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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, Dylan, the Tennessee pal Fagan.

Most importantly, you are you, you are here.

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

If you are hearing our strange news program,

the evening it publishes,

let us be the first to officially welcome you to Monday, January 27th.

There's so much stuff going on.

Shout out to everybody who had, you know,

who was chasing the TikTok dragon

and had to go into some hard, like, some hard withdrawal and then got it back.

It was a real roller coaster of emotions over my house with the kids being like,

it's gone, everything is terrible, it's back.

It's just, yeah, it was fun.

Yeah. And TikTok is obviously a huge social media platform. It was pulled voluntarily by TikTok's

parent company due to the ongoing discourse between the U.S. and China. And then it was reinstated kind of the same way that

Coca-Cola did New Coke and then came out with Coke Classic. And it was an entirely different recipe.

Well, Ben, I mean, you mentioned offline, you know, the need to maybe do a deeper dive into how social media affects our attention span, but also what an important potential means of opinion manipulation and control it could be in the hands of, say, a government that was using it in that fashion.

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