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🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hannah? Nick. |
0:02.2 | Civics 101. |
0:03.4 | It sure is. |
0:04.7 | It sure is. |
0:06.6 | And today, well, I have a 101 of a different color, Nick. |
0:12.7 | A different color. Like a horse of a different color? |
0:15.8 | Yes, which by the way is an idiom that I thought came exclusively from the Wizard of Oz until I fact-checked |
0:22.0 | it for this episode. |
0:23.9 | Hannah, we just don't know what we don't know. |
0:27.4 | Which actually leads nicely into today's episode talking about what we don't know because |
0:33.2 | the original goal of this episode today was to talk about the tech industry and the executive branch. |
0:40.2 | So big tech, right? |
0:42.1 | Like the fact that there were a bunch of tech giants at the inauguration, |
0:47.0 | Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos sitting where the president's family or former presidents usually sit. |
0:53.0 | Sitting with Metas Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, and Google's Sunder Pichai. |
0:58.5 | The billionaires seated in the first row in front of some cabinet nominees. |
1:04.8 | And a bunch of executive orders that have to do with AI and social media and tech regulations. |
1:11.4 | Right. |
1:12.1 | And the idea here was, you know, like, how did big tech get all involved with this administration, |
1:18.2 | if indeed they are? |
1:20.1 | But here's the thing. |
1:21.4 | It's not the involvement of big tech per se, but it is the involvement of one particular tech superstar. |
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