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Pro-America protesters showing up to these protests waiving American flags dropping down massive American flags and pushing back on the far left pro-Hamaas and pro-Palestine groups and it's resulted in some confrontations but we'll talk about that

story at the same time a lot of this is going down at University of Chicago

there's a really weird story I honestly didn't believe it. But apparently the protesters are demanding

dental dams that one of their demands is HIV test dental dams and I thought that was

a joke but it's actually on their Instagram, so okay.

And the confrontation is getting interesting

with people playing the song, Born in the USA.

So it's Friday night, we're gonna have a good time,

we'll talk about that.

And then after we do, there's World War 3 because Russia and

China are preparing joint exercises focused on Taiwan and you know it's kind

of worrying I guess and then we have this funny story Mark Hamill was speaking at the White House press conference of thing you could possibly do and he was trying to win an award or something.

I'm kidding but you know it's kind of true.

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