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Welcome to the big suite presented by Giraffe King.

Why are you listening to this show?

The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard podcast.

I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that.

In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging.

I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries.

If they're just there, that hasn't happened to you guys.

I've done it.

And now, here's the marching band to nowhere, that face and the habitual liar.

Ben Smith is going to be on with us later in this hour.

He's the author of a new book about the rise and fall of digital media startups over

the last two and a half decades.

Vice yesterday filed for bankruptcy after once having a valuation of $5.7 billion.

And one of the great stories of rising from the ashes and the dumpster opposite mainstream

media to become a profitable, successful, crazy, successful thing is barstual sports.

At least in part, because they have the image of being counterculture of being rebellious,

of being free in ways that aren't exactly positive often.

And they get into a lot of trouble, but have a fan base that enjoys that trouble.

And in the age of the lament of cancel culture, enjoys that barstual doesn't have the rules

that others have.

But yesterday, barstual had to fire someone, a popular employee, because that employee

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