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You're listening to the January Grand News Talk today, we are live to tape on June 17th, 2022. This is episode 498, apocalyptic days. Signing on from out the grid, Razzle Dazzle on your best buddy, Basil. And my name is Gons, your favorite Asian provocateur for Christ, aka the Cabana Boy podcasting live from California here to serve you.
A show that brings you the best news, which is the Gospel message of Jesus Christ. Well, reporting that it agrees with a well-rounded, biblically grounded take on world events. I have my shades on today, long story short. Looking cool.
Classes are being repaired. So the only prescription things that I have are my shades, but I might fall in love with one of my shades on live. I mean, it's a cool look, man. It's a cool look.
It could be a new thing. Old Gons, the Cabana Boy Cool Boy. I mean, it really fits. I like it a lot.
All right. Well, we've got we're going to be kind of zoom in. I've got an extremely hard deadline to get off the show today for me. And if I have if the show's not finished, I'm going to pull the rip cord, a boy will finish the show parachute out the back of the plane and Cabana boy will land the plane with everybody safely inside by just giving everybody a little little update there in case, you know, just in case.
But Gons, are you ready to hear about what this show has in store? Oh, yeah. Music's already rolling. Oh, yeah.
OK, we're going to be starting out with our lead stories. A collection of truly alarming climate change communications coming from the mainstream lost to analyze there. And then, of course, we're going to be checking in with a couple of the four horsemen of the Technocalypts Bill Gates and Elon Musk, both making waves as usual. Flippy's going to be coming in and showing us just how popular he is.
We got a couple AI updates, both with the Google engineer, which oh my gosh, just really feeds into the whole narrative there as well as how AI is being used to terrorize your children in school. We've got a funny little update regarding challenge coins, not just ours, but challenge coins around the country. And then after the break, we're going to say bid adieu to the YouTubers, checking on COVID. Of course, what's going on with Anthony Fauci, Rand Paul.
Come on, they're always going out at heavy weight battle of the century and ending out with some Antarctica at the end of the show. So it's going to be good. Gons, I'm excited. And with that, oh, yeah.
With that, yeah. We're going to go on today. Hey, guys. We're going to go wrong.
Let's do it. Sorry. It's interesting. Like the two, I'm going to play climate change.
Climate change. Oh, man. It's a sprinkle of China in there, too. What's going on?
World's fall apart. Well, you know, everything has a little sprinkle of China now, guys. But it's so nice hearing Greta's voice again. I guess I misgrat up.
All right. So a few things going on. I'm going to start out with this outlet called Grist. We have brought stories from Grist before, but it is not often.
It's not grist. No, it's grist. Okay. The headline is summer has transformed.
You ready, Gons? Summer has transformed into quote danger season. Scientists were sorry, kids. Summer is out.
Summer is old news. It's now called danger season. I mean, if there is anything more apocalyptic than changing the name of summer to danger season, I mean, the script writers are really just making it scary. So let me tell you what's going on here.
It reads like this. Summer has remained mostly the same for a millennium or more. Around the year 900, old English speakers were already using the word sumo for the warmer months. The word summer is probably close to the version heard 4000 years ago when people spoke the prehistoric Indo-European language believed to be the ancestor to many languages spoken across Europe and India today.
That has nothing to do with anything. It's just a beautiful flavor to start out the article because next, but summer isn't what it used to be. Oh, you're telling me grist, you know, not a kid anymore, man. Summer is totally different.
I got emails to take care of. I got to spritz them every morning. Keep them cool. Summer isn't what it used to be.
The season is getting so hot that it might be time for a new name danger season. This phrase, part of a new campaign by the Union of Concerned Scientists refers to the period from May to October marked by a drumbeat of disasters in the United States. During these months, people across the country still splash in pools and head to the beach, but increasingly they also suffer through heat waves, flee from wildfires, breathe, smokey air and board up homes as hurricanes. Danger season.
Union of Concerned Scientists is a very fun name for an organization. Yeah. You need problems for this organization to exist. If they run out of problems.
It's got such an elementary vibe. It's very simple. You know, it's, I don't know, there's something simple about it. We are scientists and we are a bunch of them and we are concerned.
That is what our organization is all about. We should start the organization for what is it? Union of Concerned Podcasters. Yeah.
You know, that's not hard. We could start at like a nonprofit. Except we can be more transparent. We'll be the union of anxiety-ridden podcasters.
No, God. A quote, climate change has pushed a lot of these types of events into a new realm that is much more dangerous. Said Kristi Dahl, a climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Quote, so as we were thinking about this season, you just got a, the union of concerned scientists got together and they're just sort of thinking about summer.
