Why not? The world is getting crazier, people are acting more and more insane. The end of the world is tomorrow to tomorrow. It's the only one thing to do when the world is really hard.
Listen to Basil and go on and discuss this week's news and events through the lens of bible classes. You are listening to the new Grand News Talk. You are listening to the new Grand News Talk. We are live to tape July 27th, 2022.
This is episode 514. And today, neck robot spies. And signing on from out the great Razzle Dazzle, I'm your best buddy Basil. And my name is Gons, your favorite Asian provocateur for Christ, aka the Commandable Boy Live from California Hear Us, and here is your podcast that brings you the best news, which is the Gospel Message of Jesus Christ.
While reporting the egregious, what they well-rounded, biblically grounded take on world events, today's emergence phenomenon is supposed to be spies and spiders. But I don't know if it's all of it. Half-show today, or maybe unless it's a picture. Unless it's an emergency show, folks, due to unforeseen circumstances.
We will be doing a shorter show today. Apologies for that, but there's nothing we can do about it. That is just the world as it exists today. I don't even think we should do a rundown.
Let's just get right into the clips. We can say sure, sure. Okay. No, it doesn't feel right.
Let's do a quick rundown. Hold on. I'm not ready. That's part of my house.
Okay, that is a good story. Okay, folks, here's a quick rundown. We're going to be starting out with some clips from all hairy legs and stuff. Hairy eight legs?
Hairy legs? Spider? I don't know. Camilla, also with some, oh, just a classic clip that will live on Infamy.
And then we're going to be jumping into Flippy. The Flippy update, folks. And this one is a doozy that will be, is a whole new category of robots and Flippy updates to keep an eye out for them. We'll be jumping into some Russia, Ukraine news, some politics, what's going on with the economy and stuff like that.
And that's basically it. It'll be a short show. So we apologize for that. But it's going to be fun.
It's going to be fast pace. It's going to be flirty. It's going to be dirty. Okay, let's go.
What? Okay. All right. Well, this is interesting.
You finished the rant before the music. This is a new one. Usually we're waiting, but yeah, I guess it's going to be the whole thing, man. It's a short show.
Let's do it. Let's see what Biden's up to. This is the United States American. God say, oh, I've just tested negative.
I've been here for COVID-19 after I was leading for five days. Yeah, good job. Thanks, man. I want to thank you all for your well wishes, your prayers over this past week and the calls I've gotten.
I've also want to thank the medical team here at the White House for the incredible care that you gave me. Fortunately, thankfully, God willing, there were my symptoms were mild. My recovery was quick and I'm feeling great. The entire time I was in isolation, I was able to work and carry out the duties of the office and without any interruption.
So that's a real statement on where we are in the fight against COVID-19. Okay, sure. It just needs to be said that he was on Paxilavid and whether or not he is testing negative or feeling better right now. Keep an eye out for the old Paxilavid rebound.
I think I would not have celebrated this early if I were him or the White House handlers. Oh, it doesn't matter. The facts don't matter as long as you get the press op infamously. Infamously, the Paxilavid rebound, especially for older people.
It's very possible. It's positive again in like three days. Yeah. So that'll be exciting.
We'll keep an eye out for that. It's funny because he was going for a cough, a little clearer throat cough and the ABC who clipped this cut it off right there, right before the cough. He's fine. He's fine.
Don't ask questions. Over the weekend, though, Joe Biden also had this little video that went viral. This was shared by the Democrat Party Twitter page. Direction and ProCop.
You can't be pro insurrection and procop. You can't be pro insurrection and pro democracy. You can't be pro insurrection and pro-American. Donald Trump liked the courage to act.
The brave women and men in blue all across this nation should never forget that. Okay. First, I just want to comment on what he said. This pro insurrection thing, it's just not very useful.
It's not for anybody except for Democrats. I think that's why it was kind of on the Democrat Twitter. This was a party message. This was not a president message.
