[April Fools] Changes coming. You won't want to miss these announcements.

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      "text": " You're welcome to listen to this, of course. However, much of it won't make sense unless you watch it, so please visit the YouTube link in the description to see the visual kegs."
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      "text": " Click on the timestamp in the description to skip this intro. Then read the comment section of people asking for the timestamp to skip this intro. Firstly, huge announcement. Bob Lazar has donated element 115. And I heard that Jeremy Corbell is working to stretch this 10 minutes of content into a three and a half hour documentary."
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      "text": " Personally, I'm looking forward to it being narrated by Mickey Rourke because I don't think I have enough thoughts of what the **** is going on already floating around in my head. Secondly, there will be new thumbnails out with the old clean images and in with the cutouts of Kurt in a provocative pose with the guest and the contrived white borders with the red arrow since"
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      "text": " That's not overplayed on YouTube. Why not achieve the equivalence of mind uploading and give my soul to the algorithm? In that vein, I'm going to make sure that I say like this video and smash that subscribe button. Call to actions, ending videos with, so what do you guys think? Leave a comment below about something vapid that wastes everyone's time for the sake of demonstrating engagement to the platform."
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      "text": " More reactions to memes with guests. I think that the popularity of these standalone meme clips more than justifies the degradation of the character and self-respect they bring to a channel. We'll also have different types of reaction videos. So, for example, Sabine Hassenfelder reacts."
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      "text": " of their commerce. Shopify, by the way, powers 10% of all e-commerce in the United States, including huge names like Allbirds, Rothy's, and Brooklynin. If you ever need help, their award-winning support is like having a mentor that's just a click away. Now, are you ready to start your own success story? Sign up for a $1 per month trial period at Shopify.com slash theories, all lowercase."
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      "text": " Linda Moulton-Howe reacts to Kurt's leather jacket. Leo Gura reacts to anti-psychotic medication. Also, for every one podcast, I'll snip about six clips of it and post it to the main channel to increase view counts at the expense of cluttering your feed, because you don't necessarily need to associate quality with every single post on this channel. That's ridiculous. You can skip it if you don't like. I mean, you can skip everything except the... Hear that sound?"
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      "text": " Patreon and the sponsor request, which will remain approximately 40% of the video. Another announcement is that there will be more pushback from Kurt, especially toward the guests who repeatedly admit that their interpretation of quantum mechanics is not testable and that the data that they have is anecdotal about something, perhaps there's an NDA involved, with me repeatedly saying, okay, well, where's the evidence? And then smugly lean back as they admit in self-defeat, ah, Kurt, wow, you got me. What a brilliant question that I've never considered before."
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      "text": " I will then follow suit with a liberal use of the word grifter and writhe in my own self-importance anonymously on social media. Another announcement for the Ask Me Anythings, the more sober and ordinary the username, the better. Alien Alcoholic asks, have you heard of facilities that are housing live aliens? This question comes from Poop Dig. What does he think I know? This question comes from Dom Talong."
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      "text": " Question to Ross from EuphoricGurr4674 as a journalist who understands... We didn't get all these knives! And of course, priority will be given to Alien Smeagma Collector. Which, by the way, I just found out is McWest's pseudonym on Animal Crossing. On this theme, if you want to hear what the other Theo Locution guest has to say, then you're going to have to pay for a premium subscription."
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      "text": " People are always like, super determinism isn't a thing and they never bother to look at the literature to see what models people have actually worked with. Recently, I've come to several conclusions like that the fringe is indeed misinformed and the innovation will come from the conservative center. On this account, I think string theory is probably correct. Many worlds is probably correct."
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      "text": " Lastly, there will be more of me pensively looking off onto my desk at some unseen object as if I'm silently having a profound insight, but I'm truly thinking about if my poor wife has used up the plastic cups we set aside for her to urinate in because this is the only bathroom in our condo and I'm four hours into this podcast live. You know what? I don't think I've imitated Jordan Peterson's mannerisms enough this year, so I'll be working on that as well."
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      "text": " Thank you and I hope you enjoy the upcoming changes. Now hold on while I observe the chat explaining to people that premiering isn't the same as live streaming."
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