They're just, what do you guys think about summer? And the quote continues. And how we're going to respond to it, the phrase danger season seemed appropriate. Hmm.
What are you drinking, man? Kristi Dahl, what? It sounds like a season, man. Okay.
It makes so much sense. All right. Not very creative. It's not as opposed to me.
It's, I don't know. It just sounds like she's drinking too much and watching movie or something. Oh, there's more. Oh, you think if they're drinking too much now, you hold on.
Consider, for example, that heat kills more people in the US each year on average than any other kind of extreme weather, often in predictable ways. Every summer, older adults die in their homes without access to air conditioning and young athletes die from heatstroke while practicing in searing temperatures. Quote, these sorts of deaths are preventable, Dahl said. Mm-hmm.
There you are. Get air conditioning. And don't practice in searing temperatures. In quota, that would be my suggestion.
But look, I'm not a concerned scientist. I'm a concerned podcaster. She hopes the framing of danger season and better help people grasp summer threats. Quote, because if you understand it, then you can start to do something about it.
And this is what I love. Okay. There's a scientist getting together and saying, you know what, people don't understand summer. They think they get it, but they don't understand summer.
They think it's all popsicles and sitting by the pool, you know, they don't know it's dangerous. So this language of framing of danger season, this is a linguistic and rhetorical method that they're using. I don't be. They're linguistic programming.
Program the fear right into the masses by calling it danger season. And we've seen it over and over and over the past couple of years, especially, you know, they just take something normal and they rename it or redefine it or read whatever it to suit this sort of alarmist thing. And they literally are admitting we are trying to alarm you. That's not to say, Dahl wants to replace the word summer or take away your ice cream cones or days at the beach.
But you know, we struggled a bit with feeling like we're taking away the joy of summer. Oh, no kidding. No kidding. Kidding.
Kristy, Dahl, I'm glad you thought about that, but I love it because they're like, yeah, we struggled a little bit, but we decided we would completely take the fun out of summer because we're concerned. It's possible that a cultural affection for hot weather might make people overlook the season's dangers. But for some, that sunny attitude is already changing where Dahl lives in California as in much of the Western US summer means fires smoke and comes with an annual sense of red. Okay.
I'm just going to run through some of the summary details because I did some, you know, some reading of analysis. There's also, I'm getting a buzz that's getting a lot of, I don't know if it's coming from you, but continue. Oh, interesting. Yeah.
Sorry. I can't hear. I can do something about it. Oh, yeah.
Something funky is going. Okay. I will attempt to do something about that in a second. So here's the thing.
It has been a hot year. It's been a hot year. We can all admit that. However, as is common for all of these super scary climate change records being broken and set, it's always like, oh, it's the hottest time in California ever since 19.
46. Okay. Well, those hotter in 1946. Yeah, a lot hotter actually.
Okay. So, but you're saying this is new and doesn't make any sense and it's climate change and we all need to ride bicycles instead of driving cars. Yes. Okay.
What were they doing in 1946? That was normal. This one is different. Okay.
If you say so, if you're a concerned scientist, I must listen. Also, when it comes to fires, of course, fires, fire season has always been a thing, especially on the West Coast. However, last year, which was like a record breaking fire season, half of the fires were started by arsonists. They were starting to remember the bear P drinking shaman woman who set one of the biggest fires.
Yeah, they were wrapping all those, those barns and tin foil. Yeah. And you had the crazy guy who was it? Was it the Dixie fire was set by an arsonist?
Like half of the fires were set by arsonists. We were going to go on vacation and our vacation spot burned down right before we went. I remember. That's right.
And I believe that one was an arson. Yep. And it's been postulated and conspiracy theorized that these are arson. They're always like hippie, dippy, eco warriors, setting these fires.
That's just the fact. Yeah. But it's, you know, the theory is, yeah, they're trying to create a disaster. So, you know, the Hegelian dialectic problem, reaction solution.
Yes. Anyways, so there's that. The new foreboding name for summer was coined by Erica Spanger-Seek-Read. Thank you, Erica.
An analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists, the organization introduced the phrase in a pair of blog posts. And that's why I'm just going to stop on that paragraph because this was just a blog post, which is awesome. We should start writing blog posts and maybe we can start renaming them. We can, yeah, we'll write a blog post and then we'll get a report on the blog post and we will affect change in the world.
This is how it works. Yeah. I'm going to skip a bunch. They kind of make a point about, yeah, it's summer and it's hot and it's really hot.
