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This is Owen Bennett Jones, host of The Future of and each week I interview leading authors on books that say something about the nature of the world we live in and where it's headed.

So I'm trying to look at relevant, topical, important issues such as the ideological thinking of the far right in the United States,

the latest research on the nature of delusions and consciousness and the way big finance makes its money often through conflicts of interest.

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This is Hemman. It's Jessica.

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Which I don't know if that's your name or your user name, but either way, I like it into it.

The problem is I think Hemman is that we don't offer checkmarks for our people who I am so obsessed with this is on my bonus episode.

Just flailing. He literally as we record this Thursday night, 20 minutes ago, going forward, accounts engaged in parody must include parody in their name.

No, that's that's days old. No, no, no. Oh, contraire moan frayer. He rewrote it. 751 p.m. September 10th November 10th.

Sorry. He is doing so bad. I think what I'm mostly depressed about is that this guy out for no good reason is basically like I'm rich enough.

So I can just take this thing and ruin it. And it's like it's one of the only things that I genuinely like in terms of social media.

Like I don't like Facebook. I'll do it because I have to. Yes. Like you don't have to make it this hellscape. I mean it's a hellscape enough.

You don't have to make it worse. And it's like you're taking away like something that brings me happiness.

Yeah. There's only like three things. Like one, Twitter. Two.

Crosswords. Three crosswords. We got them. One, two, three. That's it. Yeah, it's it truly is so dystopian that we are in a point that just a rich dude can buy one of the biggest pieces of mass communication.

Obviously, what just Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post or one of those people bought it. And then he's like, alright, do whatever we'll have a meeting once a year.

It doesn't as far as I can tell does not touch it does not play with it. Whatever. Don't feel great about it. But I do appreciate that as far as rich people buying shit goes.

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