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A Hip-Hop Comic Book Star Comes to Life in Steel

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Good morning. It’s Thursday. We’ll meet a new iteration of Rappin’ Max Robot that is bound for Paris, via the Bronx. We’ll also get details on Robert Kennedy Jr.’s testimony in the court case seeking to have him removed from the November ballot in New York.

A large robot statue of a figure leaning on a boombox in a warehouse.
Credit...Clark Ivers, Welder Underground

Rappin’ Max Robot began life as a comic book character only a few inches tall.