And then there's a hurricane. That's scary. But then it's hot right after the hurricane. And so people are trying to make their, you know, build their homes and it's hot.
Yeah. Well, it's scary and you know, there's a concern to be had, obviously. But concerns stack. Don't get me wrong.
They stack upon one another, especially if you're a baby. This is a guardian. Key US baby formula plant closes again as torrential storms cause flooding. Danger, danger season.
Danger season. That's right. Killing babies. This is the same baby fact, baby formula factory that was closed down because of, you know, poor health problems and corruption in the FDA and ignorance by the Biden administration.
They finally got it up and running again. And apparently there's a rainstorm and it flooded. And so, you know, the Abbott laboratories, the US is the largest baby formula manufacturer, closed down production and its main plants in Sturgis, Michigan on Thursday because of flooding caused by torrential storms. Interesting that you get called out by the media for all the shenanigans going on in the background and then a flood causes damage.
And their official statement here talks about how they need to assess the damage caused by the storm and clean and resanitize the plant. So it's like, oh, okay. All right. You're getting a baby.
You need like a biblical flood to reset the entire factory. That's what this is. But I don't know. Pretty suspicious.
But also the unspoken sort of theme here is it's not corruption that's preventing baby food being made and getting proper baby food into babies' bellies. No, it's climate change. Yeah. So it's not the six months that the Biden administration knew about it.
Right. Right. And some might even postulate exacerbated the problem. No, no, no, it's rain.
It's dangerous. Danger seasons killing babies now. And we also, yeah, older adults without air conditioning, young adults playing sports and a rainstorm at the baby factory. One other little climate change thing here is coming from Washington Post.
EPA warns toxic forever chemicals. Oh, good. More dangerous than once thought. We changed this headline and that is not what it used to be, but you'll get the point here.
The Environmental Protection Agency warned Wednesday that a group of human-made chemicals found in the drinking water cosmetics and food packaging used by millions of Americans poses a greater danger to human health than regular or regulators previously thought, which is not. Let's keep going. The new health advisories for a ubiquitous class of compounds known as a bunch of big sciencey words or PFAS underscore the risk-facing dozens of communities across the country linked to infertility, thyroid problems, and several types of cancer. These forever chemicals can persist in the environment for years without breaking down.
Oh, infertility. Interesting. Yeah, weird. It's like they're trying to depopulate the world or something, but that's just crazy talking.
It's just, you know. It talks about how the government does not regulate these chemicals. They've actually known about these chemicals for a long time, but the EPA has said that, yeah, there are safe amounts of them. And yeah, it's totally fine.
Everybody should be fine. Don't worry about it. And turns out, no, there is zero safe amounts of these chemicals that can be... So, I can see officials assessed two of the most common ones, PFOA and PFOS, in recent human health studies and announced Wednesday that lifetime exposure staggeringly low levels of .004 and .02 parts per trillion, respectively.
That's not per million or billion, which is usually how these measurements are. This is per trillion and compromise the immune and cardiovascular systems and are linked to decreased birth weights. I want to get to... It goes into more of those types of numbers, so that the long story short is that it's horrible and everybody's going to die of it.
Oh, man, they have changed this article since they first had it. To summarize for you, folks, they did tests of 1900, 1900 water supplies across the country and found every single one of these water supplies had unsafe levels of these forever chemicals that will never leave the water supply. And they kind of just stopped because they were like, oh, okay, it is just everywhere and there's nothing we can do about it. We're just going to assume that it's in everybody else's water as well.
And I'm scanning. I think they took that part out of the thing. Wow. I mean, talk about alarmism.
It's dangerous season and they didn't want to scare people that these chemicals are in pretty much every water supply unit. The EPA should stand for Evil Pagan Associates. Sounds like a law firm. Hi, well, have you been injured in a forever chemical attack?
Well, evil, dangerous, associates. Pagan. Many residents. Okay, so one of these communities was from the Michigan, for instance, have heated warnings from state health officials and stopped drinking untreated well water and eating deer hunted near the now-shuddered Wurtsmurth Air Force base.
So they don't even eat the animals that are drinking the water. Wow. Because it's a forever chemical. Nothing breaks it down.
So if it offish eats it, then you eat the fish, you get it. You drink it and you eat the deer, then you get it. It's really, really concerning. You've pixelated to a freeze on the video, which is fun.
All right. I'll come back in a second. So there you go. That's a long story short.
We're kind of in a, we're moving along today, but just know that these chemicals are probably in your water and there's nothing you can do about it. Now they do. There are some filtration systems that can be used. However, they are astronomically expensive.
