In response to the USA's weird obsession with Greenland, Denmark prepares to send its first wave of conscripts. Google makes a massive fumble with a short-lived AI program that allowed people to just 'make up' stuff on Google Earth. Multiple naked guys get on the wrong side of the law, including one who claimed to be Jesus Christ. Also, for some reason, RFK Jr. wants you to know he doesn't have a gag reflex. All this and more in this week's strange news segment.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
My name is Matt, my name is Noah.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
They call me Ben. We're joined as always with our
super producer Max the Free Train Williams. Most importantly, you
are you. You are here. That makes this the stuff
they don't want you to know. If you are tuning
in to our strange news program the Evening It publishes,
let us welcome you to August tenth, twenty twenty six.
(00:54):
So much stuff is going on. We love to begin
and end this segment with some good news. So as
you know, folks, we are over stuff they want you to know.
We have been intensely interested in the looming problem of microplastics,
and guys, we got some good news just a few
days ago.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I could notice it, Ben and the doc it just
spoke to me. It was it made me feel very
good inside. Tell us all about it.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Oh yes, this comes to us from the American Chemical Society.
They have officially verified that researchers are creating what they
call a self destructing living plastic that completely breaks down
in just six days and leaves no microplastics behind.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
So it's biodegradable basically, and it's the same structural integrity
as plastic and the same ability to kind of shape
it do all the plasticky things that we've come to
love so well.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Yeah, it uses a sciencey a mad side and see
engineered bacteria that can completely break down when it is
activated living plastics. That is where we're that's where we're
headed for the future. If you want to learn more,
you can check out a study published in ACS Applied
(02:17):
Polymer Materials super Sexy trade publication. You can also read
a breakdown of this on Science Daily. But as we'll
see in tonight's Strange News, probably good to have some
positive stuff at the beginning and the end. Also, just
side note, we don't have to spend a bunch of
(02:39):
time on it, folks. But RFK Junior wants everybody to
know that he does not have a gag reflex.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Really helpful. Yes, eating all kinds of gutty parts just
for fun is an odd way of framing that, though,
that he'll eat anything for that reason. I think it
was the Potsave American Guys pointed out that he could
have just said I have a very adventurous palette or
I like to try new things, but framing it in
terms of a lack of a gag reflex does make
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the mind wander elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
But he's trying to let everybody know.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, well he's just you know, just if you happen
to be in the neighborhood he is. His exact quote
comes from a conversation with USA Today where he is
promoting his new YouTube show, which is all about cooking.
By the way, because it's twenty twenty six, that's where
(03:33):
we live in It's called The Real, Real Food Show.
And we'll give you just this quote. We're not going
to do the voice out of respect. I will literally
eat anything. I don't have a gag reflex. Let me
put it like that. I will eat anything. And I
love experimenting with foods. I love all different kinds of foods.
When I travel, I'll eat, you know, even stuff I
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find on the street.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
What I didn't see that extended.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
There's a street vendors. I'm being unfair, and I know
that that is gonna sound very strange.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Oh so he just doesn't eat half eaten hot dogs
that he finds like an alleyways, although I wouldn't put
it past him, and he may or may not gargle
with rocks. Also, apparently there is a diet that he
is promoting that some of the cabinet members and himself
have apparently been enjoying. It's like all meat and fermented foods.
(04:27):
And apparently there's I can't remember who was, there's a
doctor involved in in the you know, promotion of this
particular diet who said that it will cause you to
take poops that you don't have to wipe that feel
borderline or gasmic. Right, I'm gonna leave that there.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
And folks, again, look, if you if you hear that
recitation I did out in the wild, please remember it
is a quote. It is not me saying any of that,
not that there's anything wrong with not having a gag reflex.
How do get out of this hole? You guys? I say,
we take a break for a word from our sponsors,
(05:13):
and we have returned with again some strange news that
is not making it or not making as much of
a wave as it should in the West or in
your favorite mainstream media. Guys, remember, not too too long ago,
we did an episode on conscription, and this was triggered
(05:34):
by signals that US management was sending about possibly reinstating
the draft.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Remember that one, Yeah, yeah, I do, Ben, I'm so sorry.
I don't want to derail. We were talking about Secretary
Kennedy and the YouTube and I guess all of his
socials are sec sec Kennedy. And if you've if you
(06:01):
just pronounce it or say it out, it looks like
it says second to d Does it really does?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
That's the kind of hominem we love.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Also, just point out that the Milk video where he's
working out with Kid Rock and it says hole raw milk.
Just take a look at that one and notice the
font that is used and then what it resembles.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, I'm so sorry to derail.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
We were talking about conscription though, do you guys And
that's a it's a great point about second and d
uh do uh? Do you guys remember the conscription episode
about the draft? Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Of course, I mean it was. It's something that has
been looming large lately and was definitely something that I
think all of us were thinking about when we were younger,
But it seemed sort of like a little bit more ephemeral,
and now it's starting to feel a little bit more
you know, eminent.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
And one one day we will be correct about predicting
a good thing. Today is not that, Dave now not
august ted this. We predicted another not great thing. It
is related to well, we'll give you the headline first here, folks.
(07:18):
Remember we talked about how conscription would outside of the
United States. It would definitely increase or be reinstated in
other parts of the world, other global conflict theaters. We
are able to confirm now thanks to military NYE and
the journalist of ladoslov V that Denmark didn't have this
(07:41):
on our lottery card. Denmark has begun conscripting more citizens
into the army, men and women. It is co ed
they're doing this because they want to send troops to Greenland.
And this is a direct response to our president's statements
about acquiring Greenland.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Which he doubled down on again by the recently, I
think he posted an AI video or an AI image
of some kind, like showing it, you know, with an
American flag on it or something like that, or it
also might have been Canada can't get here.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Trump recently this is coming to us from August third.
We're recording. On August fifth, twenty twenty six, he was
speaking on something called Real America's Voice and the host
is a guy named Steve Gruber, and Steve Gruber, who
gets along famously with the President, had an on air
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prediction that Greenland would come under the control of the
United States before the current president left office, to which
he was reminded of this in his recent conversation, and
he said, you'll be right Greenland again, I'm not doing
the voice. Greenland is important from our standpoint, not from
their standpoint, but I almost got to the voice, but
(09:00):
from our standpoint, you should make that bet. Actually. And
then after that, on the heels of that conversation, Noel,
that's where he went on truth Social and had the
AI thing. It's a big giant looming over a town
on Greenland's east coast, and the caption is Hello Greenland
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exclamation mark.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
And also hey, well. He went on a bit of
a posting spree recently with a lot of these AI
generated images, and several of them included him in like
full military garb, which.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Just a good Win very small, not cool, not cool whatever. Honestly,
anybody at that level of politics. Let's avoid the tribalism.
If if a far left president was doing that, it
would still just be ridiculous. The thing is, while we
will take it as a ridiculous kind of maybe internet
(09:58):
trolling at the highest levels, I guess. So we have
to realize that Denmark takes this very very seriously. They
they are expanding conscription.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
So I forgive me, Ben, I don't think I fully
understand Denmark's relationship with Greenland.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Greenland is not an autonomous country. It is semi autonomous,
but it is under the auspice of Denmark.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Okay, So Denmark essentially it's under their protection. So like, okay,
so would making war with Greenland essentially also be making
war with Denmark?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
That's a question which would also mean are we making
war with NATO?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Right?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
How does our five come into play? Especially, you know,
given the Russian wet dream of destroying NATO from within?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah, that's not something they've been looking for for how
many years has it been?
Speaker 4 (11:02):
The Fatlin was foundation of geopolitics written, We've been at
this for a while. It is interesting because this doesn't
get widely reported in the West. Now, should you panic, right,
now conspiracy realist, I mean, yes, but not about this,
not quite about this, because conscription in Denmark is already
(11:24):
something that we have talked about as a potential advantage
for the United States if we had a similar system
in Denmark. You have mandatory conscription, you have service between
four to twelve months if you are physically fit, so
all men and women over the age of eighteen. They're
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expanding this, not by a ton of people, they're adding
They added sixteen hundred Danes residents of Denmark under this
new pro and then by twenty thirty three or so,
they're going to have about seven five hundred people getting drafted.
(12:09):
So not too many, but it appears that, yeah, it
appears that we were woefully correct about the rise in conscription.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I was in Denmark earlier this year and I was,
you know, checking out some of the palaces and historical sites,
and they have quite a military presence around some of
their big you know, historical palaces.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Absolutely absolutely, and Denmark is a lovely country. Get a
visit if you get a chance. Right, We perhaps will
have an episode on what's going on with the US
and Greenland in the future, so stay tuned for that.
In the meantime freight train. Could we just get an
(12:57):
interesting water soal any kind of water you like, Max
has wave into us there? Thank you, sir. I think
those were water fingers that we were seeing on the screen. Okay,
a lot of water fingers. Perfect. This is something that
is going to either pop back up in the news
(13:20):
later or it is going to be entirely ignored at
our collective peril. I think we all saw the news
because we're primed to look for conspiratorial stuff. But US
water facilities, there's another prediction we made in our previous
episode or some of our previous discussions on infrastructure. US
(13:41):
water facilities have indeed been targeted by what are described
as malicious cyber actors. Who is to blame. The White
House were specifically the Office of the President had originally
started blaming Tim Waltz and the state of Minnesota, but
(14:01):
federal authorities started saying this was a cyber attack from Aroan.
