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Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Punch Bull News Reback podcast. I'm your host, Max Cohen,

and today I'm joined by Ben Brody, our tech aficionado and leader of everything tech at Punchball News.

So, Ben, thanks so much for joining me. How are you doing?

Doing pretty good. Happy recess, Max.

Thank you. Happy recess. We were just chatting before we went

live about how my recess has been comparatively calm, but I understand that was not the case for you,

and that's the subject of your article this week. So take it away, Ben. There was a lot of change

at the Federal Trade Commission. Is that right?

Yeah. So my recess did start nice and calm, the way yours probably did. And then we got news that

Donald Trump, that the White House has moved to fire to Democratic commissioners on the FTC and all hell kind of broke loose

on my beat for for about two or three days.

It really was pretty unprecedented.

That's fair to say, right?

What happened to Rebecca, Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Badoia.

Talk me through the implications of the firings and what came next?

Yeah, definitely unprecedented. It happened once about 90 years ago or a little more during the

FDR administration and the Supreme Court ruled that it couldn't be done, that the president can only fire

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