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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 Max the Freight Train Williams most importantly you are you you are here that

makes this the stuff they don't want you to know fellow conspiracy realist tonight's episode is not pleasant. There's no two ways about it.

It's a natural follow-up to some of the previous explorations we've had on the nature of the internet technology and online communication.

We've talked about this at length in the past.

Base human tendencies tend to drive innovation.

I mean war, for almost always leads to tremendous

scientific breakthroughs but one thing we don't talk about as often is how it's a

reciprocal relationship.

You know, technology also exacerbates and affects those natural human tendencies.

I mean, some scientific breakthroughs also lead to war is very much a two-way street. We

could say this about any tendency, including the human drive for reproduction, for lust, from the early days of film to the rivalry of VHS and

Beta Max, sex has always been a great decider of technology. Do you guys remember

hearing about the Betaax VHS thing?

Oh, I mean, yeah, I guess, just in terms of like the battle for supremacy of format?

Yeah, it was ultimately the adult entertainment industry

that decided that.

Ultimately, the reason VHS tapes ascended

or VHS technology was because it was that that format the industry chose and we're

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