Have we all heard about this hitting the water?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah? Yeah, really creepy stuff, especially as we're also hearing
news about these what do they call rogue agents that
are being tested with things doing all kinds of wacka
do stuff and that's a lot of reporting has been
coming out about that lately. I do wonder sometimes if
one could claim cyber attack by enemy of the state
(14:35):
at any given point, at least for a time, you know, yeah, yeah,
exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
It's not that we cut the funding. It's those gosh
darn Persians, right, because it's that is the way people
would would phrase it. There was a statement that came out. Actually,
a great way to learn more about this, folks, is
to go to an article from The Guardian published on
August fourth by Nick Robbins Early and Dara Carer. They're
(15:07):
breaking down what is still happening and still very fog
of war. The attacks went hardest in Minnesota. Thirty of
its water systems were compromised. This led to low pressure
water flow. Also, this hurt wastewater treatment. There were boil
(15:27):
water notices. There haven't been any any reports of fatalities
related to water born contamination just yet, which is the
tikety boo right, good hustle everybody. But it looks like
it looks like the FEDS are saying that all water
(15:50):
treatment plants should be considered vectors of attack, that somebody
is coming for the US asymmetrically through the water stations.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
The next logical step is going to be, of course,
the power stations, which we also clocked, are you know,
in dire need of security.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Well, at least the data centers will have their own
power stations not connected.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
To the grid, so they'll be safe and they don't
need to drink pure water, so they're going to be fine.
We know that's the first question on everybody's mind, or the.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Second way are going to be Okay, first.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Where's job rule? Second? Second, what will happen to the
poor data centers? Uh? It's interesting though, guys, because Tran
is so far away. We know that doesn't matter in
a cyber war space, but if it is Iran, it
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would be be weird. Flex it's highly asymmetrical, and perhaps
it is some of the boffins or the war nerds
are saying that this is due to or this is
a natural response to US and Israeli attacks on various
pieces of Iranian infrastructure, which makes thematic sense.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Is Iran known for having a robust cyber you know,
attack capabilities.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
I mean, they're known for having the capabilities, but they're
not known for being an essay or Masaud level.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
It does seem like in this kind of high profile
conflict that's going on with you know, live missiles and
bombs being thrown around and hitting infrastructure and threats of
infrastructure and stuff like that, you might, as in Iran,
tap somebody who's a bit of an ally who is
proven at this kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Yeah, maybe called Daddy V.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Because it's definitely one guy that you could call.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
He's one guy that you could He's one guy you
could call. You text him and say water and he
text back goes LMAO on it. So maybe it's that simple,
but it is something to keep an eye on. We
don't have we don't have time to go entirely into this,
but we do have to know. You should be aware
(18:20):
of this, folks, and if you're in Minnesota, you probably
already know. Well, we're getting a lot of reports from
anonymous sources with information about the situation. The FBI has
stopped short of saying it is definitely a RAN, but
it also reminds me, guys of the tragic widespread hysteria
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at in the wake of nine to eleven when people
from very small towns in the Midwest. We're saying New
York first. We could be next, and it's praying on
that fear. We're creating a culture of fear in the country.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Dude, Well, do you really analytically, as a larger state actor,
no matter who it is, would you go for these
small towns first, or would you go for a New
York City's water supply. Even if New York City's water
supply is way more secure, you would still go for
that one first, because that is going to have impact
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the small town than visibility.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
You know, it's like to strike fear into the hearts
of the rest of the country.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
But if you go for the small town I'm in
this case, we're still getting visibility. That that was a
pretty big story. I saw that in multiple places about
the facilities being attacked, right, I just if I'm trying
to analyze it, it feels like it wouldn't be the move.
But maybe there's just something I'm not thinking about.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I guess that is being hitting a place like New
York is more of a show of force. It represents,
like you know, what they're capable of.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Yeah, the symbolism and this is okay, So to my mind,
not an expert here, to my mind, it likely depends
partially on symbolism, right, the thematic poetry of war and
the tit for tack, but it also, perhaps more importantly,
depends on operational practicality. So depending upon the type of
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attack that is that they're capable of deploying, they may
not be able to hit a New York City or
to hit a Los Angeles, but their attack may be
able to compromise other places with lower security. So it
might be a matter of just trying to grab the
apple you can reach on the tree.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Now, that makes a lot more sense, like, especially given
my question about like is this the thing that they're
like known for, you know, like maybe maybe their capabilities
are a little more in line with the smaller.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Fish, especially if you've got people on the ground that
could you know, gain access or already had access somewhere,
you know, depending on what country you are or what
force you are, I could see that working.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Yeah, we'd love to hear your thoughts on this one, folks,
especially if you have been infected conspiracy atiheartradio dot com
and you know what, throw it out there in the dark.
If you're behind the attacks and you want to hang out,
just email us. We don't have time to get to
an invasion story of Morocco versus Spain. But stay tuned
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for the end and we'll give you a teaser for that.
For now, obviously, we have to thank our super producer
Max the freight Train before we go to an ad break. Max,
thank you for verifying that we know where Job Rule is.
He will be in Chicago this Friday.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Oh nice that we finally solve the mystery.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Where is Job Rule. We don't know where he is
right now, but if you're in Chicago, tell him we said, hey,
this coming Friday.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Let's make sure to check the municipal water supplies out
there in Chicago before he arrives.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Yeah, that's why you're there, right, y'all. We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
And we're back before we jump into my prepared things today, guys,
I just wanted us to take a look at this
really quickly together if we can. And of course, because
I posted it that way in the chat, it won't
be easy to see.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I just saw this hit the Guardian. I guess it
was yesterday, but I didn't really look at it. Just
want to put this out there, have a quick discussion
if you don't mind. Here here's the story revealed major
oil firms make ninety three billion dollar profits amid war
and climate crisis.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I just want to put thing no more. How could be?
I don't understand the logistics of such a thing, Okay,
I like, like, of course they did.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Of course they did. It's it's one of the things
that we all are are aware of. We all though
we mentioned it a couple of weeks back, maybe gosh,
maybe even a whole month or when the Iran things started,
that somehow oil companies are making record profits while the
oil supplies are so choked off. And the way we
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think about oil supplies, where that where that crude oil
comes from, right, and where it gets shipped around and
then processed and all that stuff, and how the straight
of horror moves is really important for particular parts of
the world and for percentages of oil that come to
places like the US far far away. But there's oil
in a lot of places. And when the price of
oil goes up for whatever reason, the folks that make
(23:37):
the oil process the oil make booko bucks.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
I mean, that's what I was getting at. I mean,
there's all this talk about how much oil we produce
here in the United States, and then when you have
like such a global crisis like this, it almost feels
like an excuse to price gouge and capitalize on people's misery.
So I mean, it just seems like, of course they're
going to take advantage of stuff like that. And I
do like the sub line in this article that you
sent Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for
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companies cashing in on human misery to pay for environmental damage.
What a concept.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Check out our Raytheon episode as well, folks. And Iran
has accidentally become a guest on Tonight's Strange News because
Iran did something that other countries don't often do in
geopolitical conversations. They straight up said, we think the US
(24:33):
is crazy. The people in charge of it. These are
everything they're telling you about us reaching a deal is
not a deal, not with us. The real deals are
happening with US Allied corporations. Everything that they are telling
you the American public about a deal being reached or
the straight being peaceful again, it is entirely to manipulate
(24:57):
the markets. And here Iran is like Charlie Day in
Always Sunny in Philadelphia, with the conspiracy board. But the
thing is the stuff they're pointing to is quite literate
and quite true. They're saying, look at the timing of
all of these announcements and then overlay that with the
profits made by a certain connected group of investors as
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well as to the earlier point oil companies.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Did they do this in lego form?
Speaker 4 (25:26):
I think there's production. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Well they released these banger lego music videos, you know,
AI of course, but like they were dropping some serious
truth bombs and like pointing out some very real things,
problematic things going on with our government and kind of
clown and very successfully you know, the quote unquote master
deal makers on our end. I mean, look, think what
(25:53):
you will about Iran. They've got horrible human rights issues,
the problems there were not here to say that Iran,
good job. But it's like the way that our administration
and folks in power are kind of like overly demonizing them.
It's it's obviously a tactic to draw attention away from
these continual bait and switches that you know, they're crazy people,
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they don't know how to make a deal. It's it's
absolute horseshit.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
I I know that I'm going to get some heat
for saying this, folks, because it's a truth. People don't
want to acknowledge. There are no real good guys in
international relations. That's true, not at this level. And also
we have to acknowledge the painful, the painful fact sometimes
bad guys could be right about things right. Being right
(26:43):
about something doesn't make you inherently good, and being inherent
in being bad on any level doesn't make you inherently wrong.
So this is this is one of those cases. And
as far as we can tell, I don't want to
speak for everybody. As far as I can tell based
on what I'm reading through analysts and talking with people
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who are in some kind of adjacent industries, this market
manipulation will continue and once, regardless how things shake out
in the street or in this current conflict, in the
coming conflicts in the station sphere, regardless, the prices of
gas are like the high gas prices for the average
(27:28):
person in the United States. They'll go down a little,
but they're not going to plummet. Companies are not going
to give that up, just like grocery stores with COVID prices.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
No, guys, do you think the pretense of Iran can
never have a nuclear weapon is going to go down
in history similarly to the weapons of mass destruction that
led to the Iraq War, just like as a pretense
to do the thing that allowed them to do exactly
what they wanted in terms of this kind of opportunity
for market manipulation and price goal and you know, especially
(28:02):
the sticky relationship in the involvement in Israel and all that.
I just feel like, when did that, all of a sudden,
overnight become the problem the problem? Well, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Yeah, yeah, no, I hear you, and Matt. I don't
want to derail us too far, but this is a
subject of intense interest for some of us in the crowd.
Your question and comparison is great there, no, because the
difference is that we know, I want to be very
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diplomatic here, we know for a fact that certain factions
of the Iranian government very much do want offensive nuclear weaponry.
And part of the reason we know that is because
it's been confirmed by spoopy dupes. And another thing that
is really it falls at the feet of the United
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States and the West. There is established precedent that once
you obtain offensive nuclear weaponry, even if it's crap like
in the DPRK. Even if they don't have a realistic
way to deploy it, other nations will treat you much
more delicately, right, That's why I mean, look at Libya,
(29:15):
look at what happened when they step back their nuclear program.
