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Sep 2023
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What Is General Relativity?

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On today’s episode the guys get into a discussion about General Relativity, which is physicist Albert Einstein's understanding of how gravity affects the fabric of space-time. Plus we get into the missing F-35 plane and the guy who found it, the Kelce brothers and Taylor Swift, Donald Trump Jr., The Barstool Writer Cup and much more.


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