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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt,
my name is Noel.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
They call me Ben. We're joined as always with our
super producer Max the Free Train Williams. Most importantly, you
are here. You are here. That makes this the stuff
they don't want you to know. Welcome to our weekly
Strange news segment. If you are tuning in the evening,
this publishes you have officially survived to July twentieth, twenty
(00:54):
twenty six.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Folks.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
As we know, we discussed this in a recent our
recent listener mail segment. The political news coming in from
the US is that Senator Lindsey Graham has passed away.
His sister has been picked, not elected, to serve in
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his place. Do check out our listener mail program for
a little bit more of that. We also, guys, we
also talked just a bit about Donald Trump, current President
of the United States, firing all the people who are
supposed to be in charge of the election.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Must have been an accident over.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Yeah, yes, accidentally hit the big your fired button that
he keeps on his desk, right, right.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Right, There's so much going on, we have a cavalcade
of strange news to share with.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
You on that. On that point though, real quick, did
you hear that there's a he's got big announcement coming
up tomorrow that is likely something to do with declaring
two of our Georgia senators illegitimate?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, I heard there was a big announcement, nol. But
can you tell us a little bit more well?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I know that Asoff and Warnock have been getting a
lot of traction just you know, in terms of the
national conversation around potentially, you know, a Democratic nominee for
the next presidency or the next presidential election. And I
think because of the nature of the election that Trump,
you know, in Georgia in particular, which was a big
hiccup in the twenty twenty election for Trump when there's
(02:36):
that infamous phone call that was recorded of him talking
to I believe his name was Ratzenberg. Yeah, I think
that's right where he was asking him to find quote
unquote find some votes. That is the election. I believe
that these two gentlemen were initially elected in since then,
I believe at least one of them has been re elected.
(02:58):
But it is my understanding that there's internal scuttle butt
that Trump is going to declare them in his you
know whatever, infinite declarability to be illegitimate in the interest
I imagine of just muddying up the conversation. You know,
I don't know, guys, I know you do that. You
can't do that. You can say stuff, but he can't
(03:21):
declare like he's always doing this. I hear by stuff.
It ain't a thing, man.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
So I'm sorry, America. I didn't know I couldn't do that.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Well, but I guess that's the issue. Guys. We talked
about how so much of the things that he does
is basically just a flouting of what has historically been
governed by nothing but decorum and just you know, the
gentleman's agreements. So there, you know, it's really making us
realize how unprotected so many of these things are. That
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we're just relying on tradition, and when you have somebody
like Trump who just doesn't care about things like that,
it really goes show you how vulnerable we really are
and whether or not he can do it. He's pretty
infamous for doing stuff and then getting challenged by the
courts later, which can really cause a hiccup. And this
is all seems like it's something to muddy up the
waters of the midterms coming up.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Okay, if they happen.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
If they happen, well, he can't do that either, quote unquote, right.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Well, the thing is the election commissioners. Please check out
our previous episode on the Federal Election Commission. They're supposed
to be our bulldogs for this kind of thing, and
they can't do it if they don't have their jobs.
We're also, you know, I'm fully aware. I think we're
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all fully aware that at times our frank, objective discussion
of US politics has maybe ruffled some feathers. And we're
not obviously, folks, Noel, Matt yours truly and freight train.
We are not injecting our opinions. We're looking at what
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is occurring, and we're asking questions that everybody should be asking.
I mean, we've got so much going on in the world.
This evening explosive diarrhea right Oh.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
As if it wasn't already on the table with talk.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
About we talked about it earlier in Strange News I
want to say, but we also know there is a
lot going on with the way human society is attempting
to address technology, and there's a lot, there's a lot
on the horizon here.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Oh yeah, one last story just for the opener here,
and speaking of illegitimate things that people don't like, New
Yorkers have effectively rejected the building of new data centers
as of yesterday, July fourteenth, as we record, the governor there,
Kathy Hokeel, signed an executive order yesterday imposing the country's
(05:57):
first statewide moratorium on hyper scale data centers. And it's
because the human beings who live in New York said no,
first state.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
To do so, which, by the way, Matt reminds me of.
We did an investigation into why toilets are largely quote
unquote free in the United States, and it was a
it was like a data center war that we're seeing
again here. Do check out that, god nol. I think
we made that a two part series, didn't we.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I think we did. And really quick, Matt, speaking of
things regarding AI that can be changed by humans, I
think that's the big takeaway here is I think a
lot of us have feel a little bit helpless to
stem the tide, you know, the deluge of AI andification
and infrastructure drain and all of that. There's another interesting
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example of people affecting AI through some backlash. Meta has
pulled a new AI image feature. Just getting absolutely clowned
on the internet. They abruptly took down a new feature
that allowed people to use its artificial intelligence to make
fake images from user content on Instagram, advertising it as
a feature not a bug, part of its rollout of
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something called muse Image is a new AI image generation
tool allowing folks to essentially use the whole of Instagram
as a pool for material to generate AI images from.
Like again advertising it like this is great. But folks
that just were like, nah, man, this is a bridge
too far. And the company, as massive as they are
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and as seemingly unbeholden to anybody as they are, did
walk back that particular feature.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
They seem to keep pulling things, don't They also.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Mark if you're listening, thanks for tuning in. And I
don't think it was a great look for you to
ride up in your yacht after you fired all those people.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Uh, just way that guy listens to this, maybe.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Just pointing it out so the reason we're talking about
the rise of public free toilets. The reason I'm making
this comparison is Illinois was the first state to fully
ban pay toilets, and I think it speaks to your
point Noll regarding New York's decision with data centers, because
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once somebody, once one member of a group, stands up,
be they an individual or a state, then we can
hopefully see a domino effect come into play.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Well just see the plot of Ants the movie, or
perhaps a bugs life, but just the idea and mainly
ants that there are way more of us than there
are of them. And as easy it is, as easy
as it is to get so discouraged by all of
this stuff and sort of claim, well, there's nothing I
can do about it, so why even bother. I'm guilty
of that a lot. It's important to have stories like
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this that can kind of renew that sense of like
it is possible to make a change just by you know,
being loud.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
We do have to keep in mind, this moratorium is
only for about a year, so it very well could
come back after a year and we're paying attention to
other things and then it just goes through, right, But.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
It represents like a certain we won't stand for this
attitude that could become inconvenient for the folks that would
like to just bulldoze over the world with these things.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
A bell Weather can right in the whole mine of
new technology. And speaking of coming back, will be right
back after a word from our sponsors.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
And we've returned in boys, it's time to talk stocks
and banks, Stocks and banks. Sure you know how exciting
I love that I got my drum kit.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
A real short of force stocks, the mythical the Ride.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah, we're gonna jump to a quick story coming to
us from The Guardian. On July tenth, South Korea chip
maker sk Heinex rides AI boom, raising twenty six point
five billion dollars US in huge US listing. I'm gonna
read a little bit from this guy's and then we'll
we'll open for comment. Just got to get some of
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the details out. The South Korean chip maker sk Heinex
has aimed to raise twenty six and a half billion
dollars as it takes advantage of the AI boom in
what will be one of the world's biggest ever stock sales.
They have plans to issue the equivalent of about eighteen
million shares on NASDAK. You guys remember NASDAK. Yeah, yeah,
(10:48):
I've been inside of their giant video wall thing we have.
It's so weird, very weird back in the day, back
in the good old days. So okay, So they are
on Nasdaq eighteen million shares. They are a supplier of
advanced memory chips two do do in Vidia. They've seen
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skyrocketing profits thanks to this whole global race to build
these AI data centers and sk Heinex h y Nix.
They have sored more than two hundred and twenty percent
this year in the soul stock market. So in the
South Korean stock market, and you may ask yourself, okay,
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well this is a South Korean company traded on the
South Korean market. What is it doing in the US market. Well,
there's this fun thing that these financial experts have decided
makes sense for US to do. It's called American Depository
shares or ADS. So sk Heinex is being listed on
Nasdaq with these ADS's, which are slices of foreign companies
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that get to be traded on US US stock markets.
Each stock that is purchased on Nasdaq is only worth
one tenth of one actual share on the South Korean markets.
Hear that again, guys, one tenth of one share, tiny,
tiny little slice of a thing, and they were wanting
one hundred and forty nine dollars per share per one
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tenth of a share.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Wow, Matt, how mean did you get?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I haven't none, zero, because it's insane that If it's
one tenth, then guys, let's do the quick math here.
What's that times ten on four hundred ninety dollars per share?
Come on, that's what I could do.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Are you saying are you saying this is like a
new way of trading stock?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I think this is a thing. I don't know a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I don't think it's new.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yeah, a notification. I got a notification that I'm trying
to find on my personal trade account that had something
to do with with with with fractions of stocks and
a new feature that was being offered, And now I'm
trying to find it again, and I'm wondering if it
had any connection. How does this trickle down to just
like the average, you know, middle class stock trader.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Right Well, well, the the idea for and I'm pulling
this from Investipedia, so thank you Investipedia. The idea here
is that it will be an ADS actually is supposed
to democratize in a way access to a stock market,
because you don't have to be that upper crust echelon
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of society to access foreign investment. So an ADS essentially,
like the proponents are going to tell us, it removes
the problem of foreign currency conversion, so now you can
buy things in the petro dollar. But the I think
what we're getting at here is it's a lot like
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splitting the stock, isn't.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
It if it's a new shiny product that you can
buy you middle class investor that has a little money
put away stream. But yep, okay. But here's the most
important thing about all of this sk Heinex stuff. This offering,
this IPO, this initial public offering, is being led by
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a couple of folks. Bank of America Securities, City Group
Global Markets, Goldman Sachs Asia and JP Morgan Securities. Now
we're going to jump to a couple of things. These
are stories from the past, just to remind us of
who these folks are. This is CNBC December twelfth, twenty
(14:44):
twenty two. How Bank of America achieved a massive comeback
from the brink of collapse. And here's a quote from
Mike Mayo, an analyst with Wells Fargo, to explain to
us what this is.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Bank of America was one reason why much of the
investing public and consumer and government lost faith and trust
in banking. If the government did not intervene for Bank
of America and the other banks, Bank of America would
have failed. Here's another little piece of history for you.
This is from The Guardian, April eleventh, twenty sixteen. Goldman
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Sachs to pay five billion dollars for its role in
the two thousand and eight financial crisis, and a quote
here from Stuart Dellery, the acting Associate Attorney General at
the time. Quote, this resolution holds Goldman Sacks accountable for
its serious misconduct in falsely assuring investors again, falsely assuring
investors that securities that sold were backed by solid mortgages
(15:39):
when it knew they were full of mortgages that were
likely to fail. Last couple here, guys to getting through
this fast. CNBC March sixteenth, twenty eleven. City Group Top's
list of banks who received federal aid. The bank that
exposed the federal government to the greatest potential loss during
the government bailout was City Group, which received a grand
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total of four hundred and seventy six point two billion
dollars in cash and guarantees. These are the folks that
are offering this up to you to buy, to become
a part of it, because remember, you, too, middle class investor,
can become of the big party. There is good news, though,
amongst these high rollers, there is one seemingly sensible player,
(16:24):
JP Morgan Chase You guys remember them, right, Yeah, I
could be very After the financial crisis in eight, they famously,
with the help of the federal government, saved Slash, took
over the failing institutions bear Stearns and Washington Mutual. These
were the saviors of the Great Recession. So at least
(16:46):
if they're in the group, that's good news, right. According
to CNBC, all of these banks right now, you know,
in this timeline, not the one from eight. In this timeline,
they're doing pretty dang well. Here's another story from CNBC
July fourteenth, twenty twenty six. Bank earnings Live updates. Jamie
diamond says AI has helped JP Morgan cut up to
(17:07):
forty percent of jobs in certain roles. Huh here, wait, wait,
Here's here's the kicker. JP Morgan, Chase, Bank of America,
City Group, Goldman Sachs. Remember those, they're all the ones
we're talking about with his IPO and Wells Fargo, though,
adding one more, they all reported earnings Tuesday that beat expectations.
