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Hello

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I ordered the special exactly
as it comes,

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But Stuff still Happened.

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So what's up?

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Dear listener,

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I— scheduling

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Scheduling announcement.

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This is gonna be the last episode of

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Stuff Keeps Happening

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until May 5th.

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I'm gonna be taking a

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bit of an overdue vacation.

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I'll be around, but as for this series,

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this will be back in May.

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Let's go.

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First up, I mean, it's

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gonna be the tariffs.

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Last week, Donald Trump put

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a massive amount of tariffs

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on basically every country in the world,

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including uninhabited ones.

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That's not a joke.

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Like he's, he put tariffs on penguins.

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The tariffs were far too aggressive,

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despite him saying that this

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was him going easy on them,

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and seemed to have been calculated

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by just completely misinterpreting

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how macroeconomics works.

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Like confusing trade

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deficit with like trade policy.

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It's okay to have a trade deficit.

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That doesn't mean a,

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that's not a bad thing.

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A trade deficit just

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means you're buying more

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than you're selling.

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It does, that's all.

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There are going to be countries

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in which we buy more than we sell.

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That's just how it is.

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Anyway, so the tariffs are bad.

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Who would have thought?

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If only anyone said anything

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about this ever.

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Dear God.

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Anyway, yeah, he put up the

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tariffs and the stock market.

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*sad stock market sounds*

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It went, "Woo-wee-wee!"

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It was just kind of like, "Ah!"

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It's really bad.

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That's, those are my stock sounds again,

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and we're back to the stock sounds.

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To put it in numerical terms,

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bad.

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In the first half day of trading

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after the tariffs went live,

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we went back a year in the stock market.

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A year worth of gains wiped out,

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purely because Donald

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Trump, a half dead con man,

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doesn't understand

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how tariffs work still.

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And no one was willing

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to tell him to stop this.

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This is a massive own goal.

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And the entire world is laughing at us

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and trying to figure out

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how to not deal with us

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moving forward, which is not good.

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It's not like, "Ah-ha-ha!"

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Now they're gonna have

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to be self-sufficient.

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It's a, "Oh, fuck,

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Everything is gonna cost way more money."

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It's estimated that the

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average American household

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is gonna be spending

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thousands of dollars more per year,

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like cars, electronics, food, everything.

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Raw materials,

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everything's gonna be more expensive.

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It's wild.

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Just a few weeks ago, people on the right

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were talking about

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how they were expecting

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to get checks from the government

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because of how much

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money Doge was saving.

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They thought the government

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was gonna cut people checks,

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like another round of stimulus checks,

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thousands of dollars per citizen somehow.

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And just a few weeks later, now it's,

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and you're gonna be paying thousands of

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dollars more a year.

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Deal with it.

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I wish I could give analysis and

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thoughtful discussion

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and let's try to

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understand this and see where we go.

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That's just not possible here.

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These tariffs are just dumb.

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No one wanted this.

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No one was ready for it.

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We are not ready as a country

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to bring back manufacturing.

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And you don't bring back manufacturing

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by cutting off access

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to all supply lines.

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Like I can see how a moron would think

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that that would bring back manufacturing

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because they aren't

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considering the broader picture,

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which now makes a lot of

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sense given the president.

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And China, Japan, and South

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Korea are working together,

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which is whack.

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Trade policy's so bad

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that China, South Korea,

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and Japan are working together.

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Yee-haw.

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Anyway, if you're pissed,

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you can have gone to a

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protest over the weekend.

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Let's talk about those.

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Protests broke out across

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the United States en masse

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at 1,300 plus locations to

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the tune of millions of people.

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The protests were largely peaceful.

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There have not really been any reports

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of any kind of like

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widespread violence or retaliation

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from cops or counter protesters.

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And largely just a

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lot of people showed up.

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There were about 500,000 RSVPs

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across all of the different events.

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And organizers are saying

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that they far exceeded that

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to the tune of like

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an order of magnitude.

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would be 5,000 people

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who RSVP'd for an event

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and 100,000 showed up.

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So that happening across 1,300 locations,

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we don't have the tally yet,

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but it's pretty significant.

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Some estimations put it at close to 1%

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of the US population having been out

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protesting this weekend.

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That is gargantuan.

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I know 1% doesn't sound

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like a lot, but that is a lot.

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My favorite take from

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all of this have been

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the people who are

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not for these protests,

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trying to downplay them, being like,

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well, whatever, it's not that impressive.