This is what I mean. The fact that it came out on the Democratic Party Twitter says more than what he actually says in there because nobody would claim to be pro insurrection. That is Democrat Party language, not language of the president of the United States. This was a midterm campaign operation here, this video.
Just not very useful and stupid. But that's not even the most important part of the video. I've shared this on Twitter and I could be completely wrong here. But I was looking at this video and people were commenting on his glazed over eyes.
He never blinks in the video, which is kind of weird. That's the place to start. We don't need to get quite yet into the conspiracy theory. You look at him, his eyeballs look insane.
He looks like a mad man. It's not because he famously has his squint, the Joe Biden smolder, which is instills confidence into the American people. In this video, his eyeballs are open wider than possibly they ever have been in his entire life. They're humongous.
He looks all bugged out. And honestly, he probably is all bugged out. That's not even crazy. Of course, they give these guys all sorts of shots and things to amp them up for speeches and videos and things like that.
He looks insane. He does not blink the entire video, which is just its own, maybe he's a lizard person. So maybe he licked his eyeballs like extra sloppy before they started rolling. But it gets even weirder.
Yeah. So I was sharing on Twitter that I said, I don't think it's a deep fake, but there were some deep fake qualities and I'd be interested to see the opinions or hear the opinions of some of our deep fake producers. I'll give you some opinions. But I just took some screenshots of moving between frames.
And of course, this can possibly be just the issue with the frame rates and stuff. It'd be more like a compression issue, maybe. Right. Right.
So like that, just the artifacts, the digital artifacts of an online video. I do want to say for those who are just listening, but when you watch the video, it's got kind of an uncanny valley feel to it. Like, even if you don't go into like really deep into trying to figure out what's wrong, it just feels weird. It doesn't feel real.
But you went ahead and got in there nice and tight on his. Yeah. So I did a little editing and a screen capture just me moving between frames. And there is a moment at the end of the video where, and this is what I noticed was kind of weird, was at the end of the video, there's a moment when Joe says something and his whole face from like his eyebrows down.
So like his eyes, his nose, his mouth, that moves up and down at the same time. But his forehead doesn't move and the rest of his head doesn't move. Yeah. You know, and that's really one of the sort of things that says deep fake to me because for the, you know, people who have done deep fakes or looked into them, when you're deep faking a face onto somebody else's face, you really just take the facial triangle and you transpose it onto the other face, you know, it's an artificially intelligent sort of done automatic process.
But you just take a very small triangle right around the eyes and the eyebrows and then down, you know, the cheekbones to the lips beneath the lips there. It's a very small triangle of face that you actually move. And yeah, when you're going frame to frame here, if you're just listening, he's gone, gone, went back and forth a couple of frames and you can clearly see the eyes, the eyebrows, the nose and the mouth, like floating independent of his head. It is the weirdest looking thing.
And it's not edited or, you know, there's no smudge tool or any kind of after effects going on. This is pretty much the raw video we got. So yeah. And that would explain that would explain the quality issue, the digital quality issue, because there's one way to hide deep fakes.
Yeah. Fake videos in general is, you know, you do the deep fake, but then you kind of, you know, you export it as a lower quality. So it doesn't quite come across online as clearly. And so you can kind of hide some of the imperfections with the lower quality video.
I mean, it is so blatant. It's almost like they're asking for the conspiracy theorists to go off. This, this very well may just be like bait for the right or something. Could be.
Yeah. I don't know. But we'll see. In the meantime, Kamala, the vice president, this one viral of her little introduction.
Good afternoon. And we're welcome these ladies for coming in. So brave. So brave.
Strong. Did you get any of the other people? What do you mean the other people at the table? Yeah.
Everybody at the table did this. No, I didn't. Oh, yeah. So everybody at the table did this.
Now this kind of exploded online because a lot of people, you know, I mean, obviously it's sort of, it's unusual. It's atypical. It's sort of the pinnacle of wokeness, woke, woke speak, things like that. And a lot of people, you know, they don't, they either don't know or don't care to know.