One of these on one well is like a half a million dollars. Shit, listen to Alice Jones. 15 years ago. I bought my water thing.
I know. So, you know, just another reason to go out into the forest and water from bubble. That's my suggestion. You got to fix your sound too, I guess, because something's buzzing really loud.
I don't know. It could be me. I don't know because it could be on my end. I don't know what's happening, but let's just continue here.
What is your skills about the four horsemen and I'll try to fix them. I don't know. We're taking things that are genetically marginalized by organisms and we're jacking them in little kids arms. We just shoot them right into the bank, right into the bank, right into the bank.
This is Yahoo news. I believe it was mirroring the insider and the headline here is Bill Gates jokes that Microsoft acts to Internet Explorer because it ran out of microchips vaccinating everyone. Oh, that's a funny joke. Oh, hilarious Bill Gates says here it appears.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is very much aware of the conspiracy theory claiming he was implementing microchips in people who got the COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday. Joke done Twitter that the company had to shut down Internet Explorer because it ran out of microchips vaccinating everyone. Gates was responding to a tweet posted by the Daily Show that joked. It was always joking with a joke.
Quote, wow, Bill Gates encourages everyone to get vaccinated. Then a year later Internet Explorer dies. Coincidence? The microchip vaccine conspiracy theory is a false rumor that the COVID-19 vaccine was implanting a magnetic tracking device somehow connected to 5G mobile networks.
I guess that's one version of it. There's multiple versions of this whole conspiracy theory. False rumor. Oh, they love to bring this one.
They love it. Yeah. Because nobody really like nobody believes it in the way that they describe it. Yeah.
And and they love bringing it up because it's a great straw man. I'm just going to take down the green screen and the whole show is just going to be one big apocalypse. Yeah, we're working through all sorts of stuff. All kinds of stuff.
Yes, but again, could be my end because I got stuff moving around over here too. You might be yours. Okay. Okay.
Okay. Let's continue. This goes on and talk about how Microsoft shut down in and explore. They're not supporting it anymore.
And you know, it's funny because when I first saw this, I was as triggered as probably many of you, you know, look at something like this. You're like, Oh, Bill Gates, you know, sort of affirming the bias about painting this man because of all of his feelings with whatever Epstein and what Microsoft and taking over the world and vaccinating people and everything. Whatever. All the reasons you'd have to hate the man.
But then I stopped and I was like, wait a minute. They want you to have that reaction. Like they're doing this at a certain point. It's like, okay, they know, like they're joking, but they know it's going to trigger some people.
And you know, once I thought that I was like, okay, yeah, I'm not going to let that affect me. You know, move on. But well, you know, it's funny because it's very reminiscent to Klaus Schwab, sort of, and that other guy bragging about the conspiracy theories about them. Yeah.
Was it Borla from Pfizer? I forget it may have, but it's just sort of, you know, it's really kind of, they think that it's like clever and funny and deflective and stuff, but it's actually really unattractive, Bill Gates. So there you go. I thought that was interesting that, you know, he's so out and open about it, which at this point, you know, it's been called out so much that he really doesn't have a choice.
But there's another horseman out there doing things. You are already the sort of cybernetics, my own. That's our taking over from regular programming. So you are connected.
You know, thinking about how the state of the world now is that Elon Musk has become our sort of final line of defense against any kind of the resemblance of a constitutional republic of the United States, and he's like, wow, we're really there, you know, 10 years ago, if you're like, Elon Musk is going to defend freedom. People were like, yeah, you're insane. But that's where we are. Elon Musk veered into talking about aliens during his meeting with Twitter employees, telling them he hasn't seen evidence to suggest they're real.
This is again, a business insider being mirrored on Yahoo. And just briefly run through it. He almost is all chestnut again. Yeah.
See, Elon Musk has a company, SpaceX, that goes to space, but he hasn't seen yet seen evidence that there's life out there. The town hall with the beleaguered staff of Twitter on Thursday to discuss his impending buyout of the company must also touched on the possibility of life outside of Earth, source of the, uh, or source who attended told insider must told Twitter employees how the mission of SpaceX is to quote, to make life multi planetary and thus improve the problem lifespan, improve the problem lifespan of consciousness. Oh, maybe that quote makes him make life multi planetary and thus improve the problem lifespan, maybe the problem of, I don't know, problem lifespan of consciousness. I don't know.
He's talking a weird AI now. He discussed the possibility of life outside Earth, but seemed to follow up after saying he hasn't seen quote actual evidence for aliens. Quote, can we travel to other star systems and see if there are alien civilizations? He said there could be quote long dead ones out there too.