So that is a that is to a lot of
people who are world leaders, who might be considered frenemies
of the West, that is a clear textbook case for
the class. And so the West will do everything to
(29:35):
prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weaponry. But Iran, or again diplomatically,
factions of the Iranian government will do everything they can
to hit that inflection point, and they may well see
it as a matter of survival for the regime.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Time you want to see how these two things are connected, No,
the weapons of masses instruction push into Iraq and the
current Iran conflict, all you have to do is go
back to June ninth, nineteen ninety two, check out ABC
News Nightline hosted by Ted Copple, and you can learn
all about how the Reagan administration and the Bush Senior
(30:19):
administration were allowing all kinds of things to move into Iraq,
including money, including technology, technology that could be used as
a tool and as a weapon, as well as chemical,
chemical weapons and conventional weapons. We were giving a ton
of stuff to Iraq because you know who they were
(30:41):
in conflict with Iran. Yeah, and you can just see
if you look at the history of these things, and
especially Western involvement in the Middle East, you can see
how everything goes way, way, way back, and then if
you think you found the end of it, it goes
back even further. So you would just recommend you check
that stuff out and look at history if you're interested
(31:04):
in these things, if you're interested in how and why,
major oil companies a Ramco, BP Shell, Equanor, Total energies E,
NI Chevron and Exon Mobile made more than seven hundred
thousand dollars of profit every minute in the spring quarter.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Yeah, and this is this is one of those things
that will be a wild ride, folks. If you want
to learn more, we have some books we can recommend,
we can send you some links and so on. But
it is not something you should you should you should
learn about on TikTok. To be quite honest, it's gonna
(31:47):
mean it goes, like Matt was saying, deeper and deeper
and deeper into.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
The soil, find a book so they can't know that
you're reading about it, and then read it in a
dark place with.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
A flashlight, just uh under the covers potentially.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Yeah, yeah, you're faraday r F I d Y.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Yeah, just because it's you know, it's this is the
real dangerous stuff to know about and to think about
and then have conversations about. Genuinely, I'd love to trade books.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Yeah, I'd love to hear hear from some folks on
the ground. We know some of you were working in
the fossil fuel industry and we're happy you survived. We
we'd love to hear.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
From you and Matt.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
One big note we have to make is when you
are reading books about this, even if they write, even
if they come recommended by us, make very sure they're
not AI. Now.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I know this was that your main thing, but thanks
for indulging us. This is like a red red red
meat for us to to you know, chew on. But
I think your main thing involved what is it? Google Earth? Right?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Oh? Oh yes, Max, if you don't mind, If you
don't mind, could you please set the tone for this piece.
I'm gonna read from news from Google, the official Google Blog.
A post that was written on July thirtieth, twenty twenty six,
just set the tone. This is all coming from Brian Horowitz,
product manager of Google Earth. Here it goes. Have you
(33:21):
ever looked at an empty lot in your neighborhood and
imagined a community garden, or wondered what your city looked
like a century ago. Well now Nano Banana two's image
generation capabilities can show you both and so much more.
In Google Earth for the first time, you can generate
(33:43):
custom images using Google Earth satellite, aerial and three D
imagery alongside Nano Banana, which creates concepts grounded in the
real world. Just zoom into a place in Google Earth,
tap create image, and type whatever you want to see. Guys,
(34:04):
I'm assuming we all saw this story yes before. Before
we get into what happened next again, this was on
the thirtieth of July. This was posted as well as
the It was posted with the launch of this new
thing that you could do with Nano Banana and Google Earth.
Before we really talk about the consequences and what has occurred.
Do we see any problems with having AI image generation
(34:28):
built directly into a platform like Google Earth having.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
To go with yes, Yeah, it does seem kind of
counter to the purpose of a thing like that that's
supposed to, you know, just report the truth, I guess,
or represents what the actual earth looks like like I
don't know. Okay, where does AI image generation even fit
intoto a product like that?
Speaker 4 (34:50):
You could also, for instance, and I'm referencing New York
Times here, you could also do what some journalists did
in a very short window time. I think it was
like within twenty four hours, people were making depictions of
refugee camps along a long conflict ridden borders. They were
(35:12):
showing cities that looked like they were flooded, right, acts
of terror, natural disasters, doing stuff like here's an actual
nuclear power plant in a country that's not supposed to
have one. So they weren't, however, the ad went, they
weren't making pretty gardens and saying what if I did landscaping?
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Uh? Yeah, that is one of the things that Google
suggested you do. Look at an open, empty lot and
then visualize what it would look like with a specific
home in there, or if you renovated it for something,
or let's say, maybe built a million square foot data
center facility. You could do all that stuff right and
generate it with just a couple of words, and then
(35:55):
nano Banana two would do its thing and loop.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
There you go to say, that's a really stupid name.
I'm just sorry. Continue.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
It does seem like it.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
To me.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
You're you're hitting on the right things there have been
about what occurred. Google, to their credit, I suppose, had
this to say we take misinformation seriously. Every image created
with nano banana in Google Earth includes the synth id
digital water mark, so if someone is unsure about an image,
they can ask Gemini or use lens in search to
(36:32):
see if the image was AI generated.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Matt, can I raise my hand really quickly. This is
the first I've heard of any of this kind of watermark,
and I think I've floated the idea we all have
of like, in order to differentiate, you know, this the
fake news and AI generated stuff, there has to be
some way of confirming whether or not something was like captured,
you know, physically with like a lens, or whether it
was created. This is fascinating to me. I do like
(36:57):
that that exists. I know there's sort of talking about
it as a bit of a pr move as to
say no, don't worry. We're actually we've got this covered.
But I would love to talk a little bit more
about how that kind of watermark could be used more
widely in a way would be useful to average folks
outside of the Gemini ecosystem.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Well, here in lies the problem, I think, because a
watermark is great, and when we say watermark we mean
something that is visual on the image as well as
digitally written into the image in the code. Right, these
are the two ways that you could do this. The
problem is with all of these various AI tools, one
(37:38):
of the things you can do is remove watermarks with them.
And often when wenter well and often when we encounter
images on social media, it isn't the original file that
has been uploaded that would have that digital ID marker
in it or something like that. If you're talking about metadata,
(37:59):
it's going to be a screen shot often, or it's
going to be an image that was taken in turned
into a PSD or something, or an illustrator image and
then turned back into a PNG or a JPEG or
something like that, and then maybe even screenshoted and then
uploaded so or a screen capture, right, or it just
could be anything it's often not the original thing that
(38:21):
gets up there, and you can read reporting. I'll just
go to let's see, let's pull from the ars Technica
article written on July thirty first about this titled Google
Earth risked ruin with retracted AI tool for making fake
satellite picks, which is just letting everybody know if you
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haven't already seen this in the news. Google the day
after they posted this blog post that we did our
fun little thing with, they retracted this tool and they said, no,
we're not doing it, it's.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Not Instagram did something similar. They retracted an AI tool
that allowed any user to essentially remix other users' images
using AI and then repost it. I can't remember exactly
the details, but it was an example of like the
very next day after announcing it, they pulled it back
because of so much public backlash.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Yep, yep. It is because of the things that Ben
was talking about there there. In this Arts Technica article,
you learn about someone named henk Van s HG nk
Va n E s S. This is an independent investigator
who used the nano banana two stuff in Google Earth
to create all kinds of things. Ben, I think you
(39:35):
mentioned a few of them, and there was a particular
things he did. But here's a quote from him. I
planted a nuclear plant in Iran. I put a fatal
crash on a street in Amsterdam. The other thing he
did is what you mentioned ben putting refugees near the
Mexican border, and he says, I used Google's own satellite
imagery underneath all three of these. What on earth is
(39:57):
Google doing?
Speaker 3 (39:58):
There's no place for it. It's another example of shoehorning
AI into places that absolutely doesn't belong. Not only does
it not belong there, it could cause some serious harm.
But it's just that like whole need to just put
it in everything, and nobody wants it.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
That's absolutely what's happening. It's attempting to create a need,
and it's because there has already been overleveraged investment into
something that a lot of consumers simply don't care for.
So I can see to your point, Noel. I can
see a boardroom saying, all right, we got all this AI,
(40:36):
we can't wait to play with it, and the dev
ty the project managers are going yeah, but our data
and the marketing folks are going, yeah, but our data
shows that people aren't really vibing with it, but we'll
find a way to use it. Yes, their salute, and
the boardroom cheers and the shareholders get all happy slappy,
(40:59):
and then the poor developers say, I guess we could
stick it here. I guess we'll put it where we
think it has the least likelihood of being catastrophically evil.
And so they did their best. I hope that doesn't
sound too conspiratorial, but it feels like no fair assessment.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
I think it is. I think it is. I'm going
to I'm gonna say this last thing that we'll get
out of here. Here's something that ours did, our s Tegnaica.
They used a phone with its camera to take a
photo of a screen that had a one of these
Google Earth generated images, and then they tried to put
it through SYNTHID, the thing that's supposed to detect if
(41:39):
it's an image created with AI, and it was unable
to figure out if that thing was created with AI
or not. Just a reminder as we're encountering social media
from now on, it's going to be really hard to know.
Speaker 4 (42:00):
Was truth civilization the end of history?
Speaker 3 (42:04):
I know, I know how naive I came out talking about,
but the water mark. That's all we need now, of
course you can get rid I mean it would be well,
I just mean it's something we've talked about where like
ideally there would be it seems like these things are
getting so good that you can't even like run them
through these checkers anymore. So it would stand to reason
(42:25):
that you would need to have something embedded that could
not be removed, that could then be used to trace
the origin, you know, of of the footage, like a
pixel or whatever. But some of that there's ways of
getting rid of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Of course, there's one last conspiratorial thing here when you
talk about the motivation of why in the hell would
Google decide to do this, there's something that s points
out in this Artist Technica article or he was talking
about it and ours was talking about it. I'm just
gonna read this for band. It could have handed an
(42:57):
additional excuse to government officials or anyone one who wants
to deny genuine satellite photos by claiming they were modified
or generated entirely with those AI tools that were available
in Google Earth. Not that they can't do that with
other AI generative tools.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Right.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
You could take a screenshot or an image or a
video you create in Google Earth and then use AI
to do overlays like it would just take more steps
to get it done to have a you know, native
version of it could have. You could create these things
really fast, and you could make claims. Even if it's
a genuine satellite image of something that you don't want
(43:34):
people to see, you can claim that it's not real.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
We're seeing that happen with even reporting on scandals and
stuff and like, you know, claiming that photos were doctored,
And of course in the past that was certainly on
the table, but now it's just more easy than ever
to you know, muddy the waters of public opinion by
by claiming something was AI. You know, it's it's it's
it's bad.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
News, and what are you gonna do about it? We're
gonna take a break. We'll be right back with more
strange news.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
And we returned with our final strange news segment. Guys,
I thought I wouldn't need to say exactly we're ending
on good news here, but we're looking on a well
that's not true. Okay, you know what. I'll lead with
the good news, and it is sort of on theme
for the other stories I'm talking about Vietnamese doctor or
Vietnamese doctors rather perform first successful penis transplant on forty
three year old man, the Shipian has undergone a partial
(44:33):
and guys, I didn't know this is a word, but
here it goes p neck to me. Four years ago
he had and was struggling as only a small portion
of the organ remained. But they've now done successfully a
penis transplant using an organ from a donor who had
experienced brain death. So the recipient, a forty three year
(44:54):
old man, had already underwent, like I said, a partial
p neck to me at Hanoi's Viet Duke Friendship Hospital.