(17:28):
That's Tuesday, yesterday, July fourteenth, As we record. JP Morgan
CEO Jamie Diamond said that all of the company's major
businesses posted record revenue last quarter. He added that, quote,
the US economy has demonstrated notable resiliency this year with
stronger business investment and hiring. Here's the last little thing
(17:50):
he had to say. Diamond said artificial intelligence has helped
the bank cut up to forty percent of jobs in
certain roles, though he noted that most of these people
were offered positions elsewhere in the company. Their stock rose
roughly two percent in midday trading. Isn't that exciting, guys?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
You know it is exciting. I mean, I think you're
being strecufceises there. It's depressing. It's dystopian for sure. Offering
a counter to that, though, did you guys hear the
story about how Ikea used AI to replace certain jobs
but then re directed those humans to more human centric jobs,
like I believe, so it's interesting. Basically, they used AI
(18:32):
to replace some folks that were just doing basic run
of the mill customer service, and then once they did
use that technology to replace those positions, they redirected those
people to essentially act as more hands on home to
core specialists dealing directly with the public, helping make decisions
and make suggestions about like where to put things and
stuff like that. And they also posted profits and positive
(18:58):
you know, economic results as a result of that change.
So I just think it's lazy on a couple of accounts,
like a when companies are just replacing things and removing
jobs and getting rid of people and to cut the
bottom line. But also I think the reporting has a
tendency to be a little bit myopic, because there are
ways that we can hold companies account to use this
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technology in a way that is beneficial to humans.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Yeah, well, said Noel, and I at the risk of
sounding far out and conspiratorial here, I am thoroughly convinced,
folks that a lot of the layoffs that we're seeing
in big companies, big Western companies are using AI as
a fig leaf rationalization because it sounds good in a boardroom.
(19:49):
Are sounds like I'm saying, they're not actually laying off
people for the success of AI automation as off then
as the press releases would tell us. I think the
conspiracy is real. Here k shape that got me.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
I think that hits right in the middle of all
the things we're talking about. Ben, I think that's a
really good point. We are, obviously have a lot of
qualms with the use of AI and the corporate roll
out of it and the willy nilly kind of like
thoughtless way it's being pushed out and shoved down a
lot of our throats. But there is a lot of
breathless reporting wrapped up in some dumification of it. And
I think there is a world where it can be
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a positive thing. And I think we all know that
that's the reality of these things is somewhere in the middle.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
For me, the unfortunate reality is all of these record
bank profits that are happening, and all of that, what
do you think that's coming from, Guys, It's.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
From FROI investments, It's from the bubble, yeah, but from
money is going back and forth.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
These people are just shaking each other's hands.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
It's one big bender and everybody's just passing the drinks around,
and they're all in the game. They're all in the party.
You can look to the Bank of America CEO Brian moynihan.
Hopefully no relation to Bobby, he said, as one of
the strongest quarters to date for his company. He told
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CNBC that it's up to management teams to mitigate the
impact from AI job losses, so good luck management teams.
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said the Bank deal's backlog
is at the highest level in five years. It bodes
well for revenue in future quarters. He also told CNBC
that he sees AI as making people more productive, but
(21:32):
it shouldn't affect their head count. Goldman Sachs stock rose
more than six percent in midday trading. The last thing
to connect all of this together is something that is
happening on the legislative side. We talked a lot about
Jamie Diamond, JP Morgan, they're the saviors. Jamie Diamond's the CEO,
he's been the CEO.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Talk about nominate to determine this.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Yeah, we've mentioned that before. Jamie Diamond. It's not Diamond,
it's Diamond Oh, here's the little thing from Forbes, written
by Alison Durky July thirteenth, a couple of days ago.
JP Morgan maintains Jamie Diamond didn't know Epstein, as Senator
Warren investigates, JP Morgan Chasing Company maintained to Forbes on Monday.
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That's this Monday, as we're recording that CEO Jamie Diamond
did not know Jeffrey Epstein and never met him. After
the Epstein files raised new questions about Diamond and JP
Morgan Chase's relationship with the late financier, which.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Also, by the way, Warren Buffett just pulled his donation
to the Gates Foundation.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yes, absolutely relationship with the late financier, which Senator Elizabeth Warren,
a Democrat of Massachusetts, is now investigating. Warren questioned JP
Morgan Chase's quote extended business relationship un quote with Epstein,
who was known to have banked with the institution between
nineteen ninety eight and twenty thirteen, paying some hear this
(22:57):
guys eight billion dollars to the bank in fees over
that time, eight billion dollars in fees to that bank,
and he opened at least one hundred and thirty four
accounts with the banking establishment. Jamie Diamond testified in twenty
twenty three that he never met or knew Epstein, but
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emails in the Epstein files show Epstein and then UK
Business Secretary Peter Mandelson we've talked about before, was strategizing
on having Diamond urged the UK government not to approve
a new tax on bankers bonuses. He didn't want them
to approve a new tax on bankers bonuses, which he
ultimately did, though it's unclear if he was at all
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influenced by Epstein and Mandelssyn to do so. Warren also
cited last thing here, guys, a twenty ten email in
which Epstein's assistant asked the financier about a meeting with MANDELSSN,
Diamond and JP Morgan Chase executive Jess Stay another person
caught up in the whole thing. That's it, guys, just
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reminding ours that these massive financial institutions are run by
folks who apparently have no problem having a client such
as Jeffrey Epstein. But they didn't know, they never met him,
they didn't understand what's happening. They just saw the dollar signs,
which is maybe the biggest problem we're all facing only
seeing the dollar signs.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Well, and speaking of the dollar signs, I just wanted
to add this at the end. This is I think
relatively new news. I noticed that Applestock went waigh the
flip up today, and it comes in the wake of
the news that they are quietly not quietly, I guess,
because it seemed to effect efective the market shopping around
for the acquisition of semiconductor startups in order to supercharge
(24:41):
their artificial intelligence server capabilities, which represents a pretty aggressive
move in the AI arms race, as it's being called.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Mergers and acquisitions. Hey, if you want to check on
sk heinez and how they're doing over there on NASDAK,
you can search sk h y. That's the little handy thing.
They're a little they're a little ticker representative. Currently, as
we record Wednesday, July fifteenth, eleven forty eight am Eastern
Standard time, the price is one hundred and seventy dollars
(25:16):
and six oh five point six oh five. Yeha, it's
way up from the IPO.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Congratulations, Yippika, mother trucker.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
We'll be right back after a word from our sponsors.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
And we have returned and guys this morning in a
typical wake up and doom scroll at five am moment
that I think we've all kind of had happened probably
from time to time, where you're too tired to get up,
but you're not quite you're a little too wired to
go back to sleep. So ye end, I'm just kind
of doing the old the old scroll. I saw an
(25:58):
Instagram video from a content creator. I hate the term,
but there we are commenting on a case of a
missing young man who went missing in Mississippi, a guy
named Nolan Wells who disappeared on a barrier island off
of the Gulf Coast of Mississippi after going on a
(26:19):
boating trip with I think four friends, all of whom
were white. And the commentary was regarding a seeming lack
of interest in finding this man after he went missing,
and the remaining dudes in the party just kind of
going back home and not really telling anybody. And this idea,
(26:41):
see this, this idea that he was going to mac
on some lady and left his phone with the boys.
Who nobody does that. There's a lot of little suspicious details.
Get out, very get out, yes, exactly, A bit of
a lackluster manhunt from the Jackson County Share Department and
(27:01):
then sadly the young man's body was recovered. But it
just some things not lining up, guys, And I actually
feel like this might, as more information does trickle out,
be worth a larger exploration. So I just wanted to
mention that at the top our obviously, our our hearts
are with the family of this young man, mister mister Wells,
(27:23):
Nolan Wells, but I think we'll hold off on this
one for a for a larger exploration down the line.
So I am going to talk about just to just
kind of horror movie things that have happened in the
news over the last few days. I'll start with a
case of a jealous woman who filed her teeth down
(27:44):
in Moscow. Filed her teeth down in order to ensure
that she would this is a little trigger warning stuff, guys,
sever her husband's penis when biting it off, Yeah, biting
when biting through it, that she would make it a
clean cut. She she filed her tea down. A jealous
wife bid off her husband's penis after sharpening her own
teeth in what medics described as a quote guaranteed act
(28:07):
of bloody revenge. The horror reportedly unfolded in Moscow, Russia,
after the thirty nine year old woman found a message
on her forty one year old husband's phone from another woman,
some raunchy stuff, some sort of you know, hanky panky
that took place in a dream, this woman sends to
the husband. Instead of confronting him and asking about it,
(28:29):
or you know, confronting the woman, she apparently planned a
meticulously planned this attack that culminated with her severing this
man's member with her filed down teeth. She specifically altered
her teeth in order to achieve that result. Let's see.
(28:51):
He apparently the man has described how she set a
trap for him by cooking dinner before they kind of
got drunk together. His wife cooked dinner, they sat down, drank, ate,
drink some more, and then went to the bed where
she started to you know, put a move on him
as as it were, you know, an old mouth move.
And that is when she, I guess, you know, tripped
(29:15):
the trap or or what do you call it, sprung
the trap. And at that moment she bit right on
through uh and said to him as he screamed, and
of course, you know bled profusely that as she spat
it out and told him it's your own fault. Now
you can't do it with anyone else.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
But where is this coming to us from?
Speaker 4 (29:36):
This is in Russia. This is coming to us from
a couple of sources. This is Ror, Yeah, the Mirror.
This one's I mean certainly tabloid type material, no question.
This was coming from the Star at the UK Star
and also there of course the Sun. Are you seeing
anywhere else? Matter?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Are you?
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Are you questioning the veracity of.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Oh no, I just I just uh, it just sounds
so out there, you know. It's one of those though.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Yeah, let's see what we can find.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
I'm definitely seeing folks Will Stewart and Rihanna Smith writing
for AOL courtesy of The Mirror. But no, I'm not
seeing I'm not seeing the name. The heartbreaking thing that
I am seeing is that the man who survived the attack,
(30:25):
he says there was no infidelity. They have a seven
year old child and now he has to take care
of that kid.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Yeah, no, it's rough. There's obviously some mental health issues
at play here. And yeah, it's really you know, horrific stuff.
And I wouldn't even typically bring these kinds of stories,
but it also popped up in conjunction with another pretty
insane horror movie esque story out of Japan. Masai Sukurai,
(30:55):
forty nine, is a part time worker, was arrested on
Monday in Koga City, an Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo,
after having been found to have sown her roommate's mouth shut.
What a Japanese woman was arrested for allegedly sowing shut
the lips of another woman she was living with, causing
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injuries that left her unable to eat or speak. Police
said Miss Sakurai use a needle and thread to sow
the woman's lips together at around one thirty pm. They
didn't disclose whether Miss Sakarai is admitted to the allegations,
but announced that they were investigating the motive and circumstances
behind the assaults. The victim escaped the house around one
(31:38):
thirty pm the following day while miss Sakurai was out.
So it sounds like, ah, it's like a it's a
hostage situation. It's like a torture and captivity situation, japan
Today reported. Wearing a white face mask, she ran to
a nearby shop and handed a staff member a note
reading please help me. She was unable to speak because
of her injuries. She later told the police that she
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was scared for her life. The miss Saker I had
prevented her from escaping, and you know, she was essentially
held there. The two folks, the two women had been
living together since twenty twenty five. Police said that other
people had also been staying at the property and they
were questioning them as part of the investigation. I heard
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this one from my buddy Jonesy's Weirdest Weird af News podcast,
and he pointed out something that occurred to me as well,
This really reminds me of like the plot of the
Takashimik horror film Audition. Just there's some you know, there's
not a lot of there's no guns in Japan, there's
very few gun crimes, but there are sure are a
lot of knife crimes and really twisted like you know,
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mutilation crimes. If anyone hasn't seen Audition, it is a
tough watch, but a fantastic film that really talks about
the dynamic between men and women in Japan and this
idea of sort of like holding an audition for your
like you know, new spouse and this is way in
the pre internet dating days. I mean, obviously Japan's on
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the cutting edge of using technology for stuff like dating
much you know, much far ahead of us as a society.