He said it's already been a pretty out of this world process for his acquisition of Twitter, that is his and his acquisition thing there and how, you know, there's a little saber rattling going on. And I mean, it's just literally said this. I know it is literally him taking time out of the whole Twitter situation to talk about aliens, which is very strange. You know, it's like they're keeping aliens in the mainstream consciousness.
Just continually, I mean, it's all this change is very, was he was he prompted or did he just go off on, you know, I don't know, I don't know, but you know, the Elon news, it's not just one thing he's got a lot of stuff going on. Yeah, right here from news.com.au. Elon Musk says free speech is essential and leaked town hall with Twitter staff. And I saw this project Veritas leaked the entire town hall Twitter ran for its staff to engage with their soon to be boss Elon Musk.
Does that seem a little coordinated to you, Basil? The project Veritas, which is conveniently have the entire thing. Yeah. From this whole thing, it sounds to me like Elon was like, here's the password.
Yeah, let's record it and release it. Was it a virtual town hall? Is that the? I think so.
Yeah. I was like, yeah, conference call zoom call or something. So, yeah, okay, he's defending free speech. The outrage, I know it's crazy.
And then investing.com, the picture here is hilarious. I'll describe it in the moment. The headline here is Elon, the Dogefather Musk smacked with $258 billion lawsuit for the first year of the league Doge pyramid. Yeah, that was pretty funny.
I mean, it's, I mean, that's his entire net worth. I think he's at the time. But they're trying to get him for the Doge thing, huh? You know, it's, it is the season of regulation falling upon the world of crypto.
And so I think anybody who has any, any kind of pain from crypto is going to jump on some kind of lawsuit or class action lawsuit or whatever, whatever you can might as well kick it off with a quarter of a trillion dollar lawsuit against Elon Musk. The Dogefather. It's a good time to do it. And as far as like, like the art of war goes against Elon, he's already, you know, he's in hot water in so many other ways.
Right during the crypto crisis that everybody's experiencing right now. And sort of pinning Dogecoin as something he's responsible for really doesn't make a lot of sense when you think about it for a second. But it is, I mean, who's going to think about it for a second? You love, we love to hate billionaires.
You know, everybody's scared about the crypto situation now and looking for somebody to blame. So, you know, that's, that's Elon's thing. Again, I have a feeling Elon is going to do a great job of sort of a ketoing this lawsuit into some good PR somehow. We're going to see, yeah, it'll be interesting to see sort of the counter moves with all of this.
I mean, I'm Elon sort of front center with a lot of it, but you know, there's a lot of companies out there doing what they can because the entire crypto sort of hedge fund industry is being torn down right now. So we'll see who survives and who doesn't. But anyway, it's Friday, Basil. Are you ready for Friday?
It's Friday. I'm I'm through. I'm done. Okay.
So, I understand. We can keep playing with Friday. It's really. It's really.
That's right. It's Friday folks and we're excited for the weekends. We are going to be just jamming through this episode. I've got a very, very strict timeframe today.
So I own time. What's that? I've only got one update today and that update is, well, it's some sort of biblical plague has been rolling across the countryside here near the compound. There are humongous, the most humongous crickets that I've ever seen.
They're like two or three inches long. They splat really sort of a satisfactory, it's really satisfying when you run them over with your car. I caught one to try to take it, take a sample. And I thought it was notable because those who have seen the Jurassic Park movie, the new one, what I mean, the whole basis for the storyline is genetically modified, giant grass hoppers or locusts that, you know, are trained or genetically sort of, I don't know, predisposed to eat all the crops except for the crops made by the fictional version of Monsanto.
And it was like a day after that, these gigantic crickets. Now I will say something about these crickets, they are not moving geographically. They have been just right in the same spot, the same like 100 yards or like almost a week now. I don't know what it is.
I don't know if there's something there, some sort of magnetic pulse or space laser. Yeah, waiting for the space laser to move and then you know, with the targeting space lasers thing for the. I like how I like how you go off grid and you're already living out enough for them update there. I mean, just a day to day life for you out here.
Fantastic. That's my update. You got anything you want to remind everybody why you're wearing sunglasses? Yeah, so my glasses got scratched a couple months ago.
I brought it into the eye doctor finally and they're like, Oh, your glasses are still under warranty, but we must get it fixed now or you will have to pay lots of money to get another pair. So I was like, all right, fine. I don't know if I have my spare, I do have my sunglasses, you know, the prescription sunglasses. So, you're still on that like eye doctor expensive glasses train, huh?
Sure. Yeah. It's the same doctor I've had for 20 some years. I know.
I know. I know. I know. I know.
