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Speaker 1: All right welcome to episode two twenty five starting of

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Speaker 1: security news in coronavirus the US Department of Health and

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Speaker 1: Human Services ran a flu pandemic simulation in 2019 called

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Speaker 1: the Crimson contagion.

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Speaker 2: And the key findings from the report. Sound awfully familiar.

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Speaker 2: It was basically things like we are prepared we aren't

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Speaker 2: communicating well enough we don't have enough supplies.

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Speaker 3: So all the standard fare Amazon has deployed thermal cameras

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Speaker 3: to detect fevers faster than with thermometers.

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Speaker 4: Facebook will start telling users if they've interacted with harmful

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Speaker 4: misinformation around covered 19 it's kind of like contact tracing

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Speaker 4: for better information.

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Speaker 3: Over fifty three mobile phone towers have been attacked in

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Speaker 3: the UK by 5G. Conspiracy theorists and by the way

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Speaker 3: I got an email from one of these people and

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Speaker 3: they were like Yeah you're wrong about the Facebook story

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Speaker 3: wrong about the 5G thing because it's really dangerous and

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Speaker 3: it just went down the list of conspiracy theories and

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Speaker 3: said I was wrong about them because they're all true.

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Speaker 5: So definitely tested out my spam future my mail client.

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Speaker 4: India has instituted mandatory checks on Chinese investments during the

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Speaker 4: crisis in order to avoid China basically buying the country

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Speaker 4: while nobody is looking got a cool story here on

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Speaker 4: visualizing the occupations with the highest who virus risk Google

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Speaker 4: is slowing hiring for the rest of 2020 Amazon is

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Speaker 4: hiring 75000 more workers to keep up with demand.

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Speaker 3: There are multiple conspiracy groups spreading the narrative that Bill

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Speaker 3: Gates wants to use his vaccine research as a cover

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Speaker 3: to microchip people.

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Speaker 5: Oh by the way this this reader also sent me

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Speaker 5: that and said that was incorrect and said that Bill

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Speaker 5: Gates wants to kill everyone on the planet. Facebook has

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Speaker 5: canceled all large events through June of 2021. And frame

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Speaker 5: is a mental health gateway out of Los Angeles that

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Speaker 5: connects patients and mental health professionals. It's kind of a

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Speaker 5: two sided portal. Pretty cool idea.

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Speaker 3: Riot Games is offering up to one hundred thousand dollars

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Speaker 3: to people who can find vulnerabilities in their VA Laurent

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Speaker 3: anti cheat system great team over there at Riot Games.

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Speaker 5: Know a bunch of bunch of them. It's a really

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Speaker 5: really solid team.

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Speaker 4: Zoom has hired Kate my sources Luda security to revamp

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Speaker 4: their bug bounty program congrats to Katy for that rapid

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Speaker 4: 7 has launched something called attacker K.B. which is a

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Speaker 4: service for crowdsourcing vulnerability assessments.

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Speaker 2: It's an interesting entry into the quasi bounty market where

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Speaker 2: you're using collections of experts to solve tedious problems. And

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Speaker 2: yeah this is really interesting it's different than the standard.

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Speaker 2: Standard approach they're what they seem to be doing is

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Speaker 2: reading a vulnerability by how practical it is to actually

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Speaker 2: attack it in the real world and using a group

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Speaker 2: of actual attackers to do that reading they might be

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Speaker 2: doing more than that but seems pretty interesting. Attacker QB.

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Speaker 2: Advisories Patch Tuesday address 3 0 days and 15 credit

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Speaker 2: goals for one hundred and thirteen and total there's a

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Speaker 2: DNS Hijacking attack going around targeting links this router users

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Speaker 2: and links this is notifying customers to reset their passwords.

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Speaker 2: As AP patch five critical volumes. And there's a nasty

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Speaker 2: bug in VM or center view Center which allows you

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Speaker 2: to grab sensitive data and also add admin users. If

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Speaker 2: you're on the network without credentials. Companies are weak. Security

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Speaker 2: has raised 36 million to identify threats on the network

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Speaker 2: interface look pretty cool but knows how good it is.

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Speaker 4: Similar interesting technology news left is pivoting to delivering groceries

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Speaker 4: and other essential items while people were locked down. Stripe

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Speaker 4: continues to do well and they just raised six hundred

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Speaker 4: million at a nearly thirty six billion dollar valuation github

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Speaker 4: is now free for teams really strong power move here

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Speaker 4: by GitHub. I think everyone else is freaking out who

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Speaker 4: competing against them. For rising has purchased blue jeans to

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Speaker 4: get in on the video conferencing hype house party has

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Speaker 4: had 50 million sign ups in the last month. Human News.

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Speaker 2: San Francisco is experimenting with the relaxation of laws as

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Speaker 2: a pandemic coping mechanism crowds are gathering around the country

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Speaker 2: to protest social distancing hilarious ideas trends and analysis coded

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Speaker 2: will accelerate trends that were already coming. This is the

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Speaker 2: piece I wrote.

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Speaker 6: I know.

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Speaker 2: Within the last week or so a vaccine won't return

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Speaker 2: us to normal basic concept here's another essay I wrote.

