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Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt.

My name is Noel. They call me Ben. We're joined as always with our super producer, Alexis Codem.

Doc Holiday Jackson. Most importantly, you are you. You are here.

And that makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.

It's the top of the week. We are heading into the end of February, the beginning of March, 2023.

There are so many things happening in the world. We talked a little bit about the continuing debacle in Ohio.

Never fear. We have an episode on that coming. And we've also talked extensively with ourselves about cop city here in the metropolis of Atlanta, Georgia.

We have more on that. The reason we started doing strange news is because there's a lot of stuff that doesn't make it through the news cycle or gets lost, you know, in the constant chatter of modern society.

You may not know that Australia has discovered a hive of spies. You may not know about the rise of the super pig. We didn't know about all these things.

But you know, you may have like many of us forgotten that there is still litigation going on surrounding election conspiracies.

And that's something that's kind of fallen out of the news and it really shouldn't.

Yeah, and it's interesting that we're talking about the news because that is exactly what this pertains to than that news cycle.

In many cases, it is designed to just attract eyeballs and demographics and you know, the idea of what gets chosen selectively, very selectively, to be covered is part of a much larger calculation that of course pertains to ratings and ultimately advertising dollars and you know market share and things like that.

And with any news outlet, you have to take that into consideration. Why are they showing me this now? What are they trying to distract me from? Why do they want me to be thinking about this now? Who am I as pertains to that demographic?

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