Late Night BBN: Ramaswamy ad, a new fossil, Jon Jones, One Piece

What BBN said about it

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIn Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign ran a one-minute ad featuring the estranged mother of his opponent, Amy Acton.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorCongresswoman Nancy Mace said on CNN that the ad might have cost JD Vance the presidency, which is a lot of pressure for sixty seconds.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorWhich presidency? He's got one now.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe one he hasn't been elected to yet. It's a very early loss, Dale. It's a pre-loss.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorRamaswamy's campaign manager told Axios the ad is a campaign-ending moment for Acton.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe ad also ran without the legally required paid-for disclaimer. So the campaign-ending moment skipped the one line saying who paid for it.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd they're spending four million dollars to promote it. The disclaimer would have been free.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA Emerson poll has Acton at forty-six and Ramaswamy at forty-five. So the campaign-ender has her up one.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd America gets its first One Piece store, opening Friday, November sixth, in Los Angeles.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA talking Chopper greets you at the door. Unlike the ad, he'll tell you who paid for him.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorTime for a desk bit. It's called Fine Print Five, the five things the ad should have said, and Dale gets one.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNumber five: paid for by the people who paid for it.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNumber four: this is a minute long, and so is the regret.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNumber three: four million dollars, disclaimer extra.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNumber two. Oh, that's rich.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNumber one: please see the fossil for how paperwork lasts. Our guest tonight has waited in line for a living. Please welcome Barnaby Oyelaran!

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    Barnaby OyelaranThanks for having me. I waited forty minutes in the green room, and honestly that was a warm-up.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorYou're a champion queue stander. What does that mean, exactly?

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    Barnaby OyelaranI once stood for ninety minutes for a sandwich, on this very stool. It has outlasted three mayors.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd did you get the sandwich?

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    Barnaby OyelaranI reached the counter after a hundred and ten minutes. Well, near the counter. Technically the door.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo you've never reached the front.

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    Barnaby OyelaranI've reached the front of the idea of the front. My app, Stand By, finds you the longest line in your city. It's out now.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAn app that finds queues. You'd be a hit in Britain.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorBarnaby Oyelaran, everybody. We're back same time tomorrow, and Dale, don't wait on the disclaimer.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTwo hundred thousand years earlier than expected, and the fossil still has a clearer paper trail than that ad.