But it really shows some of the pitfalls of that.
It's a fascinating film. Acquaintances of Miss saker I told
local broadcaster a TV Asaki that she had a history
of allowing people who had left their homes so runaway
is to stay with her and had helped some of
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them find work. And you got to start thinking about, well,
is that a trap? Is she like ensnaring them in
order to do horrific things of them as well? Hard
to say, but man, what a specific thing to do
to somebody? What would cause someone to go to such
lengths if they weren't kind of predisposed to do some
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pretty horrific twisted things like that. Guys.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Yeah, And there's a is to be clear, folks, if
you've ever visited, especially in parts of Tokyo, you know
there is a quiet crisis in people being unhoused and homeless.
I'm thinking in particular of the so called Kabukicho kids.
It's a tough thing and NOL. I was not familiar
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with this story, but I do want to shout out
The Independent. The journalist Dudy Mishra seems to have a
pretty good write up on this.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Yeah, are there any other details you're seeing in that right? Up? Then?
I was looking at the AOL piece, but I'm very
curious as to what the motives might have been. I
think it might be too early to have any handle
on that.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Well, I just saw on a piece that I looked
up that the attacker in the scenario appears to be
someone who would allow It says specifically women who need
a place to live.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Like I was saying, I was referring to them as runaways.
But I think you're giving a little more detail. Maybe
it's almost like battered women or women that maybe are
escape domestic assault. Is that what you're employing.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Some it's a pretty dang vague and in the reporting
I'm seeing, but it appears to be just someone who
needs a place to stay. She offered up her place
for them. It said that she would always contact the parents.
That's what the story says before you know making the
arrangement solid. There's just so many unknowns in the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
It's also we should point out this is one of
the things that fascinates me about Japan, and as some
of us are on the road very soon, it's something
we should look into. I don't know if it's an episode,
but we've talked about it a bit on air or
just in texting with each other off air. There is
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a huge industry of companies in Japan that will help
people disappear. I know we've talked about it. There's sometimes
called johatsu.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
But sometimes out of shame for having dishonored their family
or lost a job. It's almost a way of like
exiling themselves so they don't have to answer for the
shaming of their family. Isn't that part of it been.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Yeah, that's part of it. No johatsu it translates in
English to I think evaporation, So people will leave for
any number of reasons, which is technically totally legal in
that country, as long as you know you don't commit
pseudo side and try to fake your death for money.
But the homeless issue or the unhoused issue there comes
(36:31):
from a very strict society that too often has people
falling through the cracks, Like if you go to certain
parts of Tokyo. You will see a lot of people,
often very young kids, who need help and they're just
they're living on the streets so well.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
In Japan has a serious self harm epidemic. Yes, Yes,
has spiked in recent years, Like it peaked in the
early two thousands and then fell for quite some time,
but has really begun to tick up in the twenty twenties,
specifically among women and teens.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Yeah, especially with the teens folks. You can unfortunately correlate
university acceptance letters and college entrance exams with self harm.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
The pressure, the pressure is just so intense, families.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
I'd love to hear an update on this as we
get more information, Like you were saying, Matt, about the
motivation here, which seems so extraordinarily violent, There had to
be some sort of escalation beforehand, right.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
I think so too, And I go back to my mention,
like we've talked about this in the past, like there's
also been an epidemic of like you know, subway stabbings,
and you know, we don't have school shooters in Japan,
but we do have still a mental health epidemic there
that sometimes results in other forms of violence that can
sometimes come off as a real twisted and creative like this, check.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
In with your people, regardless of where you're living.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
Yeah, and in Japan, I believe there's a specific hot
line called the Yossi Rosoi Hotline if you know anybody
that's struggling with mental health or feelings of self harm,
and you can call that at one two oh dash
two seven nine dash three three eight or the Tell
Lifeline at three dash five seven seven four dash nine
(38:35):
nine two. IM not sure how many Japanese listeners we
have out there, or if we have any at all,
but just wanted to put that out there. Maybe you
know somebody living in Japan that's dealing with this, and
that is a resource that I was unaware of that
I just found out. Well, that's it for me for today, guys.
Let's take a quick break. I hear a word from
our sponsor and they'll be back with more strange news.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
And we have returned, so I want to do a
couple of things very quickly, folks, and hopefully you'll ride
along with us. As we mentioned at the top earlier,
we had a conversation regarding parasite called psycho clospora, which
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is unfortunately giving a lot of humans in the United
States explosive diarrhea. When we originally reported on this, the
situation was most apparent in Michigan. It has continued, it
has we could say, fantastasized. This is a very very
(39:44):
tiny thing. We're going to talk a lot about tiny
things here at the end.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
And I had Taco Bell yesterday, Ben am I okay,
you should be. I mean, is there delayed?
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Yeah, what's the old joke. A lot of people say
they get diarrhea Taco Bell, which is weird for me
because I always order the Casadia.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
That's very funny, man, And I'm a crunch trap supreme
guy myself, and it was delicious. I do it as
a treat every now and then. But you know, Taco
Bell is also pretty highly regarded in the world of
fast food, and it has some of the only pretty
significant veggie and vegan options. Maybe not vegan, but definitely veggie.
So what's going on here? What ingredients are we talking about?
Speaker 3 (40:28):
So here's where we're at right now, folks. And we
always want to give our sources. This is coming to
us by the AP. This was published just yesterday, July fourth.
We're recording July fifteenth, twenty twenty six. Taco Bell has
responded to the allegations that they are the source of
(40:50):
the explosive diarrhea outbreak. I know right. Their statement says
they have quote voluntarily and temporarily removed limited ingredients at
select restaurants as a precautionary measure. We will continue to
closely monitor the situation and follow the guidance of public
(41:13):
health authorities end quote. The issue is that Uncle Sam
told people to stop monitoring cyclospora. They told them to
stop looking at it earlier, and now everybody's shitting themselves.
Thanks for the beat freight train.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Dude, it's ben that is that's so crazy because it
is the fresh vegetables and fruits, right, that's.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
The chop lettuce, is there, Pico di gayo? I thought
I heard maybe was also a problem.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Fresh fresh, because there was also they were looking at
berries like blackberries.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
And wash it off. It's it turns out that, as
as Lenin once said, different Lenin, Uh, instant karma is
going to get you. So we hope everybody is pooping
okay and getting fiber, and far be it for us
to disparage the great name of Taco Bell. But we
(42:13):
are saying, this is the kind of stuff that is
going to happen more and more often if you don't
invest in public health. Right, it's happening like what's going
to be the next cause of explosive diary? What's next
explosive vomity? I know you'll love watching clips of that, Matt.
Speaker 4 (42:35):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
There's so much work that must be done to like
right right the ship in so many ways. Did did
you guys see that recent news? I don't think any
of else was going to talk about today, but something
about the tariff repayment?
Speaker 4 (42:49):
Yeah, I saw, Yeah, where's my check man, It's not
only going to get a check, it's going to.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
The company that ripped you off, and they're getting paid,
not lower their price.
Speaker 4 (42:59):
They're getting pad. They're getting paid twice and continuing to
get it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
And it's added a top, by the way, on the
COVID premium that the average US consumer is still paid.
So people are getting squeezed and squeezed and squeezed just
like your sphincter when you're trying to stop having explosive diarrhea.
Good unsuccessfully, Unsuccessfully. It's a herculean Sissapian effort. We've got
(43:27):
to talk about some other small things that are kind
of big deals. I'm gonna I'm gonna read off a
quick list of names, and we'll all play this game together.
Let's figure out what these have in common. Are you ready?
Speaker 4 (43:44):
All right?
Speaker 3 (43:46):
All my exes, Riverwalk, Revolver, Alamo, Lone Star, two Step, Vocano,
Prickly Pair, Texas Ranger, Haystack, Rio Grande, Stockyards, pump Jack,
and giddy Up Pumpjack.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Hell yeah, tequila brands the pretty close, pretty close, my guy.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
Also, Pumpjack is a new moniker we will give to
someone who writes into us Conspiracy radio dot com.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
All right, Okay, I had an accidental fun term that
I type out the other day. I was saying blood pumping,
and I accidentally typed blood pumpkin. And I just think
that that should be a thing aboud pumpkin.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
It feels like it feels like, you know, we always
talk about this on different shows. The British are kind
of the best at insults in English. Yeah, I could
see a British person just like that guy upon City
Market who called someone a shape. I could see a
British person going this blood pumpkin.
Speaker 4 (44:44):
Yeah, exactly, it was he the Shape, like like Michael Myers.
Speaker 3 (44:49):
I hate to ask for another another beep here, but
I was in line at the noodle place that used
to be at our old office and a British guy
was walking around with his friend and someone got in
his way and they were a bigger person and he said, oh,
look at that fucking shape.
Speaker 4 (45:08):
Shape.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
It was so hurtful.
Speaker 4 (45:10):
I heard this though, that Michael Myers is credited in
the first Hally movies Michael Myers, but as the Shape.
I think that's so fascinating.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
He's also called I think he's called the Shape, and
Dead by Daylight as well, which is a weird multiplayer game,
if anybody feels like getting into the weeds. Okay, so Noel,
we're talking about etymology. Matt, you had an amazing guess
on those fourteen phrases, he said, tequila brands. I think
those are excellent ideas. These are the names of Texas towns,
(45:41):
which is very weird.
Speaker 4 (45:42):
I was going to offer up race horses as another
possibility makes more sense.
Speaker 3 (45:47):
On at pump Jack sends my mail to pump Jack.
Speaker 4 (45:51):
That's rad I guess I can see it now. Is
a pump Jack like the thing that makes your gas
pump click and hold.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
I mean, it's America, but it's whatever you want.
Speaker 4 (46:00):
People want to know. Inquiring minds want to know.
Speaker 3 (46:02):
You want to jack that pump. Okay, we're a family show.
Shout out to the good people. Getty up in all
my exes. What's the origin of that name?
Speaker 4 (46:11):
Well, they live in Texas, right, These.
Speaker 3 (46:13):
Are not just the names of Texas related things. These
are now the names of fourteen new viruses that have
recently been discovered by microbiologist Yun Huang and his colleagues
at the Naval Medical Research Unit of San Antonio. These
(46:36):
viruses eat bacteria, which is why we call them bacterial phages.
And I thought it was pretty hilarious. Actually, let me
amend this. I don't think these are all town names.
I think they were just freestyling and wanted to name
what they saw as Texas related things. So this is fascinating, cutesy,
(47:05):
but also kind of terrifying to realize that in one
fell swoop we can find fourteen new forms of life,
you know what I mean? Like? How many others are
out there? Right? Which ones make you poop?
Speaker 2 (47:22):
I'm looking at the images on one of the one
of the links you put in the dock bend Karra News.
Just actual images of these phages and man, those these things,
these forms of life are so puzzling and creepy, and.
Speaker 3 (47:42):
They really force us to reassess what we define as living. Right.
Viruses are right there on the edge because they have
one job. They tend to do it well. But they're
not writing poetry, you know what I mean. They're they're
probably also I don't know, I don't know what they
feel about AI, but it'd be interesting to see bringing
(48:05):
this up just to say more of this. Scientist oftens,
great thinkers of twenty twenty six and beyond, please keep
giving us funny names. At the very least, we know
it's a scary time, and we know there will inevitably
be another pandemic on the way. Check out our recent
(48:25):
episode on that. But there's always time for a punt, right,
is that dickish? I feel like there's always time for.
