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Episode Date: September 4, 2026

Michael was tasked with finding something uplifting. He failed. This is what a slow week for good news looks like. We open on the flooding in Nepal and what you can realistically do when you live in terrain that gives you seven minutes of warning. One school got 14 minutes and everyone made it out. Then the part nobody wants to say out loud: reading the news is taking something from you. I talk about how I decide what to let in. National debt past forty trillion. Bonds selling off. Printing money and calling it something else. Blind loyalty to a party instead of judging what is actually being delivered. The Kennedy Center. Roughly 800 wounded U.S. service members in Iran in six months, the classification that kept those numbers quiet, and a reported airstrike on a wedding. The Lindsay Clancy verdict that never came. Cities cancelling Flock camera contracts, 214 jurisdictions pulling them out, officers using the data to track people they should not be tracking. None of it is a reason to quit. Today's Sponsors:  Helix:  That's https://www.helixsleep.com/CLEAREDHOT for 27% off sitewide. AG1:  Go to https://www.drinkag1.com/clearedhot to get a FREE AG1 Flavor Sampler and AGZ Sampler to try all the flavors, plus FREE Vitamin D3+K2 and AG1 Welcome Kit with your first AG1 subscription order!

Okay, got the red smoke. To the smoke, I'm looking at danger close now. Did you enjoy your week off? Yeah, it was pretty good. What did you do with your time? Haircut, obviously. Haircut, went fishing. Full week.

Full week. Yeah. Which one did you do first? Do you get trimmed up before you fish, so you look good to them, or do you fish first? No. Well, I trimmed up before. I didn't really plan it that way But it was definitely less hot

You know, with that mop on my head What were you fishing for? Just trout Trouser Yes, of course Yeah Figured Yep

What do you use to lure The trouser trout? It's your teeth No, just a fly I'm blinking on the name of the fly right now I bet you are Yeah, I am But yeah, just a pretty basic fly.

I'm getting into fly fishing, so it's pretty fun. Okay. Did you hear back from college? Yes. Did you get in? Yeah. Hell yeah. When do you start?

Whenever spring semester starts, so January at some point. January's not spring. Well, they call it spring semester because it goes like in the spring and then summer break and then fall semester. I should know that from all of my time in college. Yes. Yeah. Come on. So, okay. Before you hit record, you were saying it's real tough to find some uplift. Yeah, I tried. I looked up good news, but there was nothing like even. There were like stories here and there of like localized, but nothing like major. All right. Well, you know how this goes? What suits your fancy? Let's dive in. What are we going to open with?

We're just going to go with nine inch stiletto heel right to the balls to begin with? Or are we going to on ramp this a little bit? I mean, have you seen the Nepal disasters recently? I thought it was AI when I first saw it. It's pretty crazy. Pull up here. Yep, this is what I saw. Yeah, and then there's another video after this. That's even worse, actually.

Nepal. Entire houses swallowed up. And you can see at the bottom of the screen, people running for their lives. Oh, boy. We were able to geolocate this video and thanks to satellite imagery. So there's another portion. I believe it's right here. To the Chinese border.

These satellite images show an entire 5.2. Put together the precise sequence. Oh my god. Yeah. Mixed with rock, water and soil created what's known as a debris flow. That's real. Yeah, look how fast that's moving. And that's not water.

That's like... About 20 kilometers down to This is the crazy one. This border crossing between China and Nepal was hit seven minutes later. The water swept everything away at a speed of about 150 kilometers per hour. Yeah. Dude. Isn't that insane?

I mean, what do you, what can you do? That's what I was going to ask is like from a preparedness, like how do you even prepare for something like this? I mean, is there always something that you can do? Yes. And that would be. and this is if you have the option to do so. I mean, could you look at this terrain and assess that there is some level of residual risk for something like this happening?

Yes. But then I think your only metric of control would be not to live there, which again is assuming that you have the ability economically family. Not be an option for a lot of people. Yeah. I mean, what did they say seven minutes later? Yeah. That's your only other early warning, I guess. And even then, it probably won't be detected.

At the full seven minutes, you know, it might be like five or three minutes. I mean, imagine if we set a stopwatch right now for five minutes. And you had to, obviously where we're at is less, this is a very, for people who are audio only. Very narrow. Yeah, the terrain. They're in the valley on all sides. So this is very, very different terrain. I mean, I think running downstream or upstream useless.

if it's moving at 120. How high can you climb? Right, probably try to get. That's assuming that you have everything with you in that instant that you want to start climbing. You have your family with you. Anything that may be carryable, the notification, a kid that can't be like. In that video you showed where the water was coming through, it showed people being swept out. You can see what?

