In this episode of the Tech John, we discussed a finalized TikTok deal potentially being signed on Thursday.

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I'm your host, Rob Dunwood.

And coming out of Philly, it's your girl, Tech Life, Steph. And Steph, we were just talking about this. It's just the two of us. It's been a minute. I think the two of us have only done a show just the two of us just once. We've always had a guest when Terrence has been out. So he had, he's doing some home improvement stuff and stuff and has a lease on some stuff that he had to turn back in today or he's going to get charged for it. So he's like, I'm not mad at that. I'm getting done today. He was supposed to be done this weekend, but he's like, I'm getting done today. Because depending on what he rented, you know, what sort of tool he rented, That could be a grip. So I'm mad at him,

like, let me finish this up and get this thing back to Home Depot. Yeah, so we don't have any

AKAs or anything like that for you. But it is just a two of this episode with Tech Life Steph

and Rob. Like I said, I'm excited to do it because we just haven't done it. It's not our regular

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But let's go ahead and get started, as I said, in the little intro to what we're talking about, Trump and Xi, President Trump and President Xi of China. They are supposed to sign a deal on Thursday. It seems like the TikTok deal has been finalized. Something will be signed on Thursday. Now, that doesn't mean that on Thursday, we now start using a U.S. TikTok. I think they still have, there are ways away from actually getting all of that tech done. But the deal has been finalized, and these two folks are supposed to sign it this coming Thursday. So that could mean that we will be having a U.S. version of TikTok coming up in the not too distant future. That's the news of it. Steph, what I really wanted to talk to you

about on this is I certainly hope TikTokers have a backup plan because y'all have now had

over nine months to get ready for this. I think that TikTok went down was on the 20th of January.

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