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Speaker 1: From Kaleidoscope and iHeart podcasts. This is kill Switch. I'm

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Speaker 1: Dexter Thomas. Goodbye. On Tuesday, June tenth, Joseph Cox over

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Speaker 1: at four or four Media noticed something weird going on

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Speaker 3: When the protests started over the weekend. I did what

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Speaker 3: to adsb exchange dot com. It's a website where volunteers

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Speaker 3: they run basically little sensors that can detect flight traffic.

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Speaker 3: The website then makes this freely available. But what I

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Speaker 1: Let's talk real briefly if we could about this site

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Speaker 3: are anti ice protests. Customs and Border Protection is also

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Speaker 3: of another one. So will we see them in other protests? Broadly, yes,

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for making time for this. Thank

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, there.

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Speaker 1: Is a lot more we could say about the protests

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Speaker 1: that are happening right now, but again, this episode isn't

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Speaker 1: really about these protests in particular. But I do want

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Speaker 1: a link to a guide on how you can be

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Speaker 1: safe for the protest. This applies to you whether you're

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Speaker 1: a journalist, whether you're a protest to yourself, or just

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Speaker 1: turn off the TV, get off your phone and just

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Speaker 1: see for yourself what's happening outside. Again, that's in the

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Speaker 1: show notes. That's from Wired dot com and I've read

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Speaker 1: through it and I definitely recommend it for everyone. Thanks

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Speaker 1: doing our thing. Kill Switch is hosted by Me Dexter Thomas.

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