After taking a look at his medical condition and his
immune capacity, psychological health, and considering the ethics of the procedure,
a team of specialists decided that he would be a
suitable candidate for a full transplant. Penectomy this is coming
(45:18):
from the Independent. By the way, is a surgical procedure
involving the partial or complete removal of the penis. This
is from Yale Medicine. It is typically performed as a
treatment for penile cancer as part of gender affirming surgery
for transgender individuals. An Associate professor by the name of
doctor Win Qwang, who's the director of the hospital's andrology center,
(45:39):
said that the operation involved rebuilding key structures of the
penis while reconnecting tiny blood vessels and nerves through what's
called microsurgery. And this is what he said about it.
In this transplant procedure, we reconstructed the anatomical structures of
the penis, including the urethra, corpus spongiosum, all kinds of
fun new terms today, and pora cavernosa, while simultaneously performing
(46:03):
microsurgical anastomosis of minute arteries, veins, and nerves. And so
this constitute's not the first ever penis transplant in the world,
but one of only six successful penis transplants globally, and
the first ever in the nation of Vietnam.
Speaker 4 (46:20):
And folks, we I mean, first off, congratulations, but stay safe. Secondly,
congratulations to the doctors. Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, we
know that these are dangerous procedures and there have been
a lot of people who have died as a result
of what could sometimes be called reconstructive surgery, or sometimes
(46:45):
called cosmetic or vanity related surgery. I'm thinking of oh
what was his name? A few years back Oh it was.
It was a billionaire named hud are La Niado. So
this guy had everything in the world, what financially budd
he died in a penis operation.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
H I like how you're pretending that that came off
the top of your dome bend.
Speaker 4 (47:14):
I do remember these.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
I'm not an expert that like. Ask me about nuclear
proliferation and I can freestyle, but ask me about penis
surgery and I have to look it up.
Speaker 3 (47:25):
Thank you. Then I'm sorry. I think you mean pen
nectary p necto.
Speaker 4 (47:28):
Yeah, gotta got a lot that I don't want to learn.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
Oh, guys, I don't say this very often, but if
for whatever reason I go, you can have my penis.
Speaker 3 (47:41):
Thank you, or whoever whoever has a need arived.
Speaker 4 (47:48):
That's all for you. No, all right, thanks for your service. Please.
If I if I wasn't going to be shot into space,
then you guys could have my junk.
Speaker 3 (47:58):
To ben And also, like in writing, you giving up
your claim to Matt's penis never made it okay, Just so,
just so we're all above board, Jordan oral contract state.
Speaker 4 (48:14):
But I'm saying it on air.
Speaker 3 (48:16):
Yeah. Second, I'm a penis segregation No it's true, and guys,
I wanted to lead with this because it is good news.
We're very happy for this gentleman in Vietnam. We're a
little concerned about a couple of other dudes that also
have penises and that had them out in some very
unusual occurrences. The first one in all is a forty
(48:37):
four year old man just one year Wait, no, the
same exact age is the man who got the penis transplant. Coincidence,
now forty three, one year older. I think so coincidence.
A man forty four has been charged after jumping fully
nude more than two hundred feet off of the Brooklyn
Bridge into the water below, where he survived. A man
(49:00):
by the name of glaizem A baile Dayev was seen
climbing the I guess what she would call the kind
of arches in the center of the bridge. Once he
got to the top, he apparently jumped in. He let's see,
was rescued by the New York Police Department's Harbor Unit
(49:23):
and is being charged with multiple offenses if you can imagine,
including reckless endangerment and perhaps one stemming from his nudity.
But let's see. His roommate claimed that he was inspired
by others who did the same thing last month, alleging
that he had planned to do it on his birthday
in his birthday suit. I don't know, guys, I hadn't
(49:45):
heard about this happening last month. Let's see if we
can find some details on that. The event occurred around
two thirty pm, so the middle of the day on
August the second Sunday. Let's see, he was spotted on
top of a bri ridge tower yeat one of those arches,
and according to a photo of the man that was
obtained by NBC News, he could be seen in a
(50:06):
blue shirt and shorts with a large square shaped backpack
on his back as he climbed to the top. He
disrobed at the top. He did not make the climb nude.
I think it's an important detail to remember. So he
had a backpack and two flags with him during the incident.
Officials didn't share additional details as to what was going
on with the flags. He reportedly then stripped down and
(50:30):
then jumped into the East River, which, by the way, guys,
rail dirty East River not a good place to bathe
even in like a wetsuit. Swimming rivers now people do
like boat and jet ski and stuff. But yeah, they
would be wearing full wetsuits. Let's see, he allegedly jumped
(50:52):
once officers had already arrived at the scene. He was
rescued as mentioned by the NYPD's Harbor Unit, and is
transferred to a local hospital. So it appear that he
sustained some injuries as you would imagine with a jump.
I mean, guys hitting the water from that height fully new.
I don't know unless you're just like some sort of
(51:12):
expert diver and you can one of those guys that
like gets the ten out of ten with the little
they hold up the number and makes no splash. That
was smart. Hitting water from that height is kind of
tan amount to like hitting the ground concrete.
Speaker 4 (51:27):
Yeah, you can hit. You can break your legs, you
can break your spine or your neck. I remember doing
some research on this for a for a different initiative,
and the amount of people who unsuccessfully attempt to take
their own lives by jumping off a bridge is staggering.
(51:47):
It'll leave them with lifelong injuries and without you know,
being too serious at this point, folks, please do check
out the statistics which will prove to you that the
vast majority of people who make that jump regret it
and don't think it was a good decision.
Speaker 3 (52:07):
There's a documentary that I never watched because it just
seemed too sad, but it's called The Bridge and it
was about how very many folks have attempted to take
their own lives jumping off of the San Francisco Bay Bridge.
Speaker 2 (52:23):
That's a harrowing documentary.
Speaker 4 (52:25):
It's very well done.
Speaker 3 (52:26):
If I've heard it is if I may. The charges
here are listed, and they're they're quite interesting. A couple
of them that I don't fully understand, but most of
them I definitely do. Reckless endangerment, check public lewdness. Okay,
check criminal trespass. Got it, that makes sense. It's early conduct.
And here's the one that I don't quite get. Graffiti.
(52:49):
Did he pee on the way?
Speaker 2 (52:50):
That was?
Speaker 3 (52:50):
I was gonna ask them, and is that consider graffiti
or is that public? There is there another charge?
Speaker 4 (52:56):
Did he write anything when he got to the town.
Speaker 3 (52:58):
No, we know he had these flats, but unclear as
to what this graffiti charge was stemming from.
Speaker 2 (53:05):
Do you guys ever do a high dive like at
a public pool or an you.
Speaker 3 (53:09):
Know, it's one of those things guys. I think I've
mentioned like I do like roller coasters, but if I
don't go on one for a while, I almost have
to reacclimate myself to them. Like I'll go to the
amusement park six Flags around here and like start with
the kiddy coasters and work my way up. I would
have to do the very same thing with a high dive.
I would have to like first jump off the edge,
then do the regular dive, then maybe the medium would
(53:30):
then finally, hopefully I would be brave enough to do
the high dive. But those are scary too, and they
hurt if you had land weird, no question about it.
Speaker 2 (53:37):
See. I remember, I think it was the Will's Park
pool in Alfaretta when I was a kid, and it
was it had a high dive in it, and I
specifically remember it was. It's like, you know, there are
different sizes like with the Olympics and things like that,
thirty three feet and just how terrifying that is to jump. Yeah. Sorry,
(54:03):
Max's chiming in saying he remembers the grotto when we
were in Bahamar, and.
Speaker 3 (54:07):
Even that was us Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (54:10):
It wasn't quite high dive level, but it was so
high up, but it was h.
Speaker 3 (54:13):
Enough for me to be a little spooked. And I
know exactly the kind of diving board you're talking about, Matt,
And this is two hundred and seventy two feet above
the wall, you know. Terrifying guys. I've got one quick
one to end with today, involving another incident of a
nudeman doing something weird, as nude men tend to do
(54:34):
in public. This one involves a guy who crashed his
car into a church in Detroit and claimed that he
was the second coming of Jesus Christ. Can't make this
stuff up, That's all I got. I will say this, though.
There's some great stuff on Reddit about best nudeman claiming
to be Jesus crashed his car into Detroit church. A
(54:57):
naked man having a mental health crisis crashed car into
the Liberty Temple Baptist church on Detroit's West side. And
then just some of the comments. First one from Jazz
Like Strength says, prove he's not Jesus, simple floatshart. Someone responds,
do his hands whistle when he sticks them out the
car windows? No? Not Jesus? Wow? Get it? Because he's
(55:18):
got Yes? Yeah, yeah, Someone give him a bottle of
water and see what he can do. First, check his
driver's license and make sure it's real ID. It's the
only way to be sure. My upstairs tenant woke me
up one night because there were cops outside. A guy
had ripped the antenna of my Lincoln town car and
was fencing with the cops, claiming to be Jesus. This
(55:40):
guy gets around and last one. That will be the
last time they asked Jesus to take the wheel.