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But truly the cream of the crop.

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Are the people being like,

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don't these people have jobs?

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On a Saturday.

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You did good, buddy.

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You tried.

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The other thing I wanna

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note about these protests

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was that there is a very high percentage

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of older white people,

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older, really 30 plus.

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Older meaning not Gen Z.

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Y'all show up for shit.

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But there was a lot

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of discourse beforehand

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among black and other

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minority communities,

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talking about essentially leave this one

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to the white people because one,

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protesting as a

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minority in the US right now

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is life-threatening and two,

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white people did this to us.

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Like we have Donald Trump

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because of white people.

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Black people almost

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exclusively voted for Harris.

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And so they're like,

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yeah, no, y'all got this one.

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Which is fair because black people,

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especially black

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women are usually the ones

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carrying us over the finish line.

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They deserve a break.

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But let's keep talking protests

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because I wanna highlight

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a very big protest going on

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that's not in the US.

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Now I wanna preface this by saying

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I had actually written a half draft.

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This was going to be a main

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story from a few weeks back.

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But then something

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else caught my attention.

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I don't even remember.

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Point being this big.

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Because there are massive

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record-breaking protests in Serbia

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as they are pushing back

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against their authoritarian government.

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This actually started

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back in November of 2024.

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And it started with a roof collapsing.

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And now they might

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overthrow their government.

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Like that's the dominoes here.

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So back in November,

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a roof at a railway

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station in Serbia collapsed

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and killed 15 people.

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right after construction

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to renovate the station had completed.

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The renovation was

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slow and behind schedule

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and indicative of basically everything

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that's been going on

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with their government recently,

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just not being good for the people.

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And so what was a construction mishap,

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if you wanna call it that,

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has turned into a

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massive countrywide protest

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against an authoritarian regime

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that is not working for the people.

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After the collapse,

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there was an investigation

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and basically nobody

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was held accountable.

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And people were like, fuck

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it, we're done with this shit.

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And so as with many protests,

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it began with students

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blocking access to their campuses.

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And that has evolved

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into the largest protests

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that the country has ever seen.

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Just last month,

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there was a single protest

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that had 300,000 people

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taking to the streets,

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which broke the record

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for their country's history.

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And to this day, there

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are still ongoing protests.

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Unfortunately, it's kind

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of a stalemate right now.

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The government hasn't really budged

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and the protests haven't

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really made a lot of progress

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aside from getting

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people out to protest more.

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And so we're just in this holding pattern

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until one side breaks.

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We'll see, but pretty

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much where we're at right now

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is both sides are just waiting for a win.

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Keep at it, people.

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Never give up, trust your instincts.

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A wise man told me that.

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A wise...

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Moving on, gaming.

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All right, Switch 2,

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let's talk about Switch 2.

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It's like a Switch, but

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they made another one.

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Nintendo did their big

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reveal of the Switch 2

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and it made a lot of people happy

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and a lot of people big mad.

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Gamers, let's talk real quick.

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Come over here.

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All right, gamers, it's

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just me and you, all right?

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What's up, gamer?

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Gamers, can we calm down?

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Just a smidge.

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I understand that

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there's a lot to be upset about

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in the world and in the gaming industry,

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but can we calm down just a scooch?

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We were less than 24 hours out

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from the Switch 2 announcement

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when people were already

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coming into my comments

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from last week's video in

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which I simply mentioned

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that Switch 2 pre-orders were going to go

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in effect in April.

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And I already got

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people in my comments saying,

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"The Switch 2 is ass and it's terrible.

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Don't buy a Switch 2!"

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Y'all...

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It's a consumer electronic.

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You don't need to pick a tribe.

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You don't need to have a camp.

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I'm genuinely shocked that

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we're still doing console wars,

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I guess is where I'm at,

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but let's get to the Switch stuff.

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The Nintendo Switch 2 is going to be

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priced at 450 bucks.

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What you get with that is a new device.

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It's got a bigger screen, a

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1080p LCD screen, not OLED.

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It's not an OLED screen,

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which is one of the reasons

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that the gamers are Big Mad.

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It will support up to

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120 FPS in handheld mode,

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which is wild and I did not expect that,

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and up to 4K 60 FPS

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output in docked mode.

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The dock now has a fan in it

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to help cool the device down

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so it can do more stable performance.

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I will note that they

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do say 4K 60 FPS output

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in compatible games,

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waiting to see what that means.