Yeah, go back to that box. The entire houses swollen up. Watch what happens to this couple in the right. They don't make it. They don't make it. They're going for their lives. Gone. We were able to geo-locate this video

and thanks to satellite imagery. And that's not swimming in a swimming pool. You're moving at a velocity you can't control. There's debris and all sorts of things in that water with you. You're being smashed into things. I think the survivability of that would be not impossible, but very low. Pretty low, yeah. I think your only hope in something like that would be his early warning system.

I don't know, a horn. I mean, this is not even remotely a similar analogy, but in Arizona, people wouldn't think, or maybe people who aren't familiar with how dry the ground is or can get that it won't even absorb the water. So when there is rain in the mountains, there are flash floods because it works itself all the way down. They have systems to try to direct the water.

And I also believe they have warning horns and stuff like that. I don't know what else you could do, man. Yeah. This actually is a bit of good news for this specific situation. Okay. A last minute phone warning gave a school principal just 14 minutes to evacuate over 900 students before a catastrophic flash flood destroyed their school in Nepal. That's awesome.

Diwati immediately rang the school bell. This is what we're talking about. Hall to classes ordered everyone to flee to high. There you go. Higher ground or a nearby hill. And instructed school bus drivers to turn around. Wow. 900 students and 16 faculty members escape safely just minutes before a massive wall of water, mud, and debris swept the entire school building away.

A glacial collapse in the Himalayas triggered severe. That is, like I said, when I first saw that, my initial thought was we live in the world of AI now. Right. That's looking pretty real. We're getting to the point where you can't tell whether it's real or fake. That one was real. Yeah. Dude.

I don't know. I mean. But yeah, like the only thing is like a communal warning system like that or like some sort of detection. And a good set of sneakers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

But like even if you get the full seven minutes, realistically, how far are you going to get up? That doesn't where you start. Mountain like that. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. I feel like with motivation at those levels. Yeah. probably you're probably going to be near maximum effort.

Yeah. Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah. Hopefully, yeah, hopefully high enough. It sucks, man. Yeah. And I think what sucks the most with things like this is a lot of families are going to be left with somebody just missing. Right.

And not being able to find the bottom. And that sucks. Yeah. Not knowing whether they made it. Yeah. Yeah. The closure aspect of that or lack thereof, I suppose it would be. Yeah.

down, Michael, just death destruction. Yeah. I warned you that it was a pretty slow news week for good news. Well, and then what do you do? Do you go full Florida and just rebuild exactly where the tornado destroyed your house?

Do you, does something like this? I mean, obviously the infrastructure is destroyed. Do you rebuild? Yeah. I mean, I'm no engineer or geologist but I don't think any dam or barrier in the world was going to stop that thing. It probably would have ramped it up and over and made even worse. Yeah. Yeah.

Not good. But at least, you know, those students got out and that's some small. As far as good news in a catastrophe. Yeah. Yeah. I think about as good of the news as you're going to get. Yeah. Okay.

What else do you have? What's next? What depressing story do we have next? when you read the news does it make you does it give you hope or take away hope from you oh it almost always takes away hope what do you read it then i know the desire to stay informed but if it has that emotional and i i asked that question because this is something that i have to balance with myself the interaction with news sources or social media what does it emotionally leave you

feeling do you feel inspired do you feel enrived Do you feel drained? Do you feel hollow? Do you feel depressed? Do you feel deprived of hope? I think you have to keep track of all that stuff. Yeah. No, it's definitely like my for a while, like my last thing that I would kind of use regularly was YouTube because a lot of times it wouldn't show me news. But recently it's been popping up news stories and I'm like, are you clicking on? Well, no, but it's just like even the video title. It'll have a video title of like this happened. I'm like, great. Of course it did. So now I'm like, well, now I don't even really want to go on YouTube anymore just because it's like... What does that leave you? Honestly, in a better place, though, because now it's like I don't want to really want to go on my phone, which is just better in general. So then I focus my efforts on things that I enjoy doing.

Like fishing. Fishing, drawing, reading. And honestly, yeah, it puts you in a better mindset if you do stuff like that. Fishing, drawing, reading. Yeah. You're like a modern day post. it. Except I don't write poetry. Yet.