Speaker 2 (55:50):
That is for me.
Speaker 4 (55:51):
Guys, Yeah, yeah, ed folks, thank you as always for
tuning in. As we said, this is Earth Day season
for your conspiracy boys and entities. We hope you're having
a wonderful August. I'm not gonna let this this anti
(56:11):
new propaganda pass though, Noel, you do need to know, folks,
a Florida steakhouse will let you eat for free if
you dine in the nude. So shout out to Hollywood,
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Speaker 3 (56:25):
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(56:50):
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So much stuff is going on. We love to begin
and end this segment with some good news. So as
you know, folks, we are over stuff they want you to know.
We have been intensely interested in the looming problem of microplastics,
and guys, we got some good news just a few
days ago.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I could notice it, Ben and the doc it just
spoke to me. It was it made me feel very
good inside. Tell us all about it.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Oh yes, this comes to us from the American Chemical Society.
They have officially verified that researchers are creating what they
call a self destructing living plastic that completely breaks down
in just six days and leaves no microplastics behind.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
So it's biodegradable basically, and it's the same structural integrity
as plastic and the same ability to kind of shape
it do all the plasticky things that we've come to
love so well.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Yeah, it uses a sciencey a mad side and see
engineered bacteria that can completely break down when it is
activated living plastics. That is where we're that's where we're
headed for the future. If you want to learn more,
you can check out a study published in ACS Applied
(02:17):
Polymer Materials super Sexy trade publication. You can also read
a breakdown of this on Science Daily. But as we'll
see in tonight's Strange News, probably good to have some
positive stuff at the beginning and the end. Also, just
side note, we don't have to spend a bunch of
(02:39):
time on it, folks. But RFK Junior wants everybody to
know that he does not have a gag reflex.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Really helpful. Yes, eating all kinds of gutty parts just
for fun is an odd way of framing that, though,
that he'll eat anything for that reason. I think it
was the Potsave American Guys pointed out that he could
have just said I have a very adventurous palette or
I like to try new things, but framing it in
terms of a lack of a gag reflex does make
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the mind wander elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
But he's trying to let everybody know.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, well he's just you know, just if you happen
to be in the neighborhood he is. His exact quote
comes from a conversation with USA Today where he is
promoting his new YouTube show, which is all about cooking.
By the way, because it's twenty twenty six, that's where
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we live in It's called The Real, Real Food Show.
And we'll give you just this quote. We're not going
to do the voice out of respect. I will literally
eat anything. I don't have a gag reflex. Let me
put it like that. I will eat anything. And I
love experimenting with foods. I love all different kinds of foods.
When I travel, I'll eat, you know, even stuff I
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find on the street.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
What I didn't see that extended.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
There's a street vendors. I'm being unfair, and I know
that that is gonna sound very strange.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Oh so he just doesn't eat half eaten hot dogs
that he finds like an alleyways, although I wouldn't put
it past him, and he may or may not gargle
with rocks. Also, apparently there is a diet that he
is promoting that some of the cabinet members and himself
have apparently been enjoying. It's like all meat and fermented foods.
(04:27):
And apparently there's I can't remember who was, there's a
doctor involved in in the you know, promotion of this
particular diet who said that it will cause you to
take poops that you don't have to wipe that feel
borderline or gasmic. Right, I'm gonna leave that there.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
And folks, again, look, if you if you hear that
recitation I did out in the wild, please remember it
is a quote. It is not me saying any of that,
not that there's anything wrong with not having a gag reflex.
How do get out of this hole? You guys? I say,
we take a break for a word from our sponsors,
(05:13):
and we have returned with again some strange news that
is not making it or not making as much of
a wave as it should in the West or in
your favorite mainstream media. Guys, remember, not too too long ago,
we did an episode on conscription, and this was triggered
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by signals that US management was sending about possibly reinstating
the draft.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Remember that one, Yeah, yeah, I do, Ben, I'm so sorry.
I don't want to derail. We were talking about Secretary
Kennedy and the YouTube and I guess all of his
socials are sec sec Kennedy. And if you've if you
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just pronounce it or say it out, it looks like
it says second to d Does it really does?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
That's the kind of hominem we love.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Also, just point out that the Milk video where he's
working out with Kid Rock and it says hole raw milk.
Just take a look at that one and notice the
font that is used and then what it resembles.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, I'm so sorry to derail.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
We were talking about conscription though, do you guys And
that's a it's a great point about second and d
uh do uh? Do you guys remember the conscription episode
about the draft? Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Of course, I mean it was. It's something that has
been looming large lately and was definitely something that I
think all of us were thinking about when we were younger,
But it seemed sort of like a little bit more ephemeral,
and now it's starting to feel a little bit more
you know, eminent.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
And one one day we will be correct about predicting
a good thing. Today is not that, Dave now not
august ted this. We predicted another not great thing. It
is related to well, we'll give you the headline first here, folks.
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Remember we talked about how conscription would outside of the
United States. It would definitely increase or be reinstated in
other parts of the world, other global conflict theaters. We
are able to confirm now thanks to military NYE and
the journalist of ladoslov V that Denmark didn't have this
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on our lottery card. Denmark has begun conscripting more citizens
into the army, men and women. It is co ed
they're doing this because they want to send troops to Greenland.
And this is a direct response to our president's statements
about acquiring Greenland.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Which he doubled down on again by the recently, I
think he posted an AI video or an AI image
of some kind, like showing it, you know, with an
American flag on it or something like that, or it
also might have been Canada can't get here.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Trump recently this is coming to us from August third.
We're recording. On August fifth, twenty twenty six, he was
speaking on something called Real America's Voice and the host
is a guy named Steve Gruber, and Steve Gruber, who
gets along famously with the President, had an on air
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prediction that Greenland would come under the control of the
United States before the current president left office, to which
he was reminded of this in his recent conversation, and
he said, you'll be right Greenland again, I'm not doing
the voice. Greenland is important from our standpoint, not from
their standpoint, but I almost got to the voice, but
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from our standpoint, you should make that bet. Actually. And
then after that, on the heels of that conversation, Noel,
that's where he went on truth Social and had the
AI thing. It's a big giant looming over a town
on Greenland's east coast, and the caption is Hello Greenland
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exclamation mark.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
And also hey, well. He went on a bit of
a posting spree recently with a lot of these AI
generated images, and several of them included him in like
full military garb, which.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Just a good Win very small, not cool, not cool whatever. Honestly,
anybody at that level of politics. Let's avoid the tribalism.
If if a far left president was doing that, it
would still just be ridiculous. The thing is, while we
will take it as a ridiculous kind of maybe internet
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trolling at the highest levels, I guess. So we have
to realize that Denmark takes this very very seriously. They
they are expanding conscription.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
So I forgive me, Ben, I don't think I fully
understand Denmark's relationship with Greenland.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Greenland is not an autonomous country. It is semi autonomous,
but it is under the auspice of Denmark.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Okay, So Denmark essentially it's under their protection. So like, okay,
so would making war with Greenland essentially also be making
war with Denmark?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
That's a question which would also mean are we making
war with NATO?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Right?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
How does our five come into play? Especially, you know,
given the Russian wet dream of destroying NATO from within?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah, that's not something they've been looking for for how
many years has it been?
Speaker 4 (11:02):
The Fatlin was foundation of geopolitics written, We've been at
this for a while. It is interesting because this doesn't
get widely reported in the West. Now, should you panic, right,
now conspiracy realist, I mean, yes, but not about this,
not quite about this, because conscription in Denmark is already
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something that we have talked about as a potential advantage
for the United States if we had a similar system
in Denmark. You have mandatory conscription, you have service between
four to twelve months if you are physically fit, so
all men and women over the age of eighteen. They're
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expanding this, not by a ton of people, they're adding
They added sixteen hundred Danes residents of Denmark under this
new pro and then by twenty thirty three or so,
they're going to have about seven five hundred people getting drafted.
(12:09):
So not too many, but it appears that, yeah, it
appears that we were woefully correct about the rise in conscription.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I was in Denmark earlier this year and I was,
you know, checking out some of the palaces and historical sites,
and they have quite a military presence around some of
their big you know, historical palaces.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Absolutely absolutely, and Denmark is a lovely country. Get a
visit if you get a chance. Right, We perhaps will
have an episode on what's going on with the US
and Greenland in the future, so stay tuned for that.
In the meantime freight train. Could we just get an
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interesting water soal any kind of water you like, Max
has wave into us there? Thank you, sir. I think
those were water fingers that we were seeing on the screen. Okay,
a lot of water fingers. Perfect. This is something that
is going to either pop back up in the news
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later or it is going to be entirely ignored at
our collective peril. I think we all saw the news
because we're primed to look for conspiratorial stuff. But US
water facilities, there's another prediction we made in our previous
episode or some of our previous discussions on infrastructure. US
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water facilities have indeed been targeted by what are described
as malicious cyber actors. Who is to blame. The White
House were specifically the Office of the President had originally
started blaming Tim Waltz and the state of Minnesota, but
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federal authorities started saying this was a cyber attack from Aroan.
Have we all heard about this hitting the water?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah? Yeah, really creepy stuff, especially as we're also hearing
news about these what do they call rogue agents that
are being tested with things doing all kinds of wacka
do stuff and that's a lot of reporting has been
coming out about that lately. I do wonder sometimes if
one could claim cyber attack by enemy of the state
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at any given point, at least for a time, you know, yeah, yeah,
exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
It's not that we cut the funding. It's those gosh
darn Persians, right, because it's that is the way people
would would phrase it. There was a statement that came out. Actually,
a great way to learn more about this, folks, is
to go to an article from The Guardian published on
August fourth by Nick Robbins Early and Dara Carer. They're
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breaking down what is still happening and still very fog
of war. The attacks went hardest in Minnesota. Thirty of
its water systems were compromised. This led to low pressure
water flow. Also, this hurt wastewater treatment. There were boil
(15:27):
water notices. There haven't been any any reports of fatalities
related to water born contamination just yet, which is the
tikety boo right, good hustle everybody. But it looks like
it looks like the FEDS are saying that all water
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treatment plants should be considered vectors of attack, that somebody
is coming for the US asymmetrically through the water stations.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
The next logical step is going to be, of course,
the power stations, which we also clocked, are you know,
in dire need of security.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Well, at least the data centers will have their own
power stations not connected.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
To the grid, so they'll be safe and they don't
need to drink pure water, so they're going to be fine.