I know. It's like a racquet, man. Is it really? Yeah.
My glasses are 20 bucks that come from China. They're cheap. They're cheap, both in construction and in price. But you know, for the 400 bucks that you pay at an eye doctor, I can get like 80 pairs of glasses.
Uh huh. Yeah. Give it a try, man. Okay.
Yeah. That sounds legit and just get stuff from China. And you know, the only way guns that you and I could ever keep up on our eyeglasses is because of the value for value model. 100%.
And let's thank some executive producers. Let's do it. But impressed. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
That is a definite producer. That's right. We're on the value for value model, which means no corporate money whatsoever. No advertisements, affiliate codes, platform partnerships, nothing.
No corporate money. We are entirely funded by the producers of the show and who are the producers? They're you, dear listener. They're listeners of the show that get value from it and realize that it would not be possible for this show to exist in the form that we all know and love.
If it were not for, I'm sorry, it would be impossible for it to exist in this form if corporate money was involved. It's just impossible and it's wrong and we don't like it. But those listeners who join the revolution and realize that we should not be letting the corporate lizard people decide the value of our independent media anyways. And I mean, what a better system than those who get value put value back in taking some personal responsibility for information flow, getting the evil corporate shills out of the dissemination and analyzation of the corporate mainstream news.
It's all good, man. And when you do, you're called a producer and those producers who come in and carry the heavy load when the rest of us are so burdened by the danger, danger season where it's not only fires and heat waves, but it's also, you know, world wars and inflation, et cetera, et cetera. And we are so grateful to them and we're going to thank them right now. We have one executive producer who came in, oh, just in the nick of time, Gons.
And that is executive producer, Christine S. Christine, thank you for coming through. Yes, yes. Yes.
Not going to lie, it's the, we are so grateful to all of our producers. But during this kind of sketchy time, producer ship is unstable, to say the least. And if it weren't for these executive producers, oh, man, oh, man, would that be scary? I mean, it was scary up until the second I saw Christine come in.
So thank you very much, executive producer, Christine. Thank you. And if you want to produce the show, there's still time you can head on over to canarycryradio.com slash support. Yes.
Canary cry radio.com slash support. And I want to take a second, Don's. I said it in the pre show, but I'm going to say it now. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We figured it out.
Okay. Episode 500 is coming and it's on its way. It is barely for us. 500.
I know. Wow. Look, it's not the highest number of any podcasts, but getting to 500 is a real milestone. And for Gons and I, it's really, it feels different because it's not just that Gons and I made 500 episodes of this podcast, most of them being in the past two years, even though we've been going since 2016 on this one, 2012 before that.
But it's that we couldn't have done it without the producers. Yeah. This is an achievement for the producers. So it will be a march.
As it is for us. Yeah. This is all, you know, the producers who have come and gone to maybe not even listening anymore, but it's something that's been a collective effort for years. So yeah, it's a very cool establishment, an establishment accomplishment.
Yeah. And we truly feel this way and we hope that the producers feel this as well. And so we've been trying to figure out like a cool way to commemorate or give some sort of special, I don't know, celebration to the 500th episode. And there was, of course, lots of talk about a round table special, the Canary Cry Round Table of Knights and Dames, which usually has a fairly high bar.
It's a very honor. It's a big honor to be at the Canary Cry Round Table of Knights and Dames. Not anybody can just get there. But the normal protocol is if a producer gives $1,000 to the show, either all at once or over time, some people take years to do it and we're grateful for that faithfulness.
But once in a while, we'll have round table specials where it makes it a little bit more accessible to people. And that's what we're going to do for episode 500. Now there's a couple little things here. There will be a $500 episode 500 round table special, instant night, instant day, instant round table inclusion there.
Now that we've done stuff like that before. That's not, that's not strange. But as a special celebration, we have also made a veil or we are manufacturing a commemorative episode 500 challenge coin. And yeah, challenge coins, man.
We're loving this challenge coin thing. So it's going to be a one time run of the episode 500 challenge coin for producers who there's a couple of ways to do it. Number one, you come in with the one time 500 bucks, you're instantly knighted, instantly damed and will send you the challenge coin. It's I think it's two inches.
It's a really hefty challenge coin. So we're stoked about that. But the other one, we realize that times are weird and this is just a hardcore time for everybody. And obviously it is not strange to postulate that, you know, having 500 bucks on hand to support your independent media is not something a whole lot of people will feel comfortable with.