Speaker 4 (48:34):
Oh always, that's one of our That's one of the
mantras that governs this show and all of our brethren
in the house. Stuff works the universe, and just really quickly,
I guess etymology is the wrong word but just did
want to point out that explosive diarrhea specifically refers to
force full, high volume, watery stools, and this is the
kicker often with urgent cramping and gas. The gas is
(48:56):
where the explosive part comes from. Right, It's the propellent
blast right out of there. Now.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
I don't know why I'm talking about it like an
improvised explosive device now, but it kind of is.
Speaker 4 (49:06):
It really could be.
Speaker 2 (49:08):
Guys, what do you think about a new group of
phages with heavy New York accents? Like you can only
say the names with a heavy New York acas.
Speaker 3 (49:16):
Yeah you got, I'm walking here, Yeah, I'm pooping here.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
You like, force your doctor to explain to you what's
going on with your body, But it would have to
break into a heavy New York accent just for the name.
Speaker 3 (49:29):
I'm sorry, Doc, I can't understand what you're saying. Is
that Latin? No you have I'm pooping here? Yeah, but
again that's just gobbledygook. Oh right right, right, mister Frederick,
I'm pooping here?
Speaker 4 (49:42):
Oh yeah, Doc is a serious It does add a
certain urgency to the proceedings, speaking say it that way.
Speaker 3 (49:50):
Yeah, speaking of urgency and segues the government of China
just to keep us continually updated on the spy news.
The government of chi has detained a US national nuclear
expert on charges of spy. He's a seismologist. He tracks
(50:13):
nuclear test right, that's the best way for us to
learn about stuff like the Vela incident or the atrocities
in the Marshall Islands. His name is Chen Yu Len.
He's fifty four. He was arrested way back in November
of twenty twenty four because he returned to Beijing to
(50:35):
visit family and then he got jammed up hard. Now
China is saying that they are not going to let
him go. Their government line is the same as it's,
same as it ever was, same as it ever was.
(50:55):
They say there is quote no such thing as so
called wrongful tension end quote. Why is this important? It's
important because you need to remember, folks, if you are
part of the Chinese diaspora and you visit the country,
the laws that will apply to you are the laws
(51:17):
that apply to domestic Chinese citizens. Your existence as say
a European national, Latin American, or US national. They don't
really care about that unless your ambassador makes a fuss.
The same thing happens with people from the Iranian diaspora
returning to Iran. It's a very sticky situation. This can
(51:43):
lead to life, imprisonment, or death. And your local country,
your home country, the one you identify with, is often
going to have their hands tied. So just be very
very careful, depending on what you study and depend odd,
I don't know, I don't know how to do. Guys
(52:05):
have never figured out how to do the vibe check
correctly on a long international flight because so much stuff
can happen within you know, thirteen to twenty four hours. Right,
it might be it might be all all violation. Yeah, right,
you're on the plane, right, you get a pony up
for the Wi Fi, You're you're out there and within
(52:28):
that so quickly things can turn. As you're boarding a
plane or you're boarding your cargo ship of choice, it
can all be trumpets and angel farts and singing Hallelujah.
And then by the time you land where it war again.
Speaker 4 (52:43):
Right. I think we should rebrand explosive diarrhea to angel farts.
I'm just putting that out there. I love it.
Speaker 3 (52:48):
Yeah, it feels biblically accurate to Angels.
Speaker 2 (52:52):
So just now softens it a little bit to every song.
Every time I get on a plane. Now, guys, I
just think about whether or not I'm going to have
to hypothetical somebody in the clavicle. You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (53:05):
I mean sclouts, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because.
Speaker 3 (53:10):
If they're filling Froggy, what an amazing sketch. Key and
Peel also shout out to the guy who survived almost
getting sucked out of that plane on Ryan Air?
Speaker 4 (53:21):
You guys, what is Ryan Air? First of all, I
float them, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (53:27):
They're a very low cost yeah trips usually right, yeah,
short domestic trips usually very affordable. Uh tons of up charges. Also,
they sell lottery tickets on the plane, or they used to,
if I remember the right one. But they don't have
like assigned seats or lines.
Speaker 4 (53:48):
Are they eating spirits lunched on that they're gone? Are
they like at that level or.
Speaker 3 (53:52):
I don't know, maybe they'll expand, but they got to
fix those doors. It's like Boeing level bad.
Speaker 2 (53:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (53:57):
I took a frontier flight this past week and it
was awful. It is all those things that you said
up charges and stuff, But we landed and sat on
the runway for two and a half hours waiting for
a gate, only for me to get off the plane
and realize that we were parked at Gate E and
all of the trams were down. I had to walk
for forty five minutes across the entire airport. Man, I'm
(54:20):
sure did get my steps. And it was also two
in the morning, and I was very cranky and walking
alongside some very cranky people.
Speaker 3 (54:28):
Some very cranky people. And also, as you guys know,
I am still working on not being so hype in
exit row seats. I've got to stop looking so excited
when they want the verbal yes, they just want nodded.
I guess.
Speaker 4 (54:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (54:46):
They don't want me to do like two thumbs up
and say today's today. Yeah. My girlfriend was pissed when
I said today's the day. Yeah, that was a long
day as well. You may have read about a lot
of the stories we're discussed seen on a weekly Strange
News segment on social media. Now we have a little
bit of bad news and then a little bit of
(55:08):
good news. A little bit of bad news is specifically you,
our teenage conspiracy realist out in the United Kingdom, your
governments per the business Times. This story just came out
this morning. Your government is planning to make a default
midnight social media curfew for all UK Internet users who
(55:35):
are sixteen to seventeen years old. There's a lot of
implication in that.
Speaker 2 (55:41):
I think, yeah, you might have say if that's good
or not, But as a parent of a not yet
sixteen year old, yay.
Speaker 3 (55:50):
Yeah, but I feel you there, man, it makes sense. Also,
de anonymizing the Internet is ultimately kind of bad.
Speaker 4 (56:04):
Wait really you talked to well, I mean, it's it's
a double edged sword, isn't it, Because there's there's there
would be some knock on consequences that would be as
as much as it seems like the kind of utopian
version of you know, fixing all of the bullying and
all of the things that are a result of anonymity,
I know, there are some real deal negative consequences.
Speaker 2 (56:23):
I was just thinking about the you know, CSAM and
all that, right, you know, like we had this conversation
and we we talked about how, you know, that's what
that's ultimately one of the main things that we want
to get rid of, right, the really bad stuff that
happens anonymously on the Internet. But that's stuff's going to
happen with or without whatever regulation, Okay, I remember.
Speaker 4 (56:45):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (56:45):
And the thing is, I think we're all on the
same page that having some guard rails for young, young
internet users or social media users it is. It is
a good thing objectively, because these are developing human brains.
We have serious concerns about stuff like attention span. How
(57:08):
many times did you check your phone while you were
listening to this, right? How many times are you spending
an entire day without scrolling in the dopamine casinos? So
this can be a godsend to the future of these kids.
But with that, as you were saying, Noel, we do
see some serious dangers for government overreach, right for finding protesters,
(57:35):
for finding people just like Ice now will hunt people
down in the United States for acting the wrong way
on a social media post. Right yeah, don't even get
us started on the people are getting murdered in their vehicles, right.
Speaker 4 (57:53):
Yeah, there was a new one, and I believe it
was killed in front of a small child who was
strapped into a car seat and then dragged from the vehicle.
Speaker 3 (57:59):
Yeah, yep, and sorry, that's a good turn, guys, No,
it did.
Speaker 4 (58:02):
But it's something that we didn't mention, and I'm this
is really really it's intense.
Speaker 3 (58:09):
Yeah, it it is something that we want.
Speaker 4 (58:13):
That behavior isn't done, I guess is the implication. You know,
It's like there was a big moment for it, a
lot of people up in arms, and then it seemed
like ice talk kind of went away. But let's just
not forget that they're still out there in the streets,
you know, doing dirty work.
Speaker 3 (58:27):
Right, And we want we want your take on that, folks,
super important to hear from you, whether you're in the
United States or not. I think you told our World
Cup visitors. Of course, we want a little bit of
maybe good news at the end of our strange news here.
So guys, you know how twice a year we all
(58:50):
have this weird thing we do in the States where
we move the we move the clock up an hour
or back an hour.
Speaker 4 (58:56):
Annoying. It's kind of annoying.
Speaker 3 (58:58):
I like it when you get an exte the day
on that day, it's it's nice. Right. If you like us,
don't care for daylight savings time, you might be interested
to know that the House of Representatives has passed a
bill to make daylight saving time a permanent thing. So
(59:20):
no more switching the clock.
Speaker 4 (59:23):
I mean, the days are going to do what the
days are going to do, irrespective of like what time
we call it.
Speaker 3 (59:28):
Yeah, and we got it. It's such a legacy program.
If you want to learn more about that, go to
AP News. Courtesy of our journalist Kevin freaking f R
E K I n G. Just to be clear, we
hope we're pronouncing that correctly, Kevin. But it makes me
think again about time zones in general, Like the government
(59:50):
of China is very weird about that everybody's technically on
the same time zone despite the size of that country.
You guys aware, like it's got to be wild to
have to run on beij time when you're a weaker.
Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
That's insane. I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (01:00:05):
I didn't either.
Speaker 3 (01:00:06):
Hopefully, Hopefully, guys, we could pass customs and passport control
when we when we visit Chia, and then we could
go on the ground and ask Uncle Gee about it ourselves.
We'll tell him Alane sent us, I remember, yeah, he
walked down the street. Also, do you guys think that
uh Mitch McConnell photograph is real? No, okay, I just
(01:00:31):
want to check I wanted to check off a butt.
Speaker 4 (01:00:34):
I mean I saw a picture that it was like
kind of duped from there, was like a vacation picture.
I believe that was identical. But then you can't even
believe what you're seeing even with that. But no, man,
his skin's way too smooth. He doesn't smile. He looks
like a turtle all the time, with a with a
perma frown. That's it's just not no, not a chance.
Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
No, are you being serious? Do we really is it?
I've seen scuttle but that maybe it's not real, but
I just don't.
Speaker 4 (01:00:57):
No, it doesn't even.
Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
Look real, like it might be an older photograph.
Speaker 4 (01:01:02):
There's funky text on the on the newspaper, y'all. There's
like ai hallucination text and nonsense drivel words so facto. Yeah, man,
it looks like it all of a sudden it goes
into cyrillic or something like that. I mean, it's no, man,
there's not a chance he's wearing he's wearing a like
(01:01:22):
a like a like a like a tablecloth, checkered shirt
and jeans in a hospital bed when he's been in
hospital for a month's time. The man would be not intubated,
but at the very least have like stuff attached to him.
I mean, there's just it just doesn't make it's it's hilarious,
it's laughable.
Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
I'm of the I'm of a similar mind you guys.
We would love to hear your thoughts.
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Folks.
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There are so many other things we want to get
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I think it means we got to do this again.
So are you guys down for that? You do this all? It? Okay?
Speaker 4 (01:02:04):
Okay?
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I wanted to bring something up of guys, I made
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Speaker 4 (01:02:36):
Oh? Yeah, you mean like with the holes.
Speaker 3 (01:02:39):
It's the one where you have you have a snake
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You mean the old school snake like on the calculator.
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I always love version Snake.
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt,
my name is Noel.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
They call me Ben. We're joined as always with our
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they don't want you to know. Welcome to our weekly
Strange news segment. If you are tuning in the evening,
this publishes you have officially survived to July twentieth, twenty
(00:54):
twenty six.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Folks.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
As we know, we discussed this in a recent our
recent listener mail segment. The political news coming in from
the US is that Senator Lindsey Graham has passed away.