We know that's the first question on everybody's mind, or the.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Second way are going to be Okay, first.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Where's job rule? Second? Second, what will happen to the
poor data centers? Uh? It's interesting though, guys, because Tran
is so far away. We know that doesn't matter in
a cyber war space, but if it is Iran, it
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would be be weird. Flex it's highly asymmetrical, and perhaps
it is some of the boffins or the war nerds
are saying that this is due to or this is
a natural response to US and Israeli attacks on various
pieces of Iranian infrastructure, which makes thematic sense.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Is Iran known for having a robust cyber you know,
attack capabilities.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
I mean, they're known for having the capabilities, but they're
not known for being an essay or Masaud level.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
It does seem like in this kind of high profile
conflict that's going on with you know, live missiles and
bombs being thrown around and hitting infrastructure and threats of
infrastructure and stuff like that, you might, as in Iran,
tap somebody who's a bit of an ally who is
proven at this kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Yeah, maybe called Daddy V.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Because it's definitely one guy that you could call.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
He's one guy that you could He's one guy you
could call. You text him and say water and he
text back goes LMAO on it. So maybe it's that simple,
but it is something to keep an eye on. We
don't have we don't have time to go entirely into this,
but we do have to know. You should be aware
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of this, folks, and if you're in Minnesota, you probably
already know. Well, we're getting a lot of reports from
anonymous sources with information about the situation. The FBI has
stopped short of saying it is definitely a RAN, but
it also reminds me, guys of the tragic widespread hysteria
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at in the wake of nine to eleven when people
from very small towns in the Midwest. We're saying New
York first. We could be next, and it's praying on
that fear. We're creating a culture of fear in the country.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Dude, Well, do you really analytically, as a larger state actor,
no matter who it is, would you go for these
small towns first, or would you go for a New
York City's water supply. Even if New York City's water
supply is way more secure, you would still go for
that one first, because that is going to have impact
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the small town than visibility.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
You know, it's like to strike fear into the hearts
of the rest of the country.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
But if you go for the small town I'm in
this case, we're still getting visibility. That that was a
pretty big story. I saw that in multiple places about
the facilities being attacked, right, I just if I'm trying
to analyze it, it feels like it wouldn't be the move.
But maybe there's just something I'm not thinking about.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I guess that is being hitting a place like New
York is more of a show of force. It represents,
like you know, what they're capable of.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Yeah, the symbolism and this is okay, So to my mind,
not an expert here, to my mind, it likely depends
partially on symbolism, right, the thematic poetry of war and
the tit for tack, but it also, perhaps more importantly,
depends on operational practicality. So depending upon the type of
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attack that is that they're capable of deploying, they may
not be able to hit a New York City or
to hit a Los Angeles, but their attack may be
able to compromise other places with lower security. So it
might be a matter of just trying to grab the
apple you can reach on the tree.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Now, that makes a lot more sense, like, especially given
my question about like is this the thing that they're
like known for, you know, like maybe maybe their capabilities
are a little more in line with the smaller.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Fish, especially if you've got people on the ground that
could you know, gain access or already had access somewhere,
you know, depending on what country you are or what
force you are, I could see that working.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Yeah, we'd love to hear your thoughts on this one, folks,
especially if you have been infected conspiracy atiheartradio dot com
and you know what, throw it out there in the dark.
If you're behind the attacks and you want to hang out,
just email us. We don't have time to get to
an invasion story of Morocco versus Spain. But stay tuned
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for the end and we'll give you a teaser for that.
For now, obviously, we have to thank our super producer
Max the freight Train before we go to an ad break. Max,
thank you for verifying that we know where Job Rule is.
He will be in Chicago this Friday.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Oh nice that we finally solve the mystery.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Where is Job Rule. We don't know where he is
right now, but if you're in Chicago, tell him we said, hey,
this coming Friday.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Let's make sure to check the municipal water supplies out
there in Chicago before he arrives.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Yeah, that's why you're there, right, y'all. We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
And we're back before we jump into my prepared things today, guys,
I just wanted us to take a look at this
really quickly together if we can. And of course, because
I posted it that way in the chat, it won't
be easy to see.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I just saw this hit the Guardian. I guess it
was yesterday, but I didn't really look at it. Just
want to put this out there, have a quick discussion
if you don't mind. Here here's the story revealed major
oil firms make ninety three billion dollar profits amid war
and climate crisis.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I just want to put thing no more. How could be?
I don't understand the logistics of such a thing, Okay,
I like, like, of course they did.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Of course they did. It's it's one of the things
that we all are are aware of. We all though
we mentioned it a couple of weeks back, maybe gosh,
maybe even a whole month or when the Iran things started,
that somehow oil companies are making record profits while the
oil supplies are so choked off. And the way we
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think about oil supplies, where that where that crude oil
comes from, right, and where it gets shipped around and
then processed and all that stuff, and how the straight
of horror moves is really important for particular parts of
the world and for percentages of oil that come to
places like the US far far away. But there's oil
in a lot of places. And when the price of
oil goes up for whatever reason, the folks that make
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the oil process the oil make booko bucks.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
I mean, that's what I was getting at. I mean,
there's all this talk about how much oil we produce
here in the United States, and then when you have
like such a global crisis like this, it almost feels
like an excuse to price gouge and capitalize on people's misery.
So I mean, it just seems like, of course they're
going to take advantage of stuff like that. And I
do like the sub line in this article that you
sent Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for
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companies cashing in on human misery to pay for environmental damage.
What a concept.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Check out our Raytheon episode as well, folks. And Iran
has accidentally become a guest on Tonight's Strange News because
Iran did something that other countries don't often do in
geopolitical conversations. They straight up said, we think the US
(24:33):
is crazy. The people in charge of it. These are
everything they're telling you about us reaching a deal is
not a deal, not with us. The real deals are
happening with US Allied corporations. Everything that they are telling
you the American public about a deal being reached or
the straight being peaceful again, it is entirely to manipulate
(24:57):
the markets. And here Iran is like Charlie Day in
Always Sunny in Philadelphia, with the conspiracy board. But the
thing is the stuff they're pointing to is quite literate
and quite true. They're saying, look at the timing of
all of these announcements and then overlay that with the
profits made by a certain connected group of investors as
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well as to the earlier point oil companies.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Did they do this in lego form?
Speaker 4 (25:26):
I think there's production. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Well they released these banger lego music videos, you know,
AI of course, but like they were dropping some serious
truth bombs and like pointing out some very real things,
problematic things going on with our government and kind of
clown and very successfully you know, the quote unquote master
deal makers on our end. I mean, look, think what
(25:53):
you will about Iran. They've got horrible human rights issues,
the problems there were not here to say that Iran,
good job. But it's like the way that our administration
and folks in power are kind of like overly demonizing them.
It's it's obviously a tactic to draw attention away from
these continual bait and switches that you know, they're crazy people,
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they don't know how to make a deal. It's it's
absolute horseshit.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
I I know that I'm going to get some heat
for saying this, folks, because it's a truth. People don't
want to acknowledge. There are no real good guys in
international relations. That's true, not at this level. And also
we have to acknowledge the painful, the painful fact sometimes
bad guys could be right about things right. Being right
(26:43):
about something doesn't make you inherently good, and being inherent
in being bad on any level doesn't make you inherently wrong.
So this is this is one of those cases. And
as far as we can tell, I don't want to
speak for everybody. As far as I can tell based
on what I'm reading through analysts and talking with people
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who are in some kind of adjacent industries, this market
manipulation will continue and once, regardless how things shake out
in the street or in this current conflict, in the
coming conflicts in the station sphere, regardless, the prices of
gas are like the high gas prices for the average
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person in the United States. They'll go down a little,
but they're not going to plummet. Companies are not going
to give that up, just like grocery stores with COVID prices.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
No, guys, do you think the pretense of Iran can
never have a nuclear weapon is going to go down
in history similarly to the weapons of mass destruction that
led to the Iraq War, just like as a pretense
to do the thing that allowed them to do exactly
what they wanted in terms of this kind of opportunity
for market manipulation and price goal and you know, especially
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the sticky relationship in the involvement in Israel and all that.
I just feel like, when did that, all of a sudden,
overnight become the problem the problem? Well, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Yeah, yeah, no, I hear you, and Matt. I don't
want to derail us too far, but this is a
subject of intense interest for some of us in the crowd.
Your question and comparison is great there, no, because the
difference is that we know, I want to be very
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diplomatic here, we know for a fact that certain factions
of the Iranian government very much do want offensive nuclear weaponry.
And part of the reason we know that is because
it's been confirmed by spoopy dupes. And another thing that
is really it falls at the feet of the United
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States and the West. There is established precedent that once
you obtain offensive nuclear weaponry, even if it's crap like
in the DPRK. Even if they don't have a realistic
way to deploy it, other nations will treat you much
more delicately, right, That's why I mean, look at Libya,
(29:15):
look at what happened when they step back their nuclear program.