So we are also doing this on episode 500. If you pledge to support the show for 10 bucks per episode for starting at episode 500 through episode 555, then you will be knighted and damed on episode 555, which is where we would usually do the knight and dame promo. And we will send you the challenge coin. So simply for pledging and following through to break it up over 55 episodes, we will also manufacture one of these cool challenge coins for you, send it out and you can participate in the cool thing.
And you know, it's not just a trinket or something. It really is supposed to honor producers. I mean, don't get us wrong. We understand that these numbers, you know, they're big numbers, especially in today's economy.
But we truly, truly are touched by the fact or are focused on the fact that making it to 500 episodes would have been impossible if not for the producers. And, you know, we hope that this challenge going is not just like a cool trinket, but really something that you can treasure as a symbol of what people are capable of doing outside of the corporate structures, the government structures, all of the sort of economic authorities that try to get in between us and something that is valuable to us. In this case, truly independent media. And when we say independent, remember, independent from really the whole control structure of the corporate news enterprise.
And so if that's something that you truly feel as deeply as we do, we want to get you one of these challenge coins and we want people to be knighted and damed and really continue to build, you know, just a robust atmosphere that together people can decide the value of important information flow in their lives. And they do not need to rely on some guys in a boardroom somewhere deciding to rename summer to dangerous stuff like this. So there you go. That's what we're going to be doing.
We're going to reiterate, we've got the normal $500, night hood and dame hood special. If you come in before episode 500 and we'll send you the challenge coin or you can sign up for the, what are we calling? We had some fancy name for it, but it's basically you take a pledge on episode 500, we'll have a special button that you can click and use to sign up and make your pledge. And not only will you hit night hood or dame hood by episode 555, but we'll also send you the very special one run episode 500 challenge coin.
So there you go. Keep an eye out on your email box and your text message box for links associated with all of this in the future. 500 episodes. Let's go.
Yeah, horns now. We're going to cut horns now. All right. Well, let's check in on Flippy.
Flippy on the day. Do you want to ride without? That's right. Flippy is our colloquial name for the disembodied robot arms that are taking our jobs and slaving our children and flirting with our spouses.
We use talking about Flippy as a way to explore all the new fun and exciting ways that robots are taking over the world. Now there's nothing we can do about it. Just a quick Flippy update today. An actual Flippy.
If you are a regular participant in this show and listen to it and interact with us on social media and stuff, you certainly have gotten the miso robotics two weeks left to invest ads. People hundreds of people have sent us screenshots of the fact that they're getting advertised by miso robotics to invest and bring Flippy to into the future. That's up to you. I have no idea what to do about that.
But this is a story coming from the National Mirror by MSN here. It says restaurants in the UAE will soon have robot chefs preparing meals for customers. Is that the headline you have? Is that the headline that you have?
Dubai's first robot chef Flippy is coming to a mall near you. Oh, okay. Yeah, sorry. That's the headline.
Dubai's first robot chef Flippy is coming to a mall near you. I love it because it's coming to a mall in Dubai. And that's not very near me. And I don't know why they want to write that.
Be jelly America is what they're saying. If you don't have the Flippy arm. Americana restaurants, not just American. Americana.
operates Pizza Hut, KFC and Hardys in the Middle East and North Africa has partnered with miso robotics to bring machine employees to the into the workforce. The robotics company will test its Flippy to that's the newer, shinier. Yeah, sexy or better to a robotic arm that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence at the wimpy restaurants in Dubai mall. It doesn't get tired, take breaks or sweat into the dishes it prepares nor can it suffer an injury.
That's what gives it that extra local flavors that sweat from the chefs. You know, taking that away. We love to explore the social engineering aspect of bringing robots into the advent of robots into mainstream culture and into your home. And it's been a slow boil of going from, oh, these robots are here to help.
They're not going to replace humans. They're not going to, you know, they're just going to make humans lives easier so we can just enjoy our work and not do the hard stuff to straight up like not only are humans useless, but they are going to sweat dishes, they're dirty, they're nasty. Why would you want a human cooking for you? I mean, it's not very far into the future where the very idea of a human cooking your food will be so repellency and nasty, which is, you know, cooking being such a, I mean, that's a human thing, man.
There's love in those dishes. That's, you know, I was really thinking about this as I saw the story, you know, setting it up for you today. You know, just thinking about a world 20 to 30 years into, you know, a good portion of people eating food made by robots. What does that do to the economy of like actual chefs and actual human cooked food?
It becomes a luxury, right? Economic part of it. We've, yeah, that's, that's, that's, we've been talking about that for years, but I think that the the message being sent here is like, you don't want grandma cooking your food. You don't want an expert who went to school and, you know, whatever.