Yeah, that's to come. That's to come. Yeah. You're not selling your artwork either. Does that mean we can't call you an artist? I'm definitely not an artist. Well, not with that attitude. If you saw my artwork, you would say I wouldn't. Have you seen some of Picasso's early shit? Emphasis on shit?

Yeah. I actually have. Yeah. I don't. It's interesting. Look this up to make sure. I don't, I believe he may have sold one painting while he was alive. Today's episode is brought to you by Helix. You guys know the deal. This is the easiest ad read that I'm going to do because I've slept on a Helix mattress for years. Leah and I just returned from the origin Jiu-Tzu Camp in Maine where we're not staying on a Helix mattress. And guess what we were talking about the entire way home?

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Well, he actually an estimated 4,500 during his lifetime. Maybe you're painted 4,500? No, he's sold. You may be thinking of Van Gogh. Because I don't think he was appreciated. Change the search terms and put Van Gogh in there. Clearly, I'm thinking of an artist of some times. Because I don't think.

That is much more appreciated now than when he was living. Yes, I'm pretty sure. While popular lore says Vince Vagelso only the Red Vineyard during his lifetime, the exact number is debated because he also traded art and completed early commissions. So not as many, though, as like. No. And I'm pretty sure it is Van Gogh. That was not appreciated.

Yeah. You just slay. after you're dead. Yeah. Yeah. And Van Gogh was like legitimately like pretty good. I mean, in my opinion,

of course, it's subjective. But again, look at the early artwork for just about any, well, other than I guess an abstract artist, but they're not, you know what I mean?

The stuff that you're seeing in the art centers and I have seen a couple of Van Goghs, man, they're layered. Yeah, they're good. And a lot of them are super tiny too. I didn't realize that.

Yeah. No, it's, and even I will be honest, I am even coming around on abstract and modern art. Of course you are. Yes, yes. I used to be of the mindset where I'm like, nope, it's all shit.

It's totally like there can be no value in this. What caused the change? Just I was thinking about it more and also like going to museums and seeing those artworks. And then getting, you know, having some sort of emotional reaction from seeing that. And then realizing it's like, oh, maybe it's not like, trying to draw the perfect picture, but rather evoke an emotional reaction from a simple idea. We're getting very deep and complex.

Yes. This Friday episode, my eyes. What's the most emotional reaction you've ever had sitting in front of the work of art? I think I would have to think about that. And think about which artwork it would have been. Oh, I think there's a painting. I think it's Washington crossing the Delaware.

Huge. Yeah, the one at the, what's it called? It's in New York. Yeah, the Met, right? Yes. Yes. I didn't realize how big that was. It's quite large.

And standing in front of it, I was like, it's about the size of the wall that is in front of it. Yeah, like legitimately. It is ginormous. That was really cool. Not only like, was it an amazing painting, but also just the scale of it was just, it's pretty crazy.

to stand in front of it. What was the emotional reaction you had? Um, it was more awe than anything. Um, yeah. And then a lot of, uh, paintings by, I'm blanking on his name right now, but he draws, he was very impactful. Very impactful. He draws, uh, uh, uh, like Western. He was in 1800s. He draws a lot of like Western landscapes and he's very, very good at it. Um, it's like, it's not, it's, it's out. Anyways. Fair enough. I can see he's, he's at. I can see his. had an impact on you. Very. Such a tremendous impact.

You've forgotten his name. Yes, exactly. Moving along, what do we have? Question two. Okay. Question two. Section two, I should say. Section two, yeah.

The U.S. debt recently suppresses $40 trillion, and there's also a bond crisis at the same time. Oh, man. This is, where's my phone? I'm going to read something that a buddy of mine sent me, and then we were chatting about, and he was talking about the reaction that he received when he posted this. And it ties to this.

And I don't know what's going on. As anybody who's ever listened to this show, you know that I am not an expert in geopolitics. This is what he posted. POV. It's 2027. The dollar is no longer the world currency. Gas is $7 a gallon. China has taken Taiwan and our debt is at 50 trillion.

Gavin Newsom is the commanding presidential frontrunner. However, the sun is now known as the Star of America. So obviously, that is commentary on everything that seems to be going on. Before I say anything else, I'm not a political expert. I have said this so many times. I believe in being able to call balls and strikes. And I think that you can support whatever party, whatever team that you are a part of, and also be critical of the things that just don't seem to be making any sense.