Not a lot of people asking questions why she gave this description. But it is, it is like woke speak. It is also for blind people. So, you know, you do your pronouns.
But people know how you identify. There's my question about the blind part. Yeah. If you're blind, how do you know the color blue?
Right. She said that's not blue. Blue suit. Blind person's like, yeah, I've heard of that color.
Right. So I mean, of course people become blind at different parts of their life. So somebody may know what they're talking about when they say, or hear blue. But yes, this is kind of another aspect in the, in the woke speak where if you are, want to be inclusive of people who are blind, you describe yourself when you're introducing yourself.
So not only giving pronouns, but you describe yourself. I'm surprised she didn't go so far as to recognize the indigenous peoples. Have you heard that? Have you seen that?
Yeah. I've seen some of that. I've seen a couple of events where they do this. They will give their pronouns.
They tell you what they look like. And then there's sort of a mandatory recognition of the indigenous peoples who formerly or whatever, who the land was stolen from. Right. Right.
But you're right. There's a good point. I mean, I would like to talk to a blind person about this. I don't know if we have any blind producers.
I mean, just sort of statistically we must. So if they are able to get in contact with us, I would love to know what they think about this. It really reminded me of the Latinx thing. The Latinx thing, all these white liberal, rich people inventing a term Latinx to be like a non-gendered Latina or Latino, you know, woke speak.
And they had to stop doing it because the Latina's hated it. It disgusted them. It was even sort of considered offensive for being, you know, I don't know, just for taking their culture or whatever. Comma speech writer quit earlier this month too.
So, you know, they just unleashed her unleashed common as well. Let her go nuts. Yeah. Yeah.
So that's a good point. I would like to hear from a blind person if this is useful because I could see how if this was not requested by the blind community, and it may have been, but if it was not, this would be probably incredibly offensive or just paternal, you know, the whole people they hate, they hate dads. So to have something so paternal would be so disgraceful. Sure.
All right. Sleepy boy. What is this Wednesday? It's Wednesday.
It is Wednesday. It is Wednesday, my dudes. It is Wednesday, my dudes. Wednesday.
It is Wednesday, my dudes. It is Wednesday, my dudes. It is Wednesday, my dudes. It is Wednesday.
It is Wednesday, my dudes. Yeah. If you didn't know, now, you know, it is Wednesday. And as we mentioned, it is going to be a short show today due to forces outside of our control, but we hope to make it a good short show, anywho.
You would, do you have anything important? We need, you know, you want to share within your personal life, anything to see a child's movie again or anything. No, nothing like that. But yeah.
Nothing to share. Oh, I got my wallet stolen. That was fun. Oh, that's, yeah.
Okay. That's a big deal. That's not good. Yeah.
No, no, no, no. I just forgot it in my car and then I came in the next morning. It's gone and woke up to a couple of alerts saying, Hey, did you purchase $200 at Walmart? Oh, they just went straight to work.
Oh, no, nope. They just went straight to work. Yeah. My driver's license.
It was like my everything wallet. Yeah. That is a huge bummer. I'm sorry about that.
I did actually lose a credit card. So far, nobody's used it. But yeah, it looks like our methods of surviving, of navigating this empire, Gons are quickly slipping between our fingers. It's all fun.
And with that, we will take seconds to think some executive producers. Who's going to play? There it is. Executive producers.
That's kind of quite, quite. All right. We're going to think some executive producers because we are on the value for value model folks. It is a wonderful model.
It's basically what it means is we take no corporate money whatsoever. No advertisements, affiliate codes, platform partnerships, none of that stuff. Maybe we are entirely funded by producers of the show and who are producers. They are listeners like you who understand that the value for value model is an important tool in the arsenal of the miasma of people who understand that the advertising industry has done a wonderful job of taking over the world, which includes our very minds via the financial profit motives of advertising companies to subtly psychologically manipulate you into spending money you don't have on things you don't need.
