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Because “a lot of the really fun people have abandoned Twitter,” Victor says it’s the weirder stuff that’s trending these days. For example: concern about the sludgy “brine” that’s a byproduct of desalination, the process of removing salt from sea water to make it drinkable. Also: Aaron and Victor discuss their slightly-artificial radio voices, Victor is weirded out by Mark Zuckerberg’s interest in martial arts, and Aaron marvels over how Elon Musk is so bad, he’s actually gotten people to root for Zuckerberg.

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