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We'll drink and toast with a show of the day.

And we do have your headlines on the way of 550. But first quick check on with Mike Hawk and some of the stories and headlines he is not working on. Well, thank you, Miles. Apparently scientists glued moss to the outside of the ISS for 286 days. And what happened? It survived. I believe it. Moss is kind of like a cockroach, right? Moss survives a lot. It's a bacteria, isn't it?

I don't know, is it?

Or, like, it's... I believe it. Moss is kind of like a cockroach, right? Moss survives a lot.

It's a bacteria, isn't it? Is it? Or it's, like, it is alive, but it's not our alive. Right. You know what I mean? Kind of just has its own thing on it. And I want to say out on the peninsula, it's like one of the highest concentrations of different types of moths in the world. Oh, really? Yeah. Makes sense.

Mosses are small and non-vascular flowerless green plants that thrive in moist, shaded environment, spreading via spores rather than seeds. So yeah, it's a fungus.

But also you say, what, moist environment, like the outside of the space station is about as dry of a place as you can be, I would think.

I've seen branches on trees out there where Ted's talking about.

Yeah.

Where there was so much moss that would build up on the branch that a tree seed had fallen into it and actually sprouted a different tree on top of the branch.

It was a, it was growing a tree on the moss.

On top of the, on top of a tree.

Oh my word.

You could also use it in a pinch if you had to build an emergency shelter. Absolutely. For insulation. Yeah. It's great insulation. It's great for your roof. Moss it out, dude. Moss it out, man. No, your normal roof? No. Terrible for it. Out there, and you're wielding his roof. That's fine. You know me. I'm out there building a cabin.

Of course you are, man.

You're one of those guys on TikTok. That's just, you know, you're building out there in the woods. Live it off the land. Look out. A new report says 44% of new music uploads are AI generated and most streams are fraudulent. Yeah, I've been caught a couple times. What is that? Is that the artist boosting their own sale streams?

No, it's, it's, that's, it's the thing that we see, you know, even on social media. It is AI generated accounts making AI generated content, which is liked and promoted by AI generated. And then they get paid, right? Yeah. Okay. Pretty much. A mean, look, if you like an AI song, what hell is the difference?

Right.

Well, the thing is that you don't like it.

The AI accounts like that. The AI likes it.

Okay, I got you. It's a bunch of cheap garbage. Well, and like, I just, I don't know. It's just a personal thing. but sometimes you hear, I was like, oh, that song's great.

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