Matt Wilson spent years doing rounds at children's hospitals in New York City.

I had a clip on tie. I wore helies, size 11.

Matt was a medical clown.

The role of a medical clown is to reintroduce the sense of play and joy and hope and light into a space that doesn't normally inhabit.

Ideas about navigating uncertainty.

That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast from NPR.

Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Jack Spear.

The country's wealthiest tech titans will sit close to President-elect Donald Trump as he takes

his oath of office Monday.

NPR's Lou Garrett reports they include Tesla's CEO Alon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos,

and Open IA CEO Sam Altman. A source familiar with the planning tells NPR, the tech

billionaires will sit on the inaugural platform on the west front of the U.S. Capitol. Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg are the world's three wealthiest people, with a combined

net worth of nearly $940 billion, according to Forbes.

Musk spent $250 million to help Trump's campaign.

Following Trump's victory, Silicon Valley CEOs have met with the president-elect and contributed

to his inauguration fund.

During his farewell address, President Joe Biden said, quote, an oligarchy is taking shape in America.

Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.

SpaceX's giant starship rocket has blasted off the pad from the company South Texas launch site

at its most complicated test flight to date. The booster from

the huge rocket, then returning back to Earth, where it was caught by a giant mechanical arm,

or arms, key to reusability of the rocket. Starship will orbit the Earth and land in the Indian

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