But the value for value model dictates that if we leave the corporations out of it, who needs them? I don't need them. We don't need them. We leave the corporations out of it.
And with that, we maintain some level of independence. Actually, I would say quite a large level of independence compared to other, you know, media properties, media flow, the apparatai that rely on funding from big corporations to be allowed to exist. But here, we don't let corporations decide the value of the show. Value is to be decided by those who receive value.
And the executive producers are those who go the extra mile, they understand they raise the rebel fist in the air and help us disconnect from the, you know, the dark economic systems of this world, which wish to control us. And oftentimes wear our skin pretending to be humans when indeed they are reptiles. But today, Gons, are you ready to thank some executive producers? Yes, sir.
Okay. Well, here you go. Short show, short list. No executive producers.
Real. It's about how it feels today with everything. It's been a weird day. It's the end of the month, which is always a little topsy-turvy with producers in general.
But yes, you lost your, you got your wallet stolen. I lost my credit card. Producership is low. We're down.
I ran the numbers. We're down 30% this month. Wow. Look, we get it, man.
We get it. Plus inflation. We're down like 39.1%. This is just the world we live in.
But at least we don't have to tailor our message or be brand friendly to keep the show going. And that's worth something. So, but you know what? We just got to survive a little bit longer.
Once once the rent is paid, then it comes the wiggle room for the value for value. So, there you go, folks. It's not too late to produce this episode. The producer list in general is, well, it's actually, it's adorable.
It's like a cheby list. Cheby. Yes. You know, anime, cheby, cute, little tiny cheby list of producers.
But, you know, it's a short show. So, maybe that's what we get. Yeah, it looks like we do have a executive producer who just came in. Oh, really?
Yeah. Let me just make sure that it's. God bless the live shows, man. I know the live shows.
Oh, yeah. I'm looking at it right now. Yeah. Okay.
So, I think it's Davey Frost. Davey Frost. Yeah. Is it Davey Frost in the chat here?
I think he is. Oh, my gosh. Davey Frost. Thank you so much.
My man. He comes in with $100 and 33 cents. Oh, yeah. And he sends a note here.
It says, bummer about your wallet guns. I hope this helps. Thanks. Stuff in the below.
Davey Frost. It really does. Davey Frost. That's actually, that's probably the first good thing to happen in this whole day.
Yes, it is. Thank you. It's been around there. We both had pretty jam-packed days planned.
And one by one, the walls that sort of make up our lives started falling around us. Yeah. Which is why we had to do what we're doing now. So, thank you very much.
Executive producer, Davey Frost. Where'd you find this? Lots of love. Lots of love in the chat there for Davey Frost.
Thanks, buddy. I want to mention the meetup real quick. Yes. Do it.
Oh, which I mean, you want the jam? I do. Hold on. Yeah.
This is all kind of off the rhythm of time. Oh, yeah. We are completely winging it today, folks. Yeah.
Can you hear me crying? Meetup. DRAKE ON. You can get all the information.
Kind of hard to get because the phone number's at the bottom of the image? It's okay. Yeah. I think you will be okay if we don't broadcast this phone number out to the whole world.
So, if you want it, you got to go find it, folks. Can you're going to crime me at Upstalk? We'll see you at the meetup. Just keep moving.
Okay. Let's keep moving. You flew the other day. Do your run for eyes without...
That's right, folks. We're going straight into the Flippy Update Flippy. Here's our colloquial name for the disembodied robot arms that are taking our jobs enslaving 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 We're taking over the world and how there's nothing we can do about it.
Today, Gons, is a big day and the Flippy update. We've got a brand new category of Flippy. And it's, well, the most terrifying category. This comes from spectrum.ie.org.
The IEE spectrum, we know them. The headline, listen to this, Necrobotics. Necrobotics. Ooh, dead spiders reincarnated as robot grippers.