His sister has been picked, not elected, to serve in
(01:17):
his place. Do check out our listener mail program for
a little bit more of that. We also, guys, we
also talked just a bit about Donald Trump, current President
of the United States, firing all the people who are
supposed to be in charge of the election.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Must have been an accident over.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Yeah, yes, accidentally hit the big your fired button that
he keeps on his desk, right, right.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Right, There's so much going on, we have a cavalcade
of strange news to share with.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
You on that. On that point though, real quick, did
you hear that there's a he's got big announcement coming
up tomorrow that is likely something to do with declaring
two of our Georgia senators illegitimate?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, I heard there was a big announcement, nol. But
can you tell us a little bit more well?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I know that Asoff and Warnock have been getting a
lot of traction just you know, in terms of the
national conversation around potentially, you know, a Democratic nominee for
the next presidency or the next presidential election. And I
think because of the nature of the election that Trump,
you know, in Georgia in particular, which was a big
hiccup in the twenty twenty election for Trump when there's
(02:36):
that infamous phone call that was recorded of him talking
to I believe his name was Ratzenberg. Yeah, I think
that's right where he was asking him to find quote
unquote find some votes. That is the election. I believe
that these two gentlemen were initially elected in since then,
I believe at least one of them has been re elected.
(02:58):
But it is my understanding that there's internal scuttle butt
that Trump is going to declare them in his you
know whatever, infinite declarability to be illegitimate in the interest
I imagine of just muddying up the conversation. You know,
I don't know, guys, I know you do that. You
can't do that. You can say stuff, but he can't
(03:21):
declare like he's always doing this. I hear by stuff.
It ain't a thing, man.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
So I'm sorry, America. I didn't know I couldn't do that.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Well, but I guess that's the issue. Guys. We talked
about how so much of the things that he does
is basically just a flouting of what has historically been
governed by nothing but decorum and just you know, the
gentleman's agreements. So there, you know, it's really making us
realize how unprotected so many of these things are. That
(03:51):
we're just relying on tradition, and when you have somebody
like Trump who just doesn't care about things like that,
it really goes show you how vulnerable we really are
and whether or not he can do it. He's pretty
infamous for doing stuff and then getting challenged by the
courts later, which can really cause a hiccup. And this
is all seems like it's something to muddy up the
waters of the midterms coming up.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Okay, if they happen.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
If they happen, well, he can't do that either, quote unquote, right.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Well, the thing is the election commissioners. Please check out
our previous episode on the Federal Election Commission. They're supposed
to be our bulldogs for this kind of thing, and
they can't do it if they don't have their jobs.
We're also, you know, I'm fully aware. I think we're
(04:39):
all fully aware that at times our frank, objective discussion
of US politics has maybe ruffled some feathers. And we're
not obviously, folks, Noel, Matt yours truly and freight train.
We are not injecting our opinions. We're looking at what
(05:00):
is occurring, and we're asking questions that everybody should be asking.
I mean, we've got so much going on in the world.
This evening explosive diarrhea right Oh.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
As if it wasn't already on the table with talk.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
About we talked about it earlier in Strange News I
want to say, but we also know there is a
lot going on with the way human society is attempting
to address technology, and there's a lot, there's a lot
on the horizon here.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Oh yeah, one last story just for the opener here,
and speaking of illegitimate things that people don't like, New
Yorkers have effectively rejected the building of new data centers
as of yesterday, July fourteenth, as we record, the governor there,
Kathy Hokeel, signed an executive order yesterday imposing the country's
(05:57):
first statewide moratorium on hyper scale data centers. And it's
because the human beings who live in New York said no,
first state.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
To do so, which, by the way, Matt reminds me of.
We did an investigation into why toilets are largely quote
unquote free in the United States, and it was a
it was like a data center war that we're seeing
again here. Do check out that, god nol. I think
we made that a two part series, didn't we.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I think we did. And really quick, Matt, speaking of
things regarding AI that can be changed by humans, I
think that's the big takeaway here is I think a
lot of us have feel a little bit helpless to
stem the tide, you know, the deluge of AI andification
and infrastructure drain and all of that. There's another interesting
(06:51):
example of people affecting AI through some backlash. Meta has
pulled a new AI image feature. Just getting absolutely clowned
on the internet. They abruptly took down a new feature
that allowed people to use its artificial intelligence to make
fake images from user content on Instagram, advertising it as
a feature not a bug, part of its rollout of
(07:14):
something called muse Image is a new AI image generation
tool allowing folks to essentially use the whole of Instagram
as a pool for material to generate AI images from.
Like again advertising it like this is great. But folks
that just were like, nah, man, this is a bridge
too far. And the company, as massive as they are
(07:34):
and as seemingly unbeholden to anybody as they are, did
walk back that particular feature.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
They seem to keep pulling things, don't They also.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Mark if you're listening, thanks for tuning in. And I
don't think it was a great look for you to
ride up in your yacht after you fired all those people.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Uh, just way that guy listens to this, maybe.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Just pointing it out so the reason we're talking about
the rise of public free toilets. The reason I'm making
this comparison is Illinois was the first state to fully
ban pay toilets, and I think it speaks to your
point Noll regarding New York's decision with data centers, because
(08:23):
once somebody, once one member of a group, stands up,
be they an individual or a state, then we can
hopefully see a domino effect come into play.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Well just see the plot of Ants the movie, or
perhaps a bugs life, but just the idea and mainly
ants that there are way more of us than there
are of them. And as easy it is, as easy
as it is to get so discouraged by all of
this stuff and sort of claim, well, there's nothing I
can do about it, so why even bother. I'm guilty
of that a lot. It's important to have stories like
(08:57):
this that can kind of renew that sense of like
it is possible to make a change just by you know,
being loud.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
We do have to keep in mind, this moratorium is
only for about a year, so it very well could
come back after a year and we're paying attention to
other things and then it just goes through, right, But.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
It represents like a certain we won't stand for this
attitude that could become inconvenient for the folks that would
like to just bulldoze over the world with these things.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
A bell Weather can right in the whole mine of
new technology. And speaking of coming back, will be right
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Speaker 2 (09:45):
And we've returned in boys, it's time to talk stocks
and banks, Stocks and banks. Sure you know how exciting
I love that I got my drum kit.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
A real short of force stocks, the mythical the Ride.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah, we're gonna jump to a quick story coming to
us from The Guardian. On July tenth, South Korea chip
maker sk Heinex rides AI boom, raising twenty six point
five billion dollars US in huge US listing. I'm gonna
read a little bit from this guy's and then we'll
we'll open for comment. Just got to get some of
(10:23):
the details out. The South Korean chip maker sk Heinex
has aimed to raise twenty six and a half billion
dollars as it takes advantage of the AI boom in
what will be one of the world's biggest ever stock sales.
They have plans to issue the equivalent of about eighteen
million shares on NASDAK. You guys remember NASDAK. Yeah, yeah,
(10:48):
I've been inside of their giant video wall thing we have.
It's so weird, very weird back in the day, back
in the good old days. So okay, So they are
on Nasdaq eighteen million shares. They are a supplier of
advanced memory chips two do do in Vidia. They've seen
(11:10):
skyrocketing profits thanks to this whole global race to build
these AI data centers and sk Heinex h y Nix.
They have sored more than two hundred and twenty percent
this year in the soul stock market. So in the
South Korean stock market, and you may ask yourself, okay,
(11:33):
well this is a South Korean company traded on the
South Korean market. What is it doing in the US market. Well,
there's this fun thing that these financial experts have decided
makes sense for US to do. It's called American Depository
shares or ADS. So sk Heinex is being listed on
Nasdaq with these ADS's, which are slices of foreign companies
(11:58):
that get to be traded on US US stock markets.
Each stock that is purchased on Nasdaq is only worth
one tenth of one actual share on the South Korean markets.
Hear that again, guys, one tenth of one share, tiny,
tiny little slice of a thing, and they were wanting
one hundred and forty nine dollars per share per one
(12:22):
tenth of a share.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Wow, Matt, how mean did you get?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I haven't none, zero, because it's insane that If it's
one tenth, then guys, let's do the quick math here.
What's that times ten on four hundred ninety dollars per share?
Come on, that's what I could do.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Are you saying are you saying this is like a
new way of trading stock?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I think this is a thing. I don't know a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I don't think it's new.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yeah, a notification. I got a notification that I'm trying
to find on my personal trade account that had something
to do with with with with fractions of stocks and
a new feature that was being offered, And now I'm
trying to find it again, and I'm wondering if it
had any connection. How does this trickle down to just
like the average, you know, middle class stock trader.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Right Well, well, the the idea for and I'm pulling
this from Investipedia, so thank you Investipedia. The idea here
is that it will be an ADS actually is supposed
to democratize in a way access to a stock market,
because you don't have to be that upper crust echelon
(13:35):
of society to access foreign investment. So an ADS essentially,
like the proponents are going to tell us, it removes
the problem of foreign currency conversion, so now you can
buy things in the petro dollar. But the I think
what we're getting at here is it's a lot like
(13:57):
splitting the stock, isn't.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
It if it's a new shiny product that you can
buy you middle class investor that has a little money
put away stream. But yep, okay. But here's the most
important thing about all of this sk Heinex stuff. This offering,
this IPO, this initial public offering, is being led by
(14:24):
a couple of folks. Bank of America Securities, City Group
Global Markets, Goldman Sachs Asia and JP Morgan Securities. Now
we're going to jump to a couple of things. These
are stories from the past, just to remind us of
who these folks are. This is CNBC December twelfth, twenty
(14:44):
twenty two. How Bank of America achieved a massive comeback
from the brink of collapse. And here's a quote from
Mike Mayo, an analyst with Wells Fargo, to explain to
us what this is.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Bank of America was one reason why much of the
investing public and consumer and government lost faith and trust
in banking. If the government did not intervene for Bank
of America and the other banks, Bank of America would
have failed. Here's another little piece of history for you.
This is from The Guardian, April eleventh, twenty sixteen. Goldman
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Sachs to pay five billion dollars for its role in
the two thousand and eight financial crisis, and a quote
here from Stuart Dellery, the acting Associate Attorney General at
the time. Quote, this resolution holds Goldman Sacks accountable for
its serious misconduct in falsely assuring investors again, falsely assuring
investors that securities that sold were backed by solid mortgages
(15:39):
when it knew they were full of mortgages that were
likely to fail. Last couple here, guys to getting through
this fast. CNBC March sixteenth, twenty eleven. City Group Top's
list of banks who received federal aid. The bank that
exposed the federal government to the greatest potential loss during
the government bailout was City Group, which received a grand
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total of four hundred and seventy six point two billion
dollars in cash and guarantees. These are the folks that
are offering this up to you to buy, to become
a part of it, because remember, you, too, middle class investor,
can become of the big party. There is good news, though,
amongst these high rollers, there is one seemingly sensible player,
(16:24):
JP Morgan Chase You guys remember them, right, Yeah, I
could be very After the financial crisis in eight, they famously,
with the help of the federal government, saved Slash, took
over the failing institutions bear Stearns and Washington Mutual. These
were the saviors of the Great Recession. So at least
(16:46):
if they're in the group, that's good news, right. According
to CNBC, all of these banks right now, you know,
in this timeline, not the one from eight. In this timeline,
they're doing pretty dang well. Here's another story from CNBC
July fourteenth, twenty twenty six. Bank earnings Live updates. Jamie
diamond says AI has helped JP Morgan cut up to
(17:07):
forty percent of jobs in certain roles. Huh here, wait, wait,
Here's here's the kicker. JP Morgan, Chase, Bank of America,
City Group, Goldman Sachs. Remember those, they're all the ones
we're talking about with his IPO and Wells Fargo, though,
adding one more, they all reported earnings Tuesday that beat expectations.
