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Today is April 20th, a date that for some reason Elon Musk finds really funny. 420 is a pot

smoking reference, essentially a pull my finger kind of joke, that in the real world

isn't funny, but it's really hilarious if you're either a 15-year-old boy or a tech billionaire.

The only thing funnier than 420 to people like this is the number 69.

Look, I don't know, I guess I'm telling you this because I'm recording

this on April 20th and it's about Elon Musk's whimsical attempt to buy Twitter. Now, I probably

should Google 420 and tell you guys a bit more about it, but I don't really need to do that

as the comments section will be filled with hundreds

of comments, starting with the word actually.

And in truth, I really don't want to know much about it, as I worry that if I fill up my head

with nonsense like this, there's a risk that it'll push out some actually useful information,

and my channel will eventually degrade into me discussing

the genius of using rocket technology to build tunnels, which might make the channel more popular

in many ways.

So we get to use rocket technology to build tunnels.

So my overall goal is to forget having recorded this almost as soon as it's uploaded.

And I'll probably do that by listening to Rassel Khan music on repeat play until I've forgotten pretty much everything.

Then I can get back to my longer term goal of having a channel that's mostly about rap and of course

rapping.

Who got coronavirus?

Who?

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