So that is a that is to a lot of
people who are world leaders, who might be considered frenemies
of the West, that is a clear textbook case for
the class. And so the West will do everything to
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prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weaponry. But Iran, or again diplomatically,
factions of the Iranian government will do everything they can
to hit that inflection point, and they may well see
it as a matter of survival for the regime.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Time you want to see how these two things are connected, No,
the weapons of masses instruction push into Iraq and the
current Iran conflict, all you have to do is go
back to June ninth, nineteen ninety two, check out ABC
News Nightline hosted by Ted Copple, and you can learn
all about how the Reagan administration and the Bush Senior
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administration were allowing all kinds of things to move into Iraq,
including money, including technology, technology that could be used as
a tool and as a weapon, as well as chemical,
chemical weapons and conventional weapons. We were giving a ton
of stuff to Iraq because you know who they were
(30:41):
in conflict with Iran. Yeah, and you can just see
if you look at the history of these things, and
especially Western involvement in the Middle East, you can see
how everything goes way, way, way back, and then if
you think you found the end of it, it goes
back even further. So you would just recommend you check
that stuff out and look at history if you're interested
(31:04):
in these things, if you're interested in how and why,
major oil companies a Ramco, BP Shell, Equanor, Total energies E,
NI Chevron and Exon Mobile made more than seven hundred
thousand dollars of profit every minute in the spring quarter.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Yeah, and this is this is one of those things
that will be a wild ride, folks. If you want
to learn more, we have some books we can recommend,
we can send you some links and so on. But
it is not something you should you should you should
learn about on TikTok. To be quite honest, it's gonna
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mean it goes, like Matt was saying, deeper and deeper
and deeper into.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
The soil, find a book so they can't know that
you're reading about it, and then read it in a
dark place with.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
A flashlight, just uh under the covers potentially.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Yeah, yeah, you're faraday r F I d Y.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Yeah, just because it's you know, it's this is the
real dangerous stuff to know about and to think about
and then have conversations about. Genuinely, I'd love to trade books.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Yeah, I'd love to hear hear from some folks on
the ground. We know some of you were working in
the fossil fuel industry and we're happy you survived. We
we'd love to hear.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
From you and Matt.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
One big note we have to make is when you
are reading books about this, even if they write, even
if they come recommended by us, make very sure they're
not AI. Now.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
I know this was that your main thing, but thanks
for indulging us. This is like a red red red
meat for us to to you know, chew on. But
I think your main thing involved what is it? Google Earth? Right?
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Oh? Oh yes, Max, if you don't mind, If you
don't mind, could you please set the tone for this piece.
I'm gonna read from news from Google, the official Google Blog.
A post that was written on July thirtieth, twenty twenty six,
just set the tone. This is all coming from Brian Horowitz,
product manager of Google Earth. Here it goes. Have you
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ever looked at an empty lot in your neighborhood and
imagined a community garden, or wondered what your city looked
like a century ago. Well now Nano Banana two's image
generation capabilities can show you both and so much more.
In Google Earth for the first time, you can generate
(33:43):
custom images using Google Earth satellite, aerial and three D
imagery alongside Nano Banana, which creates concepts grounded in the
real world. Just zoom into a place in Google Earth,
tap create image, and type whatever you want to see. Guys,
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I'm assuming we all saw this story yes before. Before
we get into what happened next again, this was on
the thirtieth of July. This was posted as well as
the It was posted with the launch of this new
thing that you could do with Nano Banana and Google Earth.
Before we really talk about the consequences and what has occurred.
Do we see any problems with having AI image generation
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built directly into a platform like Google Earth having.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
To go with yes, Yeah, it does seem kind of
counter to the purpose of a thing like that that's
supposed to, you know, just report the truth, I guess,
or represents what the actual earth looks like like I
don't know. Okay, where does AI image generation even fit
intoto a product like that?
Speaker 4 (34:50):
You could also, for instance, and I'm referencing New York
Times here, you could also do what some journalists did
in a very short window time. I think it was
like within twenty four hours, people were making depictions of
refugee camps along a long conflict ridden borders. They were
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showing cities that looked like they were flooded, right, acts
of terror, natural disasters, doing stuff like here's an actual
nuclear power plant in a country that's not supposed to
have one. So they weren't, however, the ad went, they
weren't making pretty gardens and saying what if I did landscaping?
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Uh? Yeah, that is one of the things that Google
suggested you do. Look at an open, empty lot and
then visualize what it would look like with a specific
home in there, or if you renovated it for something,
or let's say, maybe built a million square foot data
center facility. You could do all that stuff right and
generate it with just a couple of words, and then
(35:55):
nano Banana two would do its thing and loop.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
There you go to say, that's a really stupid name.
I'm just sorry. Continue.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
It does seem like it.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
To me.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
You're you're hitting on the right things there have been
about what occurred. Google, to their credit, I suppose, had
this to say we take misinformation seriously. Every image created
with nano banana in Google Earth includes the synth id
digital water mark, so if someone is unsure about an image,
they can ask Gemini or use lens in search to
(36:32):
see if the image was AI generated.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Matt, can I raise my hand really quickly. This is
the first I've heard of any of this kind of watermark,
and I think I've floated the idea we all have
of like, in order to differentiate, you know, this the
fake news and AI generated stuff, there has to be
some way of confirming whether or not something was like captured,
you know, physically with like a lens, or whether it
was created. This is fascinating to me. I do like
(36:57):
that that exists. I know there's sort of talking about
it as a bit of a pr move as to
say no, don't worry. We're actually we've got this covered.
But I would love to talk a little bit more
about how that kind of watermark could be used more
widely in a way would be useful to average folks
outside of the Gemini ecosystem.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Well, here in lies the problem, I think, because a
watermark is great, and when we say watermark we mean
something that is visual on the image as well as
digitally written into the image in the code. Right, these
are the two ways that you could do this. The
problem is with all of these various AI tools, one
(37:38):
of the things you can do is remove watermarks with them.
And often when wenter well and often when we encounter
images on social media, it isn't the original file that
has been uploaded that would have that digital ID marker
in it or something like that. If you're talking about metadata,
(37:59):
it's going to be a screen shot often, or it's
going to be an image that was taken in turned
into a PSD or something, or an illustrator image and
then turned back into a PNG or a JPEG or
something like that, and then maybe even screenshoted and then
uploaded so or a screen capture, right, or it just
could be anything it's often not the original thing that
(38:21):
gets up there, and you can read reporting. I'll just
go to let's see, let's pull from the ars Technica
article written on July thirty first about this titled Google
Earth risked ruin with retracted AI tool for making fake
satellite picks, which is just letting everybody know if you
(38:42):
haven't already seen this in the news. Google the day
after they posted this blog post that we did our
fun little thing with, they retracted this tool and they said, no,
we're not doing it, it's.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Not Instagram did something similar. They retracted an AI tool
that allowed any user to essentially remix other users' images
using AI and then repost it. I can't remember exactly
the details, but it was an example of like the
very next day after announcing it, they pulled it back
because of so much public backlash.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Yep, yep. It is because of the things that Ben
was talking about there there. In this Arts Technica article,
you learn about someone named henk Van s HG nk
Va n E s S. This is an independent investigator
who used the nano banana two stuff in Google Earth
to create all kinds of things. Ben, I think you
(39:35):
mentioned a few of them, and there was a particular
things he did. But here's a quote from him. I
planted a nuclear plant in Iran. I put a fatal
crash on a street in Amsterdam. The other thing he
did is what you mentioned ben putting refugees near the
Mexican border, and he says, I used Google's own satellite
imagery underneath all three of these. What on earth is
(39:57):
Google doing?
Speaker 3 (39:58):
There's no place for it. It's another example of shoehorning
AI into places that absolutely doesn't belong. Not only does
it not belong there, it could cause some serious harm.
But it's just that like whole need to just put
it in everything, and nobody wants it.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
That's absolutely what's happening. It's attempting to create a need,
and it's because there has already been overleveraged investment into
something that a lot of consumers simply don't care for.
So I can see to your point, Noel. I can
see a boardroom saying, all right, we got all this AI,
(40:36):
we can't wait to play with it, and the dev
ty the project managers are going yeah, but our data
and the marketing folks are going, yeah, but our data
shows that people aren't really vibing with it, but we'll
find a way to use it. Yes, their salute, and
the boardroom cheers and the shareholders get all happy slappy,
(40:59):
and then the poor developers say, I guess we could
stick it here. I guess we'll put it where we
think it has the least likelihood of being catastrophically evil.
And so they did their best. I hope that doesn't
sound too conspiratorial, but it feels like no fair assessment.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
I think it is. I think it is. I'm going
to I'm gonna say this last thing that we'll get
out of here. Here's something that ours did, our s Tegnaica.
They used a phone with its camera to take a
photo of a screen that had a one of these
Google Earth generated images, and then they tried to put
it through SYNTHID, the thing that's supposed to detect if
(41:39):
it's an image created with AI, and it was unable
to figure out if that thing was created with AI
or not. Just a reminder as we're encountering social media
from now on, it's going to be really hard to know.
Speaker 4 (42:00):
Was truth civilization the end of history?
Speaker 3 (42:04):
I know, I know how naive I came out talking about,
but the water mark. That's all we need now, of
course you can get rid I mean it would be well,
I just mean it's something we've talked about where like
ideally there would be it seems like these things are
getting so good that you can't even like run them
through these checkers anymore. So it would stand to reason
(42:25):
that you would need to have something embedded that could
not be removed, that could then be used to trace
the origin, you know, of of the footage, like a
pixel or whatever. But some of that there's ways of
getting rid of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Of course, there's one last conspiratorial thing here when you
talk about the motivation of why in the hell would
Google decide to do this, there's something that s points
out in this Artist Technica article or he was talking
about it and ours was talking about it. I'm just
gonna read this for band. It could have handed an
(42:57):
additional excuse to government officials or anyone one who wants
to deny genuine satellite photos by claiming they were modified
or generated entirely with those AI tools that were available
in Google Earth. Not that they can't do that with
other AI generative tools.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
Right.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
You could take a screenshot or an image or a
video you create in Google Earth and then use AI
to do overlays like it would just take more steps
to get it done to have a you know, native
version of it could have. You could create these things
really fast, and you could make claims. Even if it's
a genuine satellite image of something that you don't want
(43:34):
people to see, you can claim that it's not real.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
We're seeing that happen with even reporting on scandals and
stuff and like, you know, claiming that photos were doctored,
And of course in the past that was certainly on
the table, but now it's just more easy than ever
to you know, muddy the waters of public opinion by
by claiming something was AI. You know, it's it's it's
it's bad.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
News, and what are you gonna do about it? We're
gonna take a break. We'll be right back with more
strange news.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
And we returned with our final strange news segment. Guys,
I thought I wouldn't need to say exactly we're ending
on good news here, but we're looking on a well
that's not true. Okay, you know what. I'll lead with
the good news, and it is sort of on theme
for the other stories I'm talking about Vietnamese doctor or
Vietnamese doctors rather perform first successful penis transplant on forty
three year old man, the Shipian has undergone a partial
(44:33):
and guys, I didn't know this is a word, but
here it goes p neck to me. Four years ago
he had and was struggling as only a small portion
of the organ remained. But they've now done successfully a
penis transplant using an organ from a donor who had
experienced brain death. So the recipient, a forty three year
(44:54):
old man, had already underwent, like I said, a partial
p neck to me at Hanoi's Viet Duke Friendship Hospital.