Now, look, KFC Pizza Hut parties. I mean, it's almost like you know what you're eating. And so the food. Yeah, the food itself is pretty much robots at that point.
Yeah. But again, remember, it's the social engineering. It's the slow boil of, no, no, no, no, we're not going to replace humans too. Yeah, we're going to replace humans.
It's because it's cheaper to straight up. If a human cooks your food, you nasty don't even think about it. You think that's love in grandma's recipe? No, that's sweat.
Do you remember for brow? Only on the show, can we recall things from the very beginning, the very beginning of Flippy when they had him in Dodger Stadium. I remember they had a whole thing where they did, you know, press with him, Flippenburgers and Dodger Stadium. And the whole narrative was there was like a person helping with the buns.
And they're like, look, you still need human help. Like you still got to have a human put the bun down, which is like the most ridiculous thing. And at the time, we were like, yeah, that's not going to last. And here we are now.
It's all the disgusting sweat of a human. Mm hmm. No, I think very much. It's not very long.
I think by 2030, the idea of a human cooking your food, it will have two elements. The idea of human cooking your food will be disgusting to most people. But on the other hand, I think it will become a luxury. Right.
You can only get your food cooked by a human if you're at like a four star Michelin restaurant type of thing. Right. Because, you know, that's what the that's what the elites love. You know, we're trying to just have a hamburger.
They're like, I want to eat the liver of a goose smothered in the eggs of a fish and you know, boiled in the whatever, the milk of a cockroach. And that's like, that's luxury. You know, that's that's what you spend your money on. So I think this idea in the near future, like, hey, we go to this restaurant.
Wow, how do you even get a table? That's crazy. Yeah, they have human cooks. It's wild.
Yeah. It'll be a status simple. Well, that's what I'm saying. It's going to the sociology surrounding how it's going to affect the perception of food in general.
I think this is all conditioning for all the products lined up for, you know, fake meat and all that. That's that's all in line too. So it's all part of it. It's just they got to get the proper infrastructure to roll all that stuff out.
So it's not only is it, you know, clean or, you know, not me, you're not killing cows, but also you don't have human sweat in your food. No fingerprints, no sweat. The fast food becomes the purest of foods. At least they all together now.
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OK, and this has been the humming time. Why I am trying to play this thing, it's just not working. Wow, this is unbelievable. We got it.
Did you get a Windows update? No, no. All right. Well, I guess I'll try it later.
So in the meantime, artificial intelligence. Yeah, that's what we're doing. That's what we're doing. Oh, no.
Oh, no. Well, nothing's working. Everything froze. That's not good.
Artificial intelligence. There we go. Couple of quick artificial intelligence updates, but very valuable nonetheless. You want to give us this first one?
Yeah, this is from Yahoo News, mirroring next shark. And the headline here is Students Report that crying during exams activates schools' anti-cheat software. Cool. OK.
Cool, cool, cool. Students in remote classes have taken to social media to protest against some teachers' use of anti-cheat software during exams, with some claiming that crying during exams activates them. In recent years, a growing number of teachers in the US have become dependent on artificial intelligence-based tools to virtually proctor students by monitoring faces and tracking eye movements. Last month, students began to speak out after University of Kentucky Professor Joseph Froul-Hald said in a viral TikTok video that he wouldn't trust professors that use tracking software on students.
The post apparently struck a chord among many students who are now criticizing the tool for their alleged drawbacks. You know, it's wild is that, you know, when we were in high school, we were just talking about the potentialities of a danger of a surveillance society, you know, these students are living it, which is nuts. Yeah. Well, yeah.
Well, and that's that speaks to the programming nature of school. Yeah. This is not a new criticism, but you know, the public school system in America is it's not really for education, although education can happen there. It's a type of education.
It's mainly to churn out, you know, good obedient citizens. You know, that's where you do a lot of these social programming, telling kids how to believe, not just what to believe, but like training them to agree with the crowd, training them to agree with authority, these types of things. And now training them to, you know, obey the AI surveillance state where even crying gets you in trouble with the robots. Yeah.
So one of the students here says, I'd quote, I tried so hard to fight against having to use these, my school outright denied me. And I ended up being constantly flagged because of horrible anxiety. One user claimed quote, one of my French exams got flagged for cheating because I was crying crying for the whole thing. And my French professor had to watch 45 minutes of me quietly sobbing.
I don't know. I mean, it really kind of plays hand in hand with, you know, I don't know what else to call it besides the sort of softening of the American children. I love this to Frouhald. Then took the discussion further on Twitter, noting that he quote seems to have broken the dam of all this traumatic surveillance.