The Show Is Streaming Live At The Following Platforms (Show Will Be Archived For A Few Days On Certain Platforms):

1. Variant News At dlive.tv: https://dlive.tv/variant_news
2. Variant News On Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/variant_news
3. Variant News On Trovo.live: https://trovo.live/variant_news
4. Variant News On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live_stream
5. Variant News On float.app: https://flote.app/user/variant_news/live

Topics For The Show:

Main Topic Title:

• • Discuss State of Twitler
    • Will Musk’s stake eventually give him enough control so that he can fix Twitler
    • Twitler UI/Design is poor, many aspects of the site are broken
      • https://www.theverge.com/23026874/elon-musk-twitter-buyout-news-updates
      • https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-twitter-purchase-can-musk-buy-twitter/
      • https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/elon-musk-twitter
    • What’s the term for the new fragmentation worldwide for the internet? Splinternet!
    • Censorship exists even in the US, discuss the major countries splintering the internet
      • US military atrocities would be censored for US based IP addresses
  • Fuck Bucks? WTF?
    • https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/6/23013896/meta-facebook-zuck-bucks-finance-financial-services-products
    • Zuckerberg has only 13% of shares in Meta
      • https://news.sky.com/story/facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg-takes-29bn-hit-as-meta-share-price-plunges-12532517
    • Also discuss state of Ethereum. Does Zuck have dreams overtaking ETH for NTF purchases?
      • discuss move to PoS issues
    • All of Zucks recent projects have failed, long term future for meta is not looking good
  • Music Festivals coming up (20 min)
    • Find tickets for festivals – Canada & US
    • https://www.songkick.com/festivals/countries/ca
    • https://www.songkick.com/festivals/countries/us
    • TicketMaster
      • https://www.ticketmaster.com/ 
      • Search TicketMaster In Canada
        • https://www.ticketmaster.ca/search?q=canada
        • https://globalnews.ca/news/6841720/ticketmaster-canada-coronavirus-refund-policy/
      • Scams Run By TicketMaster ( How was the court case resolved? )
        • https://globalnews.ca/news/6841720/ticketmaster-canada-coronavirus-refund-policy/ (0 to 1:00)
        • https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ticketmaster-misleading-price-investigation-1.5192724 
        • https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/ticketmaster-cheating-scalpers-726353/
        • https://www.nme.com/news/music/ticketmaster-facing-lawsuit-following-touting-scan-2385891

Current Events and Bizarro News:

• • https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/04/15/canada-bear-ransacks-British-Columbia-mans-car/6231650054663/
  • https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/04/13/TV-theme-song-helps-identify-long-lost-bird-Lancaster-County-Pennsylvania/4951649876837/
  • https://news.sky.com/story/florida-man-arrested-after-stealing-a-crossbow-by-stuffing-it-down-his-trousers-12550364