After taking a look at his medical condition and his
immune capacity, psychological health, and considering the ethics of the procedure,
a team of specialists decided that he would be a
suitable candidate for a full transplant. Penectomy this is coming
(45:18):
from the Independent. By the way, is a surgical procedure
involving the partial or complete removal of the penis. This
is from Yale Medicine. It is typically performed as a
treatment for penile cancer as part of gender affirming surgery
for transgender individuals. An Associate professor by the name of
doctor Win Qwang, who's the director of the hospital's andrology center,
(45:39):
said that the operation involved rebuilding key structures of the
penis while reconnecting tiny blood vessels and nerves through what's
called microsurgery. And this is what he said about it.
In this transplant procedure, we reconstructed the anatomical structures of
the penis, including the urethra, corpus spongiosum, all kinds of
fun new terms today, and pora cavernosa, while simultaneously performing
(46:03):
microsurgical anastomosis of minute arteries, veins, and nerves. And so
this constitute's not the first ever penis transplant in the world,
but one of only six successful penis transplants globally, and
the first ever in the nation of Vietnam.
Speaker 4 (46:20):
And folks, we I mean, first off, congratulations, but stay safe. Secondly,
congratulations to the doctors. Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, we
know that these are dangerous procedures and there have been
a lot of people who have died as a result
of what could sometimes be called reconstructive surgery, or sometimes
(46:45):
called cosmetic or vanity related surgery. I'm thinking of oh
what was his name? A few years back Oh it was.
It was a billionaire named hud are La Niado. So
this guy had everything in the world, what financially budd
he died in a penis operation.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
H I like how you're pretending that that came off
the top of your dome bend.
Speaker 4 (47:14):
I do remember these.
Speaker 1 (47:15):
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
I'm not an expert that like. Ask me about nuclear
proliferation and I can freestyle, but ask me about penis
surgery and I have to look it up.
Speaker 3 (47:25):
Thank you. Then I'm sorry. I think you mean pen
nectary p necto.
Speaker 4 (47:28):
Yeah, gotta got a lot that I don't want to learn.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
Oh, guys, I don't say this very often, but if
for whatever reason I go, you can have my penis.
Speaker 3 (47:41):
Thank you, or whoever whoever has a need arived.
Speaker 4 (47:48):
That's all for you. No, all right, thanks for your service. Please.
If I if I wasn't going to be shot into space,
then you guys could have my junk.
Speaker 3 (47:58):
To ben And also, like in writing, you giving up
your claim to Matt's penis never made it okay, Just so,
just so we're all above board, Jordan oral contract state.
Speaker 4 (48:14):
But I'm saying it on air.
Speaker 3 (48:16):
Yeah. Second, I'm a penis segregation No it's true, and guys,
I wanted to lead with this because it is good news.
We're very happy for this gentleman in Vietnam. We're a
little concerned about a couple of other dudes that also
have penises and that had them out in some very
unusual occurrences. The first one in all is a forty
(48:37):
four year old man just one year Wait, no, the
same exact age is the man who got the penis transplant. Coincidence,
now forty three, one year older. I think so coincidence.
A man forty four has been charged after jumping fully
nude more than two hundred feet off of the Brooklyn
Bridge into the water below, where he survived. A man
(49:00):
by the name of glaizem A baile Dayev was seen
climbing the I guess what she would call the kind
of arches in the center of the bridge. Once he
got to the top, he apparently jumped in. He let's see,
was rescued by the New York Police Department's Harbor Unit
(49:23):
and is being charged with multiple offenses if you can imagine,
including reckless endangerment and perhaps one stemming from his nudity.
But let's see. His roommate claimed that he was inspired
by others who did the same thing last month, alleging
that he had planned to do it on his birthday
in his birthday suit. I don't know, guys, I hadn't
(49:45):
heard about this happening last month. Let's see if we
can find some details on that. The event occurred around
two thirty pm, so the middle of the day on
August the second Sunday. Let's see, he was spotted on
top of a bri ridge tower yeat one of those arches,
and according to a photo of the man that was
obtained by NBC News, he could be seen in a
(50:06):
blue shirt and shorts with a large square shaped backpack
on his back as he climbed to the top. He
disrobed at the top. He did not make the climb nude.
I think it's an important detail to remember. So he
had a backpack and two flags with him during the incident.
Officials didn't share additional details as to what was going
on with the flags. He reportedly then stripped down and
(50:30):
then jumped into the East River, which, by the way, guys,
rail dirty East River not a good place to bathe
even in like a wetsuit. Swimming rivers now people do
like boat and jet ski and stuff. But yeah, they
would be wearing full wetsuits. Let's see, he allegedly jumped
(50:52):
once officers had already arrived at the scene. He was
rescued as mentioned by the NYPD's Harbor Unit, and is
transferred to a local hospital. So it appear that he
sustained some injuries as you would imagine with a jump.
I mean, guys hitting the water from that height fully new.
I don't know unless you're just like some sort of
(51:12):
expert diver and you can one of those guys that
like gets the ten out of ten with the little
they hold up the number and makes no splash. That
was smart. Hitting water from that height is kind of
tan amount to like hitting the ground concrete.
Speaker 4 (51:27):
Yeah, you can hit. You can break your legs, you
can break your spine or your neck. I remember doing
some research on this for a for a different initiative,
and the amount of people who unsuccessfully attempt to take
their own lives by jumping off a bridge is staggering.
(51:47):
It'll leave them with lifelong injuries and without you know,
being too serious at this point, folks, please do check
out the statistics which will prove to you that the
vast majority of people who make that jump regret it
and don't think it was a good decision.
Speaker 3 (52:07):
There's a documentary that I never watched because it just
seemed too sad, but it's called The Bridge and it
was about how very many folks have attempted to take
their own lives jumping off of the San Francisco Bay Bridge.
Speaker 2 (52:23):
That's a harrowing documentary.
Speaker 4 (52:25):
It's very well done.
Speaker 3 (52:26):
If I've heard it is if I may. The charges
here are listed, and they're they're quite interesting. A couple
of them that I don't fully understand, but most of
them I definitely do. Reckless endangerment, check public lewdness. Okay,
check criminal trespass. Got it, that makes sense. It's early conduct.
And here's the one that I don't quite get. Graffiti.
(52:49):
Did he pee on the way?
Speaker 2 (52:50):
That was?
Speaker 3 (52:50):
I was gonna ask them, and is that consider graffiti
or is that public? There is there another charge?
Speaker 4 (52:56):
Did he write anything when he got to the town.
Speaker 3 (52:58):
No, we know he had these flats, but unclear as
to what this graffiti charge was stemming from.
Speaker 2 (53:05):
Do you guys ever do a high dive like at
a public pool or an you.
Speaker 3 (53:09):
Know, it's one of those things guys. I think I've
mentioned like I do like roller coasters, but if I
don't go on one for a while, I almost have
to reacclimate myself to them. Like I'll go to the
amusement park six Flags around here and like start with
the kiddy coasters and work my way up. I would
have to do the very same thing with a high dive.
I would have to like first jump off the edge,
then do the regular dive, then maybe the medium would
(53:30):
then finally, hopefully I would be brave enough to do
the high dive. But those are scary too, and they
hurt if you had land weird, no question about it.
Speaker 2 (53:37):
See. I remember, I think it was the Will's Park
pool in Alfaretta when I was a kid, and it
was it had a high dive in it, and I
specifically remember it was. It's like, you know, there are
different sizes like with the Olympics and things like that,
thirty three feet and just how terrifying that is to jump. Yeah. Sorry,
(54:03):
Max's chiming in saying he remembers the grotto when we
were in Bahamar, and.
Speaker 3 (54:07):
Even that was us Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (54:10):
It wasn't quite high dive level, but it was so
high up, but it was h.
Speaker 3 (54:13):
Enough for me to be a little spooked. And I
know exactly the kind of diving board you're talking about, Matt,
And this is two hundred and seventy two feet above
the wall, you know. Terrifying guys. I've got one quick
one to end with today, involving another incident of a
nudeman doing something weird, as nude men tend to do
(54:34):
in public. This one involves a guy who crashed his
car into a church in Detroit and claimed that he
was the second coming of Jesus Christ. Can't make this
stuff up, That's all I got. I will say this, though.
There's some great stuff on Reddit about best nudeman claiming
to be Jesus crashed his car into Detroit church. A
(54:57):
naked man having a mental health crisis crashed car into
the Liberty Temple Baptist church on Detroit's West side. And
then just some of the comments. First one from Jazz
Like Strength says, prove he's not Jesus, simple floatshart. Someone responds,
do his hands whistle when he sticks them out the
car windows? No? Not Jesus? Wow? Get it? Because he's
(55:18):
got Yes? Yeah, yeah, Someone give him a bottle of
water and see what he can do. First, check his
driver's license and make sure it's real ID. It's the
only way to be sure. My upstairs tenant woke me
up one night because there were cops outside. A guy
had ripped the antenna of my Lincoln town car and
was fencing with the cops, claiming to be Jesus. This
(55:40):
guy gets around and last one. That will be the
last time they asked Jesus to take the wheel.
Speaker 2 (55:50):
That is for me.
Speaker 4 (55:51):
Guys, Yeah, yeah, ed folks, thank you as always for
tuning in. As we said, this is Earth Day season
for your conspiracy boys and entities. We hope you're having
a wonderful August. I'm not gonna let this this anti
(56:11):
new propaganda pass though, Noel, you do need to know, folks,
a Florida steakhouse will let you eat for free if
you dine in the nude. So shout out to Hollywood,
Florida News Channel eight Florida.
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They're not paid us to say this, but just so
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