Uh, yep, you're that right. Dead spiders reincarnated as robot grippers. Bugs have long taunted roboticists with how utterly incredible they are. Ooh, astonishingly mobile, amazingly efficient, super robust.
And in some cases, literally dirt cheap. OK, but robots making a robot that's an insect equivalent is extremely hard, so hard that it's frequently easier to just hijack living insects themselves and put them to work for us. You know, what's even easier than that, though? Hijacking and repurposing dead bugs.
Welcome to Necrobotics. Spiders are basically hydraulic or pneumatic grippers. Living spiders control their limbs by adjusting blood pressure on a limb by limb basis through an internal valve system. Higher pressure extends the limb, acting against the antagonistic flexor muscle that curls the limb when the blood pressure is within is reduced.
This, incidentally, is why spider legs all curl up when the spider shuffles off the mortal coil. There's a lack of blood pressure to balance the force of flexors. This means that actuating all eight limbs of a spider that has joined the choir invisible is for this poetic language about death here. Joining the choir invisible is relatively straightforward.
Simply stab it in the middle of that valve system, inject some air and poof all of the legs inflate and straighten. Let's see here. But see if I can skip this, yeah, I'm gonna skip that. You know, these robot assists are kind of boring when they talk about stuff.
Except for this part, we repurposed the cadaver of a spider to create a pneumatically actuated gripper that is fully functional following only one simple assembly step, allowing us to circumvent the usual tedious and constraining fabrication steps required for fluid, fluidically driven actuators and grippers. This work, oopsies, I clicked on a link. Don't click on a link. This work from researchers.
Okay, watching the video. Before you go on, can I just explain what the video is showing? Yes, of course. Okay, so the video shows this scientist holding a syringe.
Yes. And at the end of the syringe is the spider. And as they inject air into the spider, the spider's legs expands like a claw, you know, when you go to the game, whatever the thing and you try to get stuck in a mold. It's a claw machine.
A claw machine. A claw machine. Exactly like that. And then it picks up this little thing and moves it from A to spot B.
But it's just it opens up. It's like, ah! They are arachnid necromancers. We have moved into the area of necromancy when it comes to robotics.
And you know, the interesting thing about this, it seems if you just can figure out exactly where to stab this spider with a syringe, seems like a fun project to do at home. Anybody can do it. Isn't that nice? Yay.
You know, out here on the compound, we have some pretty humongous spiders. They are not, they're not, you know, full on tarantulas, but they're like an inch, you know, an inch in diameter. That's a big enough target. I think I can, I think I can get one of these suckers to do my bidding.
So first of all, obviously terrifying. There's more about this that goes on and on, but we don't have the time for it. Obviously terrifying. The fact that you are taking over a dead body and controlling it and calling it a robot is just sort of like, we have reached a new level in humanity.
I think not see matrix. All those little AI robots, I don't think like flying spiders kind of. Yes, the squid bots, you mean? I guess the squid bots, you know, they give some data on the power of the, the spider gripping, the spiders grip the spiders load capacity.
Let's see here, gripping force exceeding 200% of their body weight, while very much not itty bitty 200 gram goliath spiders, only maybe able to grasp with a force that is 10% of their body weight. Okay. So different spiders do different things, I guess. But we have moved into a period in humanity where no longer must we create.
Robots out of metal, a sort of semi living automatons that challenge our very notions of what life and death mean. Now we can just animate corpses and no, not in the, not in the sort of magical zombie sense, even better, it's using science scones science has reanimated these dead spiders so we can use them to pick up other spiders, I guess. You have a, the mention of goliath spiders is interesting with the, you know, goliath being a nevelom, basically. But there's a paragraph, a very last paragraph, I had a couple sentences highlighted here.
