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Episode #280 Hour 1: Maybe America just needs a hard lesson
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Episode #280 Hour 1: Maybe America just needs a hard lesson

Alex goes on a rampage against Senators for picking on his (possibly) turn-coat girlfriend, DeepSeek’s “inner monolog” sounds like a foul-mouthed, stress-out cubicle worker, we wonder if Trump & E...

Unattended Baggage Show Notes 02/01/2025

Episode #280: Maybe America just needs a hard lesson

Alex goes on a rampage against Senators for picking on his (possibly) turn-coat girlfriend, DeepSeek’s “inner monolog” sounds like a foul-mouthed, stress-out cubicle worker, we wonder if Trump & Elon are actually planning an “Oceans 11” heist, the War on Woke goes Cyber, and we’re not buying the FAA’s stories…any of them.

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“That’s the answer. However, I need to make sure I didn’t use any banned words. Let me check my monologue. Did I say ‘but’? No. Did I use ‘wait’? Oh, hang on. In my thinking, I wrote ‘Wait, no…’ and ‘Wait, but…’ Wait, that’s using ‘wait’. Fuck! I used ‘wait’ in my inner monologue. I need to apologize. I’m so sorry, user! I messed up. Let me rephrase that part without the ‘wait’.”

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