(17:28):
That's Tuesday, yesterday, July fourteenth, As we record. JP Morgan
CEO Jamie Diamond said that all of the company's major
businesses posted record revenue last quarter. He added that, quote,
the US economy has demonstrated notable resiliency this year with
stronger business investment and hiring. Here's the last little thing
(17:50):
he had to say. Diamond said artificial intelligence has helped
the bank cut up to forty percent of jobs in
certain roles, though he noted that most of these people
were offered positions elsewhere in the company. Their stock rose
roughly two percent in midday trading. Isn't that exciting, guys?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
You know it is exciting. I mean, I think you're
being strecufceises there. It's depressing. It's dystopian for sure. Offering
a counter to that, though, did you guys hear the
story about how Ikea used AI to replace certain jobs
but then re directed those humans to more human centric jobs,
like I believe, so it's interesting. Basically, they used AI
(18:32):
to replace some folks that were just doing basic run
of the mill customer service, and then once they did
use that technology to replace those positions, they redirected those
people to essentially act as more hands on home to
core specialists dealing directly with the public, helping make decisions
and make suggestions about like where to put things and
stuff like that. And they also posted profits and positive
(18:58):
you know, economic results as a result of that change.
So I just think it's lazy on a couple of accounts,
like a when companies are just replacing things and removing
jobs and getting rid of people and to cut the
bottom line. But also I think the reporting has a
tendency to be a little bit myopic, because there are
ways that we can hold companies account to use this
(19:20):
technology in a way that is beneficial to humans.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Yeah, well, said Noel, and I at the risk of
sounding far out and conspiratorial here, I am thoroughly convinced,
folks that a lot of the layoffs that we're seeing
in big companies, big Western companies are using AI as
a fig leaf rationalization because it sounds good in a boardroom.
(19:49):
Are sounds like I'm saying, they're not actually laying off
people for the success of AI automation as off then
as the press releases would tell us. I think the
conspiracy is real. Here k shape that got me.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
I think that hits right in the middle of all
the things we're talking about. Ben, I think that's a
really good point. We are, obviously have a lot of
qualms with the use of AI and the corporate roll
out of it and the willy nilly kind of like
thoughtless way it's being pushed out and shoved down a
lot of our throats. But there is a lot of
breathless reporting wrapped up in some dumification of it. And
I think there is a world where it can be
(20:26):
a positive thing. And I think we all know that
that's the reality of these things is somewhere in the middle.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
For me, the unfortunate reality is all of these record
bank profits that are happening, and all of that, what
do you think that's coming from, Guys, It's.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
From FROI investments, It's from the bubble, yeah, but from
money is going back and forth.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
These people are just shaking each other's hands.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
It's one big bender and everybody's just passing the drinks around,
and they're all in the game. They're all in the party.
You can look to the Bank of America CEO Brian moynihan.
Hopefully no relation to Bobby, he said, as one of
the strongest quarters to date for his company. He told
(21:11):
CNBC that it's up to management teams to mitigate the
impact from AI job losses, so good luck management teams.
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said the Bank deal's backlog
is at the highest level in five years. It bodes
well for revenue in future quarters. He also told CNBC
that he sees AI as making people more productive, but
(21:32):
it shouldn't affect their head count. Goldman Sachs stock rose
more than six percent in midday trading. The last thing
to connect all of this together is something that is
happening on the legislative side. We talked a lot about
Jamie Diamond, JP Morgan, they're the saviors. Jamie Diamond's the CEO,
he's been the CEO.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Talk about nominate to determine this.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Yeah, we've mentioned that before. Jamie Diamond. It's not Diamond,
it's Diamond Oh, here's the little thing from Forbes, written
by Alison Durky July thirteenth, a couple of days ago.
JP Morgan maintains Jamie Diamond didn't know Epstein, as Senator
Warren investigates, JP Morgan Chasing Company maintained to Forbes on Monday.
(22:16):
That's this Monday, as we're recording that CEO Jamie Diamond
did not know Jeffrey Epstein and never met him. After
the Epstein files raised new questions about Diamond and JP
Morgan Chase's relationship with the late financier, which.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Also, by the way, Warren Buffett just pulled his donation
to the Gates Foundation.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yes, absolutely relationship with the late financier, which Senator Elizabeth Warren,
a Democrat of Massachusetts, is now investigating. Warren questioned JP
Morgan Chase's quote extended business relationship un quote with Epstein,
who was known to have banked with the institution between
nineteen ninety eight and twenty thirteen, paying some hear this
(22:57):
guys eight billion dollars to the bank in fees over
that time, eight billion dollars in fees to that bank,
and he opened at least one hundred and thirty four
accounts with the banking establishment. Jamie Diamond testified in twenty
twenty three that he never met or knew Epstein, but
(23:17):
emails in the Epstein files show Epstein and then UK
Business Secretary Peter Mandelson we've talked about before, was strategizing
on having Diamond urged the UK government not to approve
a new tax on bankers bonuses. He didn't want them
to approve a new tax on bankers bonuses, which he
ultimately did, though it's unclear if he was at all
(23:38):
influenced by Epstein and Mandelssyn to do so. Warren also
cited last thing here, guys, a twenty ten email in
which Epstein's assistant asked the financier about a meeting with MANDELSSN,
Diamond and JP Morgan Chase executive Jess Stay another person
caught up in the whole thing. That's it, guys, just
(23:59):
reminding ours that these massive financial institutions are run by
folks who apparently have no problem having a client such
as Jeffrey Epstein. But they didn't know, they never met him,
they didn't understand what's happening. They just saw the dollar signs,
which is maybe the biggest problem we're all facing only
seeing the dollar signs.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Well, and speaking of the dollar signs, I just wanted
to add this at the end. This is I think
relatively new news. I noticed that Applestock went waigh the
flip up today, and it comes in the wake of
the news that they are quietly not quietly, I guess,
because it seemed to effect efective the market shopping around
for the acquisition of semiconductor startups in order to supercharge
(24:41):
their artificial intelligence server capabilities, which represents a pretty aggressive
move in the AI arms race, as it's being called.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Mergers and acquisitions. Hey, if you want to check on
sk heinez and how they're doing over there on NASDAK,
you can search sk h y. That's the little handy thing.
They're a little they're a little ticker representative. Currently, as
we record Wednesday, July fifteenth, eleven forty eight am Eastern
Standard time, the price is one hundred and seventy dollars
(25:16):
and six oh five point six oh five. Yeha, it's
way up from the IPO.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Congratulations, Yippika, mother trucker.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
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And we have returned and guys this morning in a
typical wake up and doom scroll at five am moment
that I think we've all kind of had happened probably
from time to time, where you're too tired to get up,
but you're not quite you're a little too wired to
go back to sleep. So ye end, I'm just kind
of doing the old the old scroll. I saw an
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Instagram video from a content creator. I hate the term,
but there we are commenting on a case of a
missing young man who went missing in Mississippi, a guy
named Nolan Wells who disappeared on a barrier island off
of the Gulf Coast of Mississippi after going on a
(26:19):
boating trip with I think four friends, all of whom
were white. And the commentary was regarding a seeming lack
of interest in finding this man after he went missing,
and the remaining dudes in the party just kind of
going back home and not really telling anybody. And this idea,
(26:41):
see this, this idea that he was going to mac
on some lady and left his phone with the boys.
Who nobody does that. There's a lot of little suspicious details.
Get out, very get out, yes, exactly, A bit of
a lackluster manhunt from the Jackson County Share Department and
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then sadly the young man's body was recovered. But it
just some things not lining up, guys, And I actually
feel like this might, as more information does trickle out,
be worth a larger exploration. So I just wanted to
mention that at the top our obviously, our our hearts
are with the family of this young man, mister mister Wells,
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Nolan Wells, but I think we'll hold off on this
one for a for a larger exploration down the line.
So I am going to talk about just to just
kind of horror movie things that have happened in the
news over the last few days. I'll start with a
case of a jealous woman who filed her teeth down
(27:44):
in Moscow. Filed her teeth down in order to ensure
that she would this is a little trigger warning stuff, guys,
sever her husband's penis when biting it off, Yeah, biting
when biting through it, that she would make it a
clean cut. She she filed her tea down. A jealous
wife bid off her husband's penis after sharpening her own
teeth in what medics described as a quote guaranteed act
(28:07):
of bloody revenge. The horror reportedly unfolded in Moscow, Russia,
after the thirty nine year old woman found a message
on her forty one year old husband's phone from another woman,
some raunchy stuff, some sort of you know, hanky panky
that took place in a dream, this woman sends to
the husband. Instead of confronting him and asking about it,
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or you know, confronting the woman, she apparently planned a
meticulously planned this attack that culminated with her severing this
man's member with her filed down teeth. She specifically altered
her teeth in order to achieve that result. Let's see.
(28:51):
He apparently the man has described how she set a
trap for him by cooking dinner before they kind of
got drunk together. His wife cooked dinner, they sat down, drank, ate,
drink some more, and then went to the bed where
she started to you know, put a move on him
as as it were, you know, an old mouth move.
And that is when she, I guess, you know, tripped
(29:15):
the trap or or what do you call it, sprung
the trap. And at that moment she bit right on
through uh and said to him as he screamed, and
of course, you know bled profusely that as she spat
it out and told him it's your own fault. Now
you can't do it with anyone else.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
But where is this coming to us from?
Speaker 4 (29:36):
This is in Russia. This is coming to us from
a couple of sources. This is Ror, Yeah, the Mirror.
This one's I mean certainly tabloid type material, no question.
This was coming from the Star at the UK Star
and also there of course the Sun. Are you seeing
anywhere else? Matter?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Are you?
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Are you questioning the veracity of.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Oh no, I just I just uh, it just sounds
so out there, you know. It's one of those though.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Yeah, let's see what we can find.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
I'm definitely seeing folks Will Stewart and Rihanna Smith writing
for AOL courtesy of The Mirror. But no, I'm not
seeing I'm not seeing the name. The heartbreaking thing that
I am seeing is that the man who survived the attack,
(30:25):
he says there was no infidelity. They have a seven
year old child and now he has to take care
of that kid.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Yeah, no, it's rough. There's obviously some mental health issues
at play here. And yeah, it's really you know, horrific stuff.
And I wouldn't even typically bring these kinds of stories,
but it also popped up in conjunction with another pretty
insane horror movie esque story out of Japan. Masai Sukurai,
(30:55):
forty nine, is a part time worker, was arrested on
Monday in Koga City, an Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo,
after having been found to have sown her roommate's mouth shut.
What a Japanese woman was arrested for allegedly sowing shut
the lips of another woman she was living with, causing
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injuries that left her unable to eat or speak. Police
said Miss Sakurai use a needle and thread to sow
the woman's lips together at around one thirty pm. They
didn't disclose whether Miss Sakarai is admitted to the allegations,
but announced that they were investigating the motive and circumstances
behind the assaults. The victim escaped the house around one
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thirty pm the following day while miss Sakurai was out.
So it sounds like, ah, it's like a it's a
hostage situation. It's like a torture and captivity situation, japan
Today reported. Wearing a white face mask, she ran to
a nearby shop and handed a staff member a note
reading please help me. She was unable to speak because
of her injuries. She later told the police that she
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was scared for her life. The miss Saker I had
prevented her from escaping, and you know, she was essentially
held there. The two folks, the two women had been
living together since twenty twenty five. Police said that other
people had also been staying at the property and they
were questioning them as part of the investigation. I heard
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this one from my buddy Jonesy's Weirdest Weird af News podcast,
and he pointed out something that occurred to me as well,
This really reminds me of like the plot of the
Takashimik horror film Audition. Just there's some you know, there's
not a lot of there's no guns in Japan, there's
very few gun crimes, but there are sure are a
lot of knife crimes and really twisted like you know,
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mutilation crimes. If anyone hasn't seen Audition, it is a
tough watch, but a fantastic film that really talks about
the dynamic between men and women in Japan and this
idea of sort of like holding an audition for your
like you know, new spouse and this is way in
the pre internet dating days. I mean, obviously Japan's on
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the cutting edge of using technology for stuff like dating
much you know, much far ahead of us as a society.