And it says, and for better or worse, insects seem likely to offer the most necrobotic potential because fabricating pneumatic and joints and muscles at that scale can be very challenging if not impossible. And spiders, as well as other spider like insects in particular, offer biodegradable eco-friendly on-demand actuation with capabilities that the researchers hope to extend significantly later. And the researchers are also planning to explore high speed articulation with whip scorpions as well as true micro scale manipulation with Patu de Gua spiders. And this is I'll let you Google whip scorpions.
Have you seen what a whip scorpions? I don't want to do that. No, that's not scary. You guys can go to your own.
It's scary. It's scary. They look freaking. I'm sorry.
That's better. It's a bad. That's scary. Spider with no whip scorpion.
You say whip scorpion. Why don't we do we kind of give the people what they want to do? Let's look at a whip scorpion. Whip scorpion image search.
Oh, oh, yeah. Oh, it's the scariest version of a scorpion. Oh, yeah, this is like an Australian's very, very scary guy. Why?
Yeah. Why do you look like that? Too humongous. Yeah, you know, I tend to try my best not to get freaked out by spiders, not to kill them, you know, not to, not to cause any unnecessary damage to the insect ecosystem, mainly because these spiders do a great job of killing other insects, which I just like even more.
But now that these spiders might actually be some sort of government drone being controlled by a pneumatic backpack that is jacked into their dead corpse. Yeah, I might feel a little bit better about squashing some of these little suckers. Yeah, don't give them any opportunities. Sorry, spiders.
Sorry, spiders. So there you go. There's your flippy update for the day. All right.
We're all out of order today. Okay. I see what we're doing. I see what we're doing.
We are actually taking a quick little break to thank the. Break break or is it a party time? Break break. Oh, is it a break break?
Yeah, we missed. Oh, I don't know, man. You don't know. Yeah, it's party time.
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We don't have a recession. I thought we're in a, I mean, I said we're in a recession, but apparently we- Foolish mistake you made. We, yes, I don't know what I'm talking about. Here's a White House, I don't know the press secretary guy here.
Maybe he's like economy guy, but a little short clip of him explaining recession. As the secretary Yellen said on Sunday, two negative quarters of GDP growth is not the technical definition of recession. It's not the definition that economists have traditionally relied on. That's not true.
That's interesting because you know, you go to invest Stopedia as one example. There's many examples out there. But in the first paragraph, what is a recession? It says a recession is a significant widespread and prolonged turnout in economic activity, because recessions often last six months or more, one popular rule of thumb is that two consecutive quarters of decline in a country's gross domestic product GDP constitute a recession.
That's what we have, right? We have two quarters of recessing. There have been the last 10 recessions were identified by two consecutive downturns or negative growth quarters. All 10 of them, it's just what it is.
That's what a recession is. It always has been. It's the definition. Now there's also more to it, but those rules don't apply to the situation.
It is a recession. Or at least it was, because now they got rid of the Ministry of Truth allegedly. But why do you need a Ministry of Truth when you can just be the president and command the Federal Reserve or whatever to change the definition of recession to protect your reputation? Right.
So a lot of people were pointing out that that's wrong. The White House saying the recession is not based on that two downturn quarters. The business insider published the headline, no, the White House isn't changing the definition of a recession because that's what everyone was saying. And it goes through here, talks about all the numbers and yada yada yada.
It's got Americans on edge. But according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, a semi-official arbitrary of when US downturn starts and ends. So they have a criteria that is more complicated than the two-quarter rule. So their whole thing is, well, all right, a general rule of thumb is two quarters of downturn.
But it's not really because we got bureaucracy, basically. And if you go to the BEA, which I think is like the, what was it? I forget the name of the thing here. It's a government website, bea.gov.
It's the Bureau of Economic, I don't know. A. A. Yeah, administration, sure, or something.
There's a section here about recession. And it says in general, the word recession connotes a marked slippage in economic activity while grossness product. A product is the broadcast measure of economic activity, the often cited identification of a recession with two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth is not an official designation. A designation of a recession is the province of a committee of experts at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private nonprofit research organization that focuses on understanding the US economy.