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Aside from that, the

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Joy-Cons connect magnetically now

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instead of that

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chunky, chunky, chunky thing,

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which fun story, the

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first thing that happened

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with my Switch was somebody took it

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and put the Joy-Con on backwards

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and I thought they broke it.

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That was like day one,

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the day the Switch came out.

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They made the kickstand better.

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It's got more internal storage.

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They're adding like a video chat thing

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that runs like two frames per second.

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Doesn't look all that

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great, to be honest.

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Other than that, like it's

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honestly just a updated Switch.

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Like it's just, it's a, personally,

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I just one day Switch

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that could do 4K output

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and run games a bit more smoothly.

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That's literally it.

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Am I giving Nintendo a pass?

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Never, fuck Nintendo.

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They're extremely consumer hostile

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and extraordinarily litigious.

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Nintendo is not a good company,

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but they do make it a good video, Jane.

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But the thing that

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has people very big mad

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about the Nintendo Switch 2,

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is that the games will

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cost anywhere between like 60

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and $90.

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Specifically with an

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upcharge on physical media,

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as they're trying to push

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more towards digital media.

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There's new digital

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media sharing options,

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but like it sucks and it

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shouldn't be going this way.

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And I agree.

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But to be mad about $90 games in 2025

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is to ignore the fact

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that games have been $60

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since like 2005 and

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nothing stays at the same price

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for 20 years, except for

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like the Costco hot dog.

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And the only reason

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that price hasn't changed

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is because the Costco CEO

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has threatened to murder you

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if you change it.

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So yeah, that's a real story by the way.

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Anyway, two more quick

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things about the Switch too.

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It will also be backwards compatible.

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Three more things.

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It'll be backwards compatible.

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They brought back

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fucking DS download play.

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If you remember that,

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there's gonna be

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support for having a game

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and people can like

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download the game temporarily

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to their console to play with you.

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And that's gonna work on

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Switch one too, which is rad.

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But also, also we're

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coming back to the tariffs.

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Nintendo announced that Switch pre-orders

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would start April 9th.

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And then Trump was like,

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"We're gonna do the tariff at you."

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And then Nintendo was like, "Oh, sike."

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So at least in the US, Switch two

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pre-orders are on hold.

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First, they came for the

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gamers and I said nothing

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because I was a scrub.

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Second thing for gaming, and

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this is a kind of short note,

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but they're making Tony

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Hawk Pro Skater 3 plus 4s,

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like they're the combo game

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after they did one and

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two earlier and it was good.

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They've been announcing the

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soundtrack for these games

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and people got a little spooked

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because it wasn't the exact same

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soundtrack as the original.

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It eventually came out

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that Tony Hawk himself,

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Mr. Anthony Hawk is

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apparently having a bit of a role

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in choosing the soundtrack for this game.

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And he's like, "Look, y'all, you can

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experience new music.

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It's gonna be okay."

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He picked a few new

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songs from the soundtrack

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from existing artists

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from the original games.

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He was like, "Just

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like, listen to more stuff.

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Try something new."

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And then he had to assure people

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that there would be

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more of the original tracks

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coming soon in further reveals.

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Like calm down.

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Just kind of gonna

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point back to the section

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earlier in this video where I was like,

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hey gamers, can we come here a second

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and just chill momentarily?

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Technology, really

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medical science, I should say.

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How about your brain?

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Does your brain like to talk?

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You've likely heard of Neuralink,

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00:12:12,198 --> 00:12:14,433
Elon Musk's like brain implant company

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that killed a bunch of monkeys.

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There have been a bunch

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of other research firms

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that have been doing brain

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computer interface research

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for quite a while.

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And there was a massive step forward

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in that research recently.

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Researchers were able to get

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a chip into a person's brain

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that was able to

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synthesize speech from thought

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in about three seconds.

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This is a big deal because a

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lot of these chips right now

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require you to think

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through like an entire sentence

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that it then has to work on

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and figure out what you wanted to say.

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And then it spits out what

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it thinks you wanted to say.

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This new chip can almost

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real time speak for you

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by just reading your thoughts.

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So with basically a three second delay,

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it can read what you're thinking,

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synthesize it into speech

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that sounds like your

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original voice and put it out there.

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And so this is an amazing step forward

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for people with complete

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paralysis and locked in syndrome,

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anything that prevents you from being

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able to communicate.

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It also means that we're one step closer

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to being able to airdrop

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memes to each other's brains

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by just thinking,

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which is either going to

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be the best or worst thing

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to ever happen.