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Speaker 2: It's basically that the way people were sick before like

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Speaker 2: getting the common flu or being constantly surrounded by people

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Speaker 2: who are sneezing and coughing at work and people sneezing

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Speaker 2: coughing on public transportation basically all around us people were

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Speaker 2: sick all the time. We had the flu vaccine because

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Speaker 2: people got the flu all the time which means cold

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Speaker 2: symptoms flu symptoms coughing and sneezing and just generally being sick.

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Speaker 2: Was just kind of normal. And it was the type

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Speaker 2: of dangerous that people ignore when they're exposed to it.

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Speaker 2: And suddenly when we get back to whatever. That is

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Speaker 2: not an old normal anymore that is going to look

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Speaker 2: super crazy. No one's going to know if that's a cold.

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Speaker 2: If it's the flu. If it's cover 19 or if

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Speaker 2: it's cover 20 no one is you'll know and that

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Speaker 2: I think is going to cause more friction than people

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Speaker 2: realize right now.

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Speaker 6: So I don't think the vaccine by itself is really

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Speaker 6: going to help with that.

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Speaker 4: Colm how C.G. ping new era should have ended US

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Speaker 4: debate on Beijing's ambitions sharp pronounced that wrong. The leader

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Speaker 4: of China basically yeah.

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Speaker 2: His new era should have ended US debate on Beijing's ambitions.

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Speaker 2: This is a deep level analysis on what China's actually

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Speaker 2: trying to do and so is the next paper which

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Speaker 2: is China's vision for a new world order. So these

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Speaker 2: two papers basically a deep view into what China's actually

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Speaker 2: trying to do on the world stage.

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Speaker 4: So really good reading and forget the time Marc Andreessen

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Speaker 4: says it's time to build. This is a really popular essay.

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Speaker 4: He just went around the Internet last week or so.

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Speaker 4: And he's basically saying that builders matter right. And builders

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Speaker 4: should be prioritized and we should just you know nose

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Speaker 4: to the grindstone and build stuff make stuff pretty compelling.

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Speaker 4: Although I did see on Hacker News already a pretty

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Speaker 4: strong like counter response to it. So we'll see what happens.

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Speaker 6: Probably nothing.

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Speaker 2: You know how the main characters in spy movies are

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Speaker 2: always changing identities. And like they just walked through another

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Speaker 2: checkpoint and they give a different passport. That's always confused

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Speaker 2: me and annoyed me for like the last 15 years.

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Speaker 2: But it's definitely becoming hard to do in real life

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Speaker 2: because the technology of facial recognition and identity tracking have

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Speaker 2: advanced so much so you could basically subscribe to I'm

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Speaker 2: probably a very cheap service and be able to identify

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Speaker 2: people by their faces. Updates. So this is really cool

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Speaker 2: really excited about this. I'm releasing a new podcast interview

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Speaker 2: episode this week and the guest this time is Renee

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Speaker 2: de Resta. She's my absolute favorite researcher in the space

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Speaker 2: of misinformation campaigns. We had a really great conversation on

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Speaker 2: multiple topics and you will get an email with a

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Speaker 2: direct link later in the week when it goes live.

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Speaker 2: Discovery jumping Fox notebooks. So one of my passions which

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Speaker 2: probably now is her world of writing pens notebooks and

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Speaker 2: of course typography. And my partner and I took a

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Speaker 2: calligraphy class with brown fox calligraphy which no relation brown

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Speaker 2: really cool class we got to learn calligraphy and everything

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Speaker 2: was right here in San Francisco. That was a couple

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Speaker 2: of years ago and she just saw her doing like

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Speaker 2: an unboxing and a talk through of this notebook which

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Speaker 2: is called Jumping Fox notebooks and they're super nice. The

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Speaker 2: best way to describe me I would say is they're

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Speaker 2: like most keen plus plus they're just just higher quality.

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Speaker 2: Most teens just much better. We got ours in the

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Speaker 2: mail today and it's extremely high quality all around. Cover

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Speaker 2: paper bookmarks. So if you have a fetish for writing

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Speaker 2: in pens and pencils and notebooks should definitely have a

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Speaker 2: look download networks. This is a script to download shown

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Speaker 2: and data for a list of networks and a text

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Speaker 2: file and this was released by John himself.

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Speaker 3: The opening eye microscope how to massively overengineered a WordPress

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Speaker 3: install and NWS thing is hilarious PR is a vulnerability

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Speaker 3: prioritization scheme from tenable that uses machine learning to forecast

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Speaker 3: how bad the actual threat will be for a given vulnerability.

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Speaker 2: Interesting approach and recommendations if you absolutely must learn everything

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Speaker 2: about this virus that's going around. I highly recommend with

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Speaker 2: TRW Ivy to podcast with nothing but virus experts and

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Speaker 2: doctors discussing everything about the situation. It's so refreshing to

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Speaker 2: hear actual experts talking about it amongst themselves in a

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Speaker 2: conversational sort of just open and friendly way. It's a

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Speaker 2: really really good podcast and it didn't just start like

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Speaker 2: to jump on this train or whatever it's there are

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Speaker 2: like episode six whatever 600 something so it's a regular

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Speaker 2: thing for them. They're all experts you get the latest

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Speaker 2: possible news you get conjecture but it's informed educated conjecture

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Speaker 2: because it's you know actual experts. And the aphorism for

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Speaker 2: the week. Had a few drops of venom to a

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Speaker 2: half truth and you have an absolute true.

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Speaker 4: Add a few drops of venom to a half truth

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Speaker 4: and you have an absolute truth. Eric Hoffer.