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Speaker 1: tech Stuff from how stuff works dot com. Hello there, everyone,

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Speaker 1: and welcome again to tech stuff. My name is Chris Philette,

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Speaker 1: and I am the tech editor here at how stuff

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Speaker 1: works dot com. And as he often does on these occasions,

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Speaker 1: sitting across from me is senior writer Jonathan Strickland. Major though.

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Speaker 1: Right then, so uh let's talk politics, yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: because that's what we normally talk about. Tech stuff is

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Speaker 1: all about the politics. And we're not talking PC versus

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't have any research on it, but

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Speaker 1: So the web is a global entity, Okay, so we're

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