like
this and have a single day

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of your life completely
pivot everything that you know

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As well as the
struggles running into anxiety

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attacks and not
understanding them. It's a really

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great post. I highly
recommend it. It's linked in

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the newsletter. I
will also make sure that it's

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linked in whatever
show notes, description stuff.

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Lightning Round

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If you lost your sense of taste

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or smell from COVID,
there may be some hope. There

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is a new procedure
that has started in the UK

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that is showing some
pretty promising results.

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The Department of Justice

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in the US is going to
investigate companies that

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supply eggs, given
how high the prices of eggs

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are. I'm sure
there's just no other thing that

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we could be looking into

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Over 30 guards at a

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juvenile detention
facility in California have

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been charged with
staging gladiator-style

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fights among the
kids who are in prison there.

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Tucker Carlson
interviewed Sam Bankman-Fried,

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the guy who was at
the center of the whole FTX

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crypto implosion.
That guy is being locked up in

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a prison that actually
also holds Diddy. So he did

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the interview with
Tucker Carlson and during the

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interview called Diddy
a nice guy, but now he's in

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solitary
confinement because it was not an

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approved
interview. It was seemingly just a

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publicity stunt to
try to get Trump to pardon

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him. I don't know.
Weird play dawg.

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Some guy in Florida

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swallowed $770,000
worth of jewelry that he stole

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He was trying
to hide the evidence from

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the cops as he was
being arrested and he was just

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like, "Oh!" They
x-rayed him and found it

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He also was heard saying, "I
should have just thrown them

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out the window."
Like, my guy.

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I should probably

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mention this guy
has like dozens of warrants

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in like multiple
states. I don't know, man.

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Try a different line of work.

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A SpaceX test launch

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exploded and it
made debris fall all over the

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Gulf of Mexico.

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And finally for today, Stonehenge's

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archaeological cousin might
actually be older than Stonehenge

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There's a prehistoric
monument in the

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UK called Flagstones
and recent research shows

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that it might
actually be older than Stonehenge,

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which might also
mean that it could be the

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blueprint that was
used for Stonehenge or like

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the first try. 

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We don't know for sure. There's a

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lot more work to do
here based on that. They now

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need to double check
the age of Stonehenge and

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figure out what's
really going on here. But yo,

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history is zagging on us.

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Hi, hello, jump scare

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Merch.

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Couple of things that I
wanted to include in this episode

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that happened like while
I was recording slash producing,

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so here we go.

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The first is Canada
has a new prime minister.

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They've replaced
Justin Trudeau with Mark Carney,

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who used to be their big bank boy.

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He ran their central bank,

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and he's got some
fighting words for Trump.

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He was like, Canada
is not up for grabs, stop it.

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It's the same party that Trudeau was,

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so don't expect a seismic shift.

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The second thing
is that federal ICE agents

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have arrested a Palestinian
protester at Columbia University.

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His name is Mahmed Khalil,

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and he was
involved in some of the protests

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at Columbia
University that were pro-Palestine.

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He is here on a green
card, married to a US citizen

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who is eight months
pregnant, and ICE has abducted him,

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and we don't really know where he is.

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He is here legally.

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They had no reason to arrest him.

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He has his papers.

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He's here legally, but Marco Rubio,

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the Secretary of State, is now saying

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that the US will
start revoking green cards

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of people they don't like,

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so if you use your right to free speech

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to protest something that
the US government disagrees with,

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they are now
signaling that it doesn't matter.

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Even if you're here legally,

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they'll do paperwork
to make it so that they can

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hold you hostage somewhere

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while your eight months pregnant wife

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tries to figure out where you are,

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so reminder,

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ICE are the Nazis.

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This is the government
sending in federal agents

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to abduct people

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not even just "illegals,"

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which are, reminder, it's not illegal

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to be here as an undocumented citizen.

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It's not illegal.

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It is a civil offense.

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That's it.

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All right, bye.

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Thank you so much for

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listening to today's episode of Stuff

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Keeps Happening.
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bonus content, and
my schematics for how I

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built Stonehenge.
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I'll be back on
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