But it really shows some of the pitfalls of that.
It's a fascinating film. Acquaintances of Miss saker I told
local broadcaster a TV Asaki that she had a history
of allowing people who had left their homes so runaway
is to stay with her and had helped some of
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them find work. And you got to start thinking about, well,
is that a trap? Is she like ensnaring them in
order to do horrific things of them as well? Hard
to say, but man, what a specific thing to do
to somebody? What would cause someone to go to such
lengths if they weren't kind of predisposed to do some
(33:55):
pretty horrific twisted things like that. Guys.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Yeah, And there's a is to be clear, folks, if
you've ever visited, especially in parts of Tokyo, you know
there is a quiet crisis in people being unhoused and homeless.
I'm thinking in particular of the so called Kabukicho kids.
It's a tough thing and NOL. I was not familiar
(34:19):
with this story, but I do want to shout out
The Independent. The journalist Dudy Mishra seems to have a
pretty good write up on this.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
Yeah, are there any other details you're seeing in that right? Up? Then?
I was looking at the AOL piece, but I'm very
curious as to what the motives might have been. I
think it might be too early to have any handle
on that.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Well, I just saw on a piece that I looked
up that the attacker in the scenario appears to be
someone who would allow It says specifically women who need
a place to live.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
Like I was saying, I was referring to them as runaways.
But I think you're giving a little more detail. Maybe
it's almost like battered women or women that maybe are
escape domestic assault. Is that what you're employing.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Some it's a pretty dang vague and in the reporting
I'm seeing, but it appears to be just someone who
needs a place to stay. She offered up her place
for them. It said that she would always contact the parents.
That's what the story says before you know making the
arrangement solid. There's just so many unknowns in the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
It's also we should point out this is one of
the things that fascinates me about Japan, and as some
of us are on the road very soon, it's something
we should look into. I don't know if it's an episode,
but we've talked about it a bit on air or
just in texting with each other off air. There is
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a huge industry of companies in Japan that will help
people disappear. I know we've talked about it. There's sometimes
called johatsu.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
But sometimes out of shame for having dishonored their family
or lost a job. It's almost a way of like
exiling themselves so they don't have to answer for the
shaming of their family. Isn't that part of it been.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Yeah, that's part of it. No johatsu it translates in
English to I think evaporation, So people will leave for
any number of reasons, which is technically totally legal in
that country, as long as you know you don't commit
pseudo side and try to fake your death for money.
But the homeless issue or the unhoused issue there comes
(36:31):
from a very strict society that too often has people
falling through the cracks, Like if you go to certain
parts of Tokyo. You will see a lot of people,
often very young kids, who need help and they're just
they're living on the streets so well.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
In Japan has a serious self harm epidemic. Yes, Yes,
has spiked in recent years, Like it peaked in the
early two thousands and then fell for quite some time,
but has really begun to tick up in the twenty twenties,
specifically among women and teens.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Yeah, especially with the teens folks. You can unfortunately correlate
university acceptance letters and college entrance exams with self harm.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
The pressure, the pressure is just so intense, families.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
I'd love to hear an update on this as we
get more information, Like you were saying, Matt, about the
motivation here, which seems so extraordinarily violent, There had to
be some sort of escalation beforehand, right.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
I think so too, And I go back to my mention,
like we've talked about this in the past, like there's
also been an epidemic of like you know, subway stabbings,
and you know, we don't have school shooters in Japan,
but we do have still a mental health epidemic there
that sometimes results in other forms of violence that can
sometimes come off as a real twisted and creative like this, check.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
In with your people, regardless of where you're living.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
Yeah, and in Japan, I believe there's a specific hot
line called the Yossi Rosoi Hotline if you know anybody
that's struggling with mental health or feelings of self harm,
and you can call that at one two oh dash
two seven nine dash three three eight or the Tell
Lifeline at three dash five seven seven four dash nine
(38:35):
nine two. IM not sure how many Japanese listeners we
have out there, or if we have any at all,
but just wanted to put that out there. Maybe you
know somebody living in Japan that's dealing with this, and
that is a resource that I was unaware of that
I just found out. Well, that's it for me for today, guys.
Let's take a quick break. I hear a word from
our sponsor and they'll be back with more strange news.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
And we have returned, so I want to do a
couple of things very quickly, folks, and hopefully you'll ride
along with us. As we mentioned at the top earlier,
we had a conversation regarding parasite called psycho clospora, which
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is unfortunately giving a lot of humans in the United
States explosive diarrhea. When we originally reported on this, the
situation was most apparent in Michigan. It has continued, it
has we could say, fantastasized. This is a very very
(39:44):
tiny thing. We're going to talk a lot about tiny
things here at the end.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
And I had Taco Bell yesterday, Ben am I okay,
you should be. I mean, is there delayed?
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Yeah, what's the old joke. A lot of people say
they get diarrhea Taco Bell, which is weird for me
because I always order the Casadia.
Speaker 4 (40:08):
That's very funny, man, And I'm a crunch trap supreme
guy myself, and it was delicious. I do it as
a treat every now and then. But you know, Taco
Bell is also pretty highly regarded in the world of
fast food, and it has some of the only pretty
significant veggie and vegan options. Maybe not vegan, but definitely veggie.
So what's going on here? What ingredients are we talking about?
Speaker 3 (40:28):
So here's where we're at right now, folks. And we
always want to give our sources. This is coming to
us by the AP. This was published just yesterday, July fourth.
We're recording July fifteenth, twenty twenty six. Taco Bell has
responded to the allegations that they are the source of
(40:50):
the explosive diarrhea outbreak. I know right. Their statement says
they have quote voluntarily and temporarily removed limited ingredients at
select restaurants as a precautionary measure. We will continue to
closely monitor the situation and follow the guidance of public
(41:13):
health authorities end quote. The issue is that Uncle Sam
told people to stop monitoring cyclospora. They told them to
stop looking at it earlier, and now everybody's shitting themselves.
Thanks for the beat freight train.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Dude, it's ben that is that's so crazy because it
is the fresh vegetables and fruits, right, that's.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
The chop lettuce, is there, Pico di gayo? I thought
I heard maybe was also a problem.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Fresh fresh, because there was also they were looking at
berries like blackberries.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
And wash it off. It's it turns out that, as
as Lenin once said, different Lenin, Uh, instant karma is
going to get you. So we hope everybody is pooping
okay and getting fiber, and far be it for us
to disparage the great name of Taco Bell. But we
(42:13):
are saying, this is the kind of stuff that is
going to happen more and more often if you don't
invest in public health. Right, it's happening like what's going
to be the next cause of explosive diary? What's next
explosive vomity? I know you'll love watching clips of that, Matt.
Speaker 4 (42:35):
Guys.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
There's so much work that must be done to like
right right the ship in so many ways. Did did
you guys see that recent news? I don't think any
of else was going to talk about today, but something
about the tariff repayment?
Speaker 4 (42:49):
Yeah, I saw, Yeah, where's my check man, It's not
only going to get a check, it's going to.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
The company that ripped you off, and they're getting paid,
not lower their price.
Speaker 4 (42:59):
They're getting pad. They're getting paid twice and continuing to
get it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
And it's added a top, by the way, on the
COVID premium that the average US consumer is still paid.
So people are getting squeezed and squeezed and squeezed just
like your sphincter when you're trying to stop having explosive diarrhea.
Good unsuccessfully, Unsuccessfully. It's a herculean Sissapian effort. We've got
(43:27):
to talk about some other small things that are kind
of big deals. I'm gonna I'm gonna read off a
quick list of names, and we'll all play this game together.
Let's figure out what these have in common. Are you ready?
Speaker 4 (43:44):
All right?
Speaker 3 (43:46):
All my exes, Riverwalk, Revolver, Alamo, Lone Star, two Step, Vocano,
Prickly Pair, Texas Ranger, Haystack, Rio Grande, Stockyards, pump Jack,
and giddy Up Pumpjack.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Hell yeah, tequila brands the pretty close, pretty close, my guy.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
Also, Pumpjack is a new moniker we will give to
someone who writes into us Conspiracy radio dot com.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
All right, Okay, I had an accidental fun term that
I type out the other day. I was saying blood pumping,
and I accidentally typed blood pumpkin. And I just think
that that should be a thing aboud pumpkin.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
It feels like it feels like, you know, we always
talk about this on different shows. The British are kind
of the best at insults in English. Yeah, I could
see a British person just like that guy upon City
Market who called someone a shape. I could see a
British person going this blood pumpkin.
Speaker 4 (44:44):
Yeah, exactly, it was he the Shape, like like Michael Myers.
Speaker 3 (44:49):
I hate to ask for another another beep here, but
I was in line at the noodle place that used
to be at our old office and a British guy
was walking around with his friend and someone got in
his way and they were a bigger person and he said, oh,
look at that fucking shape.
Speaker 4 (45:08):
Shape.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
It was so hurtful.
Speaker 4 (45:10):
I heard this though, that Michael Myers is credited in
the first Hally movies Michael Myers, but as the Shape.
I think that's so fascinating.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
He's also called I think he's called the Shape, and
Dead by Daylight as well, which is a weird multiplayer game,
if anybody feels like getting into the weeds. Okay, so Noel,
we're talking about etymology. Matt, you had an amazing guess
on those fourteen phrases, he said, tequila brands. I think
those are excellent ideas. These are the names of Texas towns,
(45:41):
which is very weird.
Speaker 4 (45:42):
I was going to offer up race horses as another
possibility makes more sense.
Speaker 3 (45:47):
On at pump Jack sends my mail to pump Jack.
Speaker 4 (45:51):
That's rad I guess I can see it now. Is
a pump Jack like the thing that makes your gas
pump click and hold.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
I mean, it's America, but it's whatever you want.
Speaker 4 (46:00):
People want to know. Inquiring minds want to know.
Speaker 3 (46:02):
You want to jack that pump. Okay, we're a family show.
Shout out to the good people. Getty up in all
my exes. What's the origin of that name?
Speaker 4 (46:11):
Well, they live in Texas, right, These.
Speaker 3 (46:13):
Are not just the names of Texas related things. These
are now the names of fourteen new viruses that have
recently been discovered by microbiologist Yun Huang and his colleagues
at the Naval Medical Research Unit of San Antonio. These
(46:36):
viruses eat bacteria, which is why we call them bacterial phages.
And I thought it was pretty hilarious. Actually, let me
amend this. I don't think these are all town names.
I think they were just freestyling and wanted to name
what they saw as Texas related things. So this is fascinating, cutesy,
(47:05):
but also kind of terrifying to realize that in one
fell swoop we can find fourteen new forms of life,
you know what I mean? Like? How many others are
out there? Right? Which ones make you poop?
Speaker 2 (47:22):
I'm looking at the images on one of the one
of the links you put in the dock bend Karra News.
Just actual images of these phages and man, those these things,
these forms of life are so puzzling and creepy, and.
Speaker 3 (47:42):
They really force us to reassess what we define as living. Right.
Viruses are right there on the edge because they have
one job. They tend to do it well. But they're
not writing poetry, you know what I mean. They're they're
probably also I don't know, I don't know what they
feel about AI, but it'd be interesting to see bringing
(48:05):
this up just to say more of this. Scientist oftens,
great thinkers of twenty twenty six and beyond, please keep
giving us funny names. At the very least, we know
it's a scary time, and we know there will inevitably
be another pandemic on the way. Check out our recent
(48:25):
episode on that. But there's always time for a punt, right,
is that dickish? I feel like there's always time for.