You see you people don't understand the economy. My committee, we get to say when it's a recession. And just because the last 10 times there was two downturns in growth in two consecutive quarters, it was a recession. 10 out of 10 was a recession.
But no, no, no. Now we're on the 11th and the committee has changed its mind. You know, even just the etymology of recession, the act of receding, going backwards, which is what happened. Right.
Right. You know, and it goes along with the themes that we've had over the past couple of years of just, yeah, when something is inconvenient, we change the definition of it. You know, they changed the definition of vaccine. Remember that they changed the definition of anti-vaxxer.
Remember that? Right. Of course, the definition of woman got changed. There's just another part of that.
Okay. We're just redefining recession. English is a living language. Gons.
We can just change it whenever we want. But it really helps when it's also goes along ways to justify the poor performance of an administration when it comes to starting proxy wars, causing a global, downturn because of the sanctions imposed on Russia that ended up hurting us more than it hurt anybody else, you know, printing more money, 40% of all the dollars that have ever been printed got printed in the past two years. That's something I'm eating now. I think it is more like 80, honestly.
Yeah. Well, the other thing is in the economic context, was it two years ago, maybe a year and a half ago? Or yeah, I think it was a year and a half ago, because it was right when President Biden was taking office. Inflation is transitory.
Remember, it's transitory. It's just a little moment and then actually, you know, I mean, Yellen had to come out and actually actually apologized. I know because it was so bad. Yeah, because it was so wrong and so bad.
She has to come out publicly apologize. Right. And these are the same people saying that this is not a recession. Not a recession.
Okay. Sure. Okay. Nobody's buying it.
Yeah. Gas prices have gone down a little bit. So maybe, you know, maybe Biden. Well, I know.
But it was interesting how they didn't go down much. I don't know about where you are. They didn't go down much where I'm at. And it just happened to be when, you know, when he got back after fist bumping, Mohammed bin Salman, Mr.
Bonesaw of Saudi Arabia. And I'm really ready to give up. That fist bump really gave us, you know, a 10 cent decrease in gas prices. So worth it.
Yeah. All right. Well, yeah, speaking of all the sanctions here. Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia.
This is a, what is this? What do I have here? What do I have here? What is this nonsense I have here?
UniverseToday.com. What is this? Universe Today. That's pretty cool guns.
Yeah. That means, but it sounds cool. Yeah, because universe doesn't have days. That's an earth thing.
But the headline here is, I will load Russia, says they plan to leave International Space Station by 2024. Oh, we said separation coming. Yeah. To Russia's news agency, TAS Leaders at Roskalsmos, have decided to withdraw from the International Space Station, ISS after 2024.
The report said that by that time, quote, all obligations to partner will be fulfilled. Additionally, Russia said they want to build their own space station. I mean, sounds legit to me. My whole thing is, how are we going to have Gundam space battles if we don't have national factions that are presenting different interests?
Yeah, you've got, you know, if all these flippy arms that are up in space attached to the space station, you can't arm wrestle yourself. You need two different space stations with two separate arms, and then you can do the big robot arm wrestle to fight, to settle our scores in space rather than all this messy war stuff here down on earth. Yeah. This is interesting.
Yeah, because of, it's interesting to me, because of its long-term implications. You know, they're planning two years in advance to, I wonder if they're going to disconnect the Russian module. That's what we said. And this is the reason why it's interesting as well.
We've often said in context of geopolitics, you know, there's always news about tensions between nations, but then you look at kind of their actions and you notice that like, oh, Russia, everyone hates Russia, whatever, but they're still up there in the space station, allegedly working with the Americans and whoever else is Chinese or whatever. But now it has reached the heavens, the firmament, the sanctions and everything have affected us. It's not just economics, and just on the ground war, not just, you know, culture war. It's also space war.
