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is november the 13th thursday and cecil i don't know what's going to happen between now

and then we've got a little long-form action to go through today.

Yeah. Yeah. Obviously, we can't always stay out like super on top of the news. But I think that the stories that we're going to cover today are something that is really important for America to understand nowadays. And it's something that's

happening every single day. And they're both about conspiracy theories. Yeah, the first article is,

you know, it's a little bit of a fluff piece from MIT. So, you know, if you're, it's from

MIT technology review.

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It really is.

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And this is like really worth your time.

It's really worth a listen. It's really worth gathering through. It's a long article.

It's an in-depth article. And I think it brings some information and some insight into really like where do conspiracies come from? And why are they so sort of everlasting and why are

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