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Over on Twitter, it's bad.

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The EU may hit Twitter with

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up to a billion dollar fine

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for breaking their digital services act

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by fucking with how

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like the check mark works.

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If you recall the blue

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check on Twitter used to mean

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this is a verified profile

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of somebody who is notable.

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It now just means this

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person's paying for Twitter.

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It caused massive

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confusion when people just started

532
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to register blue check marks under

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whatever name they wanted.

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And that pissed off a lot of people.

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It made it a lot harder

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to suss out what's real

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00:13:40,286 --> 00:13:41,954
and what's a bot.

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It's a lot worse now.

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So the EU was already

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planning to find Twitter,

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00:13:45,591 --> 00:13:46,492
but given that it is a

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00:13:46,492 --> 00:13:47,693
privately owned platform

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00:13:47,693 --> 00:13:48,827
and given that must privately

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owns other companies as well,

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they're using the total sum of the

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companies that he owns

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to calculate the fine,

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which is why they're

549
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potentially going to be doing

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00:13:57,002 --> 00:13:58,204
up to a billion dollars,

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which would be quite funny.

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Apart from that, there was a

553
00:14:00,906 --> 00:14:02,474
massive data breach of Twitter

554
00:14:02,474 --> 00:14:04,243
back in January, where about

555
00:14:04,243 --> 00:14:06,612
200 million users got hacked.

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00:14:06,612 --> 00:14:08,514
A user posted the leaked data

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00:14:08,514 --> 00:14:10,015
from this recent hack merged

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00:14:10,015 --> 00:14:11,283
with a hack from January

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00:14:11,283 --> 00:14:13,886
of 2023 for a massive trove

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00:14:13,886 --> 00:14:16,689
of data covering about 200 million users,

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00:14:16,689 --> 00:14:18,791
including their emails, names, locations,

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00:14:18,791 --> 00:14:19,625
all that good stuff.

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00:14:19,625 --> 00:14:21,093
It's unclear how the hack took place,

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00:14:21,093 --> 00:14:22,661
but the data seems legitimate.

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00:14:22,661 --> 00:14:24,129
And the original poster was like,

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00:14:24,129 --> 00:14:25,331
it seems like Twitter has

567
00:14:25,331 --> 00:14:26,966
no idea this even happened.

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00:14:26,966 --> 00:14:28,868
So that's fun.

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Congrats, Twitter.

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00:14:30,502 --> 00:14:32,037
Get off Twitter.

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00:14:32,037 --> 00:14:32,838
Lightning round.

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Starting today,

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Meta is going to be ending their

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00:14:36,108 --> 00:14:37,243
fact-checking services

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00:14:37,243 --> 00:14:38,177
in the US.

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Cory Booker managed a 25 hour filibuster

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on the Senate floor.

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And regardless of what you think the

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impact of that will be,

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that is a physically impressive feat.

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The man starved himself

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and didn't use the restroom

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for 25 hours.

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And it seems he was trying

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to beat the previous record,

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which was 24 hours and 18

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minutes set by Strom Thurmond

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while he was preventing the passage

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of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

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Oof.

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To help protect our country's seamen

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from icky concepts of gender,

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the Naval Academy has

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removed about 400 books

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from their library in

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their anti-DEI efforts.

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The TikTok sale may have

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been blown up at the last minute

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by the Trump tariffs,

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as China's obviously not

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happy about all of this.

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And so they're like,

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well, hold the fuck on.

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Let's go back to the drawing board.

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After admitting that they

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have mistakenly deported

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an innocent man to an El Salvador prison,

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the Department of

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Justice has fired the attorney

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that was working on

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behalf of the government

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trying to prevent bringing back that guy.

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Not because they had a change of heart

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and they want to do good now.

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They weren't happy with

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the way he was arguing

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that we shouldn't have to

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bring back the innocent man.

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He embarrassed the government

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by not properly preventing the judge

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from bringing back a dude

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who didn't get due process

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and committed no crimes.

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And finally for today,

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oil company Chevron has

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been fined $744 million

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for their ongoing role in the destruction

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of Louisiana wetlands.

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Can we quintuple that

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fine and then do it again?

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Thank you so much for

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listening to today's episode

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of Stuff Keeps Happening.

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Head to skh.news for

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sources, bonus content

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and even more fines for Chevron.

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I'll find them.

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My name's Endeavorance.

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I'll be back May 5th.

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Take care and be well.