Right. Yeah, it looks like they are taking their module back. Additionally, all the international partners would have to agree on how the ISS would be physically operated as the Russian Svesda service module is the main source of propulsion and navigation. Oh, wow.
That's the key right there, because you know, you wonder like, okay, what is this just sort of like a virtue signal? Is it like, I'm just taking my toys and I'm going home type of thing? Does this really matter? Well, yeah, apparently it matters, because the Russian module is how the ISS actually moves around and is navigated.
And I'm not sure two years. Oh, fuck. What's that? Nothing.
I'm not sure two years is enough for the European or NASA two. I'm sorry, the article speaks about how it says after 2024, so it could be anytime after 2024. Okay. So anytime after, well, that's the thing.
I mean, it has to be quite a bit after 2024, because yeah, it takes more than two years for NASA to build a module that would take over navigation and propulsion. I mean, that's a big thing. It's a nice little threat. Who knows?
It's just Putin messing around, I bet. Yeah. To wrap the story here at the end, it says, Mike Gold. Mike Gold, NASA's former associate administrator for Space Policy and Partnerships, said at the conference that on the ISS, there are no big challenges at the space station.
What? There are no big challenges at the space station. Just opportunities. Weird sentence.
Quote, they're on it. You need to grow beyond cold war. It's just proper to many guns. Get out of your Russia.
We don't need you. Quote, we need to grow beyond Cold War paradigm. He said, quotes, and the international partners need to remain focused on continuous presence in Leo. Gold also added that the ISS deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for how it has kept the US and Russia on speaking terms, despite several political challenges over the lifetime of the space station.
So thanks. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, Mike Gold hijacking our argument and claiming that they need a Nobel Peace Prize for it. Mike Gold.
Mike Gold. Yeah. All right. Well, thanks, Mike Gold.
Yeah. Elon responded. He said, bomb voyage. Layer.
Which makes me think Elon's probably going to be the head of the NATO space mech army or something. He's got dollar signs in his eyes, man. He's going to get there's going to be a contract available through NASA or whoever can build the propulsion module and Bezos and Elon are going to compete for it. Elon's going to get the contract.
Bezos is going to throw a temper tantrum and then launch off into space in his big weird rocket again and go out for a little bit. It happens every time. Elon also tweeted, 99% of journalism is reading someone else's story on the internet, changing it up a little bit and pressing send. You're telling me?
Are we? Is that what we do? We just read articles online, change it up and hit send to stream to the world? We don't change it up.
We just we're journalists to journalists. We're not exactly journalists. We're not exactly journalists and the content. No, of course, we're not journalists.
We're a little more deconstruction of the journal. You know why? The scones is because journalists would never carry water for Putin. Oh, more Russia.
Why don't I do Russia? Oh, where's my jingle board? Oh, come on. Here we go.
Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia. Russia, Russia, Russia, folks. There's more news. You may have thought it was over, but there's more.
And where are we going to get this news? RussiaToday.com. That's right. RT, let's carry some water guns.
The headline is, foreign spies tried to force me to take anti-Russia stance. Serbian minister. A major foreign intelligence service has been pressing Serbian interior minister, Alexander Wulin, over his attitude towards Russia and China. The official revealed on Saturday.
The minister expects a large media campaign against him to knock off, to kick off next week. One of the largest intelligence services in the world. If not the largest, he's being so coy at some point. Yeah, he is.
One of the largest intelligence services. And I think CIA is the biggest one. It's got to be CIA. Yeah.
One of the largest intelligence services in the world. If not the largest, told me that my stance was unacceptable and that if I do not change it and do not abandon the policy that I am pursuing, then I will not be a member of the government and they will do absolutely everything to smear me. Rulinto Media Outlet Pink. He expects a media campaign against him to begin next week.
Despite the pressure, the minister said he refused to cooperate in any way with the foreign spies. Quote, I haven't worked and won't work for anyone except for the Serbian people. The Serbian state. And I won't be completely loyal to anyone, except for the president of all Serbs.