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• Remember the other day on breakfast champs you guys spoke about barney and friends when you spoke to one of the champs? Clearly the Gods were listening… because the friendly purple dinosaur that we’ve loved since the 90’s is making a return… Yesterday Mattel Television made a global announcement that they’re bringing back Barney! but this is a re-make because now everything must be AI and digital.

• Yale University Professor Yusuke Narita has retracted his claim that old people in Japan should commit mass suicide to solve the country’s problem of debt his comments, made in 2021 on you tube went largely unnoticed until they surfaced online last month and now were quoted in a New York times article this week.

• What is really on ICU is South Africa guys! As a South African, would you call for motion of no confidence in South Africa nje as a country?
14 Feb 2023 11PM English South Africa Entertainment News

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