And welcome back to WSHIT News.

It's news your uncle can use to get uninvited to Thanksgiving dinner.

A very mixed reaction this afternoon to the announcement of a firing and a new appointment

to the director's chair of Crab App Apple's Aeronautics and Space Project,

or Casp, for short.

Early this morning, news broke that the mayor of Crab Apple had fired longtime director,

Melanie Cassovich, after she refused to accept applications into the space program based on the applicant's podcast listenership. She also quickly shot

down an idea by the mayor to put an image of his face on any future rockets meant for space.

Then, in a late-day announcement by the mayoral office, Roger Spence Talwhacker was picked to lead

the local space agency. Roger Spence, of course, is a former business associate

of the mayor and was the CEO for the mayor's for-profit business school focusing on

MLM sales training. He was most recently the chief creative officer for failed NFT project

Forskin Kingdom. Roger Spence gave his first press conference as the chief of cast today, and here's

what he had to say to reporters in the room.

Does it matter if the earth is round or flat?

Well, the reason it matters if the earth is rounded flat, because if you're on a round

ball spinning through space, thousands of miles an hour, spinning thousands of miles

miles, that's scary.

That's traumatizing.

But if you know you're on a flat earth, it's stationary with a bubble above you,

and God is protecting you, and you feel safe.

So it's part of trauma-based mind control is what it is.

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