Speaker 4 (48:34):
Oh always, that's one of our That's one of the
mantras that governs this show and all of our brethren
in the house. Stuff works the universe, and just really quickly,
I guess etymology is the wrong word but just did
want to point out that explosive diarrhea specifically refers to
force full, high volume, watery stools, and this is the
kicker often with urgent cramping and gas. The gas is
(48:56):
where the explosive part comes from. Right, It's the propellent
blast right out of there. Now.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
I don't know why I'm talking about it like an
improvised explosive device now, but it kind of is.
Speaker 4 (49:06):
It really could be.
Speaker 2 (49:08):
Guys, what do you think about a new group of
phages with heavy New York accents? Like you can only
say the names with a heavy New York acas.
Speaker 3 (49:16):
Yeah you got, I'm walking here, Yeah, I'm pooping here.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
You like, force your doctor to explain to you what's
going on with your body, But it would have to
break into a heavy New York accent just for the name.
Speaker 3 (49:29):
I'm sorry, Doc, I can't understand what you're saying. Is
that Latin? No you have I'm pooping here? Yeah, but
again that's just gobbledygook. Oh right right, right, mister Frederick,
I'm pooping here?
Speaker 4 (49:42):
Oh yeah, Doc is a serious It does add a
certain urgency to the proceedings, speaking say it that way.
Speaker 3 (49:50):
Yeah, speaking of urgency and segues the government of China
just to keep us continually updated on the spy news.
The government of chi has detained a US national nuclear
expert on charges of spy. He's a seismologist. He tracks
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nuclear test right, that's the best way for us to
learn about stuff like the Vela incident or the atrocities
in the Marshall Islands. His name is Chen Yu Len.
He's fifty four. He was arrested way back in November
of twenty twenty four because he returned to Beijing to
(50:35):
visit family and then he got jammed up hard. Now
China is saying that they are not going to let
him go. Their government line is the same as it's,
same as it ever was, same as it ever was.
(50:55):
They say there is quote no such thing as so
called wrongful tension end quote. Why is this important? It's
important because you need to remember, folks, if you are
part of the Chinese diaspora and you visit the country,
the laws that will apply to you are the laws
(51:17):
that apply to domestic Chinese citizens. Your existence as say
a European national, Latin American, or US national. They don't
really care about that unless your ambassador makes a fuss.
The same thing happens with people from the Iranian diaspora
returning to Iran. It's a very sticky situation. This can
(51:43):
lead to life, imprisonment, or death. And your local country,
your home country, the one you identify with, is often
going to have their hands tied. So just be very
very careful, depending on what you study and depend odd,
I don't know, I don't know how to do. Guys
(52:05):
have never figured out how to do the vibe check
correctly on a long international flight because so much stuff
can happen within you know, thirteen to twenty four hours. Right,
it might be it might be all all violation. Yeah, right,
you're on the plane, right, you get a pony up
for the Wi Fi, You're you're out there and within
(52:28):
that so quickly things can turn. As you're boarding a
plane or you're boarding your cargo ship of choice, it
can all be trumpets and angel farts and singing Hallelujah.
And then by the time you land where it war again.
Speaker 4 (52:43):
Right. I think we should rebrand explosive diarrhea to angel farts.
I'm just putting that out there. I love it.
Speaker 3 (52:48):
Yeah, it feels biblically accurate to Angels.
Speaker 2 (52:52):
So just now softens it a little bit to every song.
Every time I get on a plane. Now, guys, I
just think about whether or not I'm going to have
to hypothetical somebody in the clavicle. You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (53:05):
I mean sclouts, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because.
Speaker 3 (53:10):
If they're filling Froggy, what an amazing sketch. Key and
Peel also shout out to the guy who survived almost
getting sucked out of that plane on Ryan Air?
Speaker 4 (53:21):
You guys, what is Ryan Air? First of all, I
float them, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (53:27):
They're a very low cost yeah trips usually right, yeah,
short domestic trips usually very affordable. Uh tons of up charges. Also,
they sell lottery tickets on the plane, or they used to,
if I remember the right one. But they don't have
like assigned seats or lines.
Speaker 4 (53:48):
Are they eating spirits lunched on that they're gone? Are
they like at that level or.
Speaker 3 (53:52):
I don't know, maybe they'll expand, but they got to
fix those doors. It's like Boeing level bad.
Speaker 2 (53:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (53:57):
I took a frontier flight this past week and it
was awful. It is all those things that you said
up charges and stuff, But we landed and sat on
the runway for two and a half hours waiting for
a gate, only for me to get off the plane
and realize that we were parked at Gate E and
all of the trams were down. I had to walk
for forty five minutes across the entire airport. Man, I'm
(54:20):
sure did get my steps. And it was also two
in the morning, and I was very cranky and walking
alongside some very cranky people.
Speaker 3 (54:28):
Some very cranky people. And also, as you guys know,
I am still working on not being so hype in
exit row seats. I've got to stop looking so excited
when they want the verbal yes, they just want nodded.
I guess.
Speaker 4 (54:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (54:46):
They don't want me to do like two thumbs up
and say today's today. Yeah. My girlfriend was pissed when
I said today's the day. Yeah, that was a long
day as well. You may have read about a lot
of the stories we're discussed seen on a weekly Strange
News segment on social media. Now we have a little
bit of bad news and then a little bit of
(55:08):
good news. A little bit of bad news is specifically you,
our teenage conspiracy realist out in the United Kingdom, your
governments per the business Times. This story just came out
this morning. Your government is planning to make a default
midnight social media curfew for all UK Internet users who
(55:35):
are sixteen to seventeen years old. There's a lot of
implication in that.
Speaker 2 (55:41):
I think, yeah, you might have say if that's good
or not, But as a parent of a not yet
sixteen year old, yay.
Speaker 3 (55:50):
Yeah, but I feel you there, man, it makes sense. Also,
de anonymizing the Internet is ultimately kind of bad.
Speaker 4 (56:04):
Wait really you talked to well, I mean, it's it's
a double edged sword, isn't it, Because there's there's there
would be some knock on consequences that would be as
as much as it seems like the kind of utopian
version of you know, fixing all of the bullying and
all of the things that are a result of anonymity,
I know, there are some real deal negative consequences.
Speaker 2 (56:23):
I was just thinking about the you know, CSAM and
all that, right, you know, like we had this conversation
and we we talked about how, you know, that's what
that's ultimately one of the main things that we want
to get rid of, right, the really bad stuff that
happens anonymously on the Internet. But that's stuff's going to
happen with or without whatever regulation, Okay, I remember.
Speaker 4 (56:45):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (56:45):
And the thing is, I think we're all on the
same page that having some guard rails for young, young
internet users or social media users it is. It is
a good thing objectively, because these are developing human brains.
We have serious concerns about stuff like attention span. How
(57:08):
many times did you check your phone while you were
listening to this, right? How many times are you spending
an entire day without scrolling in the dopamine casinos? So
this can be a godsend to the future of these kids.
But with that, as you were saying, Noel, we do
see some serious dangers for government overreach, right for finding protesters,
(57:35):
for finding people just like Ice now will hunt people
down in the United States for acting the wrong way
on a social media post. Right yeah, don't even get
us started on the people are getting murdered in their vehicles, right.
Speaker 4 (57:53):
Yeah, there was a new one, and I believe it
was killed in front of a small child who was
strapped into a car seat and then dragged from the vehicle.
Speaker 3 (57:59):
Yeah, yep, and sorry, that's a good turn, guys, No,
it did.
Speaker 4 (58:02):
But it's something that we didn't mention, and I'm this
is really really it's intense.
Speaker 3 (58:09):
Yeah, it it is something that we want.
Speaker 4 (58:13):
That behavior isn't done, I guess is the implication. You know,
It's like there was a big moment for it, a
lot of people up in arms, and then it seemed
like ice talk kind of went away. But let's just
not forget that they're still out there in the streets,
you know, doing dirty work.
Speaker 3 (58:27):
Right, And we want we want your take on that, folks,
super important to hear from you, whether you're in the
United States or not. I think you told our World
Cup visitors. Of course, we want a little bit of
maybe good news at the end of our strange news here.
So guys, you know how twice a year we all
(58:50):
have this weird thing we do in the States where
we move the we move the clock up an hour
or back an hour.
Speaker 4 (58:56):
Annoying. It's kind of annoying.
Speaker 3 (58:58):
I like it when you get an exte the day
on that day, it's it's nice. Right. If you like us,
don't care for daylight savings time, you might be interested
to know that the House of Representatives has passed a
bill to make daylight saving time a permanent thing. So
(59:20):
no more switching the clock.
Speaker 4 (59:23):
I mean, the days are going to do what the
days are going to do, irrespective of like what time
we call it.
Speaker 3 (59:28):
Yeah, and we got it. It's such a legacy program.
If you want to learn more about that, go to
AP News. Courtesy of our journalist Kevin freaking f R
E K I n G. Just to be clear, we
hope we're pronouncing that correctly, Kevin. But it makes me
think again about time zones in general, Like the government
(59:50):
of China is very weird about that everybody's technically on
the same time zone despite the size of that country.
You guys aware, like it's got to be wild to
have to run on beij time when you're a weaker.
Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
That's insane. I didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (01:00:05):
I didn't either.
Speaker 3 (01:00:06):
Hopefully, Hopefully, guys, we could pass customs and passport control
when we when we visit Chia, and then we could
go on the ground and ask Uncle Gee about it ourselves.
We'll tell him Alane sent us, I remember, yeah, he
walked down the street. Also, do you guys think that
uh Mitch McConnell photograph is real? No, okay, I just
(01:00:31):
want to check I wanted to check off a butt.
Speaker 4 (01:00:34):
I mean I saw a picture that it was like
kind of duped from there, was like a vacation picture.
I believe that was identical. But then you can't even
believe what you're seeing even with that. But no, man,
his skin's way too smooth. He doesn't smile. He looks
like a turtle all the time, with a with a
perma frown. That's it's just not no, not a chance.
Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
No, are you being serious? Do we really is it?
I've seen scuttle but that maybe it's not real, but
I just don't.
Speaker 4 (01:00:57):
No, it doesn't even.
Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
Look real, like it might be an older photograph.
Speaker 4 (01:01:02):
There's funky text on the on the newspaper, y'all. There's
like ai hallucination text and nonsense drivel words so facto. Yeah, man,
it looks like it all of a sudden it goes
into cyrillic or something like that. I mean, it's no, man,
there's not a chance he's wearing he's wearing a like
(01:01:22):
a like a like a like a tablecloth, checkered shirt
and jeans in a hospital bed when he's been in
hospital for a month's time. The man would be not intubated,
but at the very least have like stuff attached to him.
I mean, there's just it just doesn't make it's it's hilarious,
it's laughable.
Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
I'm of the I'm of a similar mind you guys.
We would love to hear your thoughts.
Speaker 4 (01:01:43):
Folks.
Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
Thank you as old ways so much for tuning in there.
There are so many other things we want to get
to which Hey, just to put you guys on the spot. Uh,
I think it means we got to do this again.
So are you guys down for that? You do this all? It? Okay?
Speaker 4 (01:02:04):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
I wanted to bring something up of guys, I made
a terrible mistake, wonderful thing. Uh, we're so if you're
listening to this, you are not on Netflix. Our show
twice a week has episodes on Netflix if you have
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(01:02:27):
you guys, Yes, I didn't. I didn't realize. I downloaded
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Speaker 4 (01:02:36):
Oh? Yeah, you mean like with the holes.
Speaker 3 (01:02:39):
It's the one where you have you have a snake
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around a grid and you have to dodge stuff and
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Speaker 4 (01:02:49):
You mean the old school snake like on the calculator.
Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
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Speaker 4 (01:02:53):
I always love version Snake.
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We have a standing interest in random facts, so qui
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well aware yet out afraid. Sometimes the void rights back
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conspiracy realists. Later this evening, play a Vampire Rules Summer
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I say to to a lot of friends here. CA
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