This is an example. You know, I thought that the campaign promises of Donald Trump were about ending wars, fixing the economy. I will say, I think immigration has been impactful and successful, especially in comparison to the previous four years before that. Anything that he has delivered for up to that point, I would say that one is, we're going to put that one in the how. You could talk about certain enforcement actions, things like that. But however, what I mean is the net change on numbers of specifically illegal immigration. Yeah. I think, you know, it doesn't seem like.

there is a plan of what's going on in Iran. He, because he is in essentially a trade dispute with Canada, he wants to rename, what was it, Lake Ottawa or something like that? Like Ontario. Whatever. Ontario, Ottawa, whatever. The Lake of America. And I just don't understand how people are ignoring that, but we'll get behind.

Let's rename it the Lake of America. Like, is there nothing more important that you have to do as the commander? And I realize you can do more things than just one thing at once. But what is going on? That's a, yeah. So before, though, the response to that from his conservative friends were what's happened to you. I could see everything that he is saying in that post being completely accurate. Yeah.

But again, he, this individual. would tell you he is a conservative to the bone. Mm-hmm. But he's critical of the things that don't make sense to him or that he didn't feel like he voted for. And the base, whatever size it may be, that for whatever reason is so blindly loyal to this person, which I'm all about loyalty,

but again, can we just call balls and strikes? Can we say that some of this stuff is completely unnecessary and is not helping our country while supporting the things that we think are having an impact. It was, we had a full on just conversation about what happened after he posted that from people that he thought he knew well because they thought he had betrayed his conservative values by being critical. Like our country is going to go under economically if we don't correct some of the things that we are doing. Yeah.

And like from what I've been hearing, I don't know. I'm not an economic expert, but the bond thing is actually kind of a big deal. What is the bond thing? This is the first I've heard of this. Apparently, so let's see. $40 trillion. Yeah. And also to be like sort of fair to Trump, this is a train that has left the station a long time ago. There are many administrations that are complicit in us getting to this point. So this isn't totally Trump's fault on this one.

Hello, Ari. come on in nobody can see him but Ari is assuming the tersiary kuck position yes actually you're right behind a camera so that's good it's exactly you're filling the role well you guys will meet Ari later because he's Michael's replacement

yes he'd him approximately four months Ari and I were thinking about getting rid of you in like four days okay give you more time to fish for your trouser gel yes true all right so what's the bond thing so apparently again, not exactly sure what this means,

but treasury yields. Yep. A sharp global bond sell-off has driven U.S. 10-year treasury yields up to roughly 4.8% and 30-year yields past 5.2, reflecting intensifying fiscal anxieties. I don't know what that means. I'm going to assume that those two numbers are tied together. Well, just Google what was our national debt 10 years ago?

I mean, at what number does it get to a point where the United States, becomes bankrupt. So it was $19 trillion 10 years ago. And now I think I heard something about quantitative easing that is happening now, which is the U.S. buying back its own debt. I was going to say, can you use words that I understand? Yes. What?

Stealing. What do you mean? I mean, quantitative easing is printing money, which is stealing from everybody. Ari says that quantitative easing is printing money. Why don't they just call it printing money then? So an unconventional monetary policy where a central bank creates new electronic money to buy long-term assets like government bonds from commercial banks. That's a self-licking ice cream code.

Yes. Well, that and that's why people are so worried about it is because how do we reverse this? Dude, like it seems like we're kind of like. This is on your generation. We need to sort this shit, Michael. Not you? Because we're aware of your glass ceiling limitations. Yes.

Your cohort. But anyways, I think like the risk long term is the dollar is no longer used as the global reserve currency. Which if and when that happens, what does that even look like for the U.S.? I don't know, but I think we're going to find out in our lifetime. Can you Google, when was the last time that we decreased our national deficit? I feel like it wasn't that long ago, but it was for a short period of time. Well, that's a U.S. deficit decreased. The U.S. federal budget deficit last decreased in 2025, dropping to $1.78 trillion, a decrease of $41 billion for the previous fiscal year.

That's the budget. That's the budget. A budget deficit. Do you mean when has debt gone down? Yeah. When is the U.S. national debt decreased? Okay. Yeah, because the budget still shifted.

I think I misunderstood you. Clearly. The last time U.S. annual budget ran a surplus that paid down the overall national debt was 0-1, the final year of the Clinton administration. So just a good quarter of a century of just foot on the gas of debt. Just spend. Spend. Yeah. And I wonder, I would have no problem paying more taxes if they could show me they were a good steward of my money.

and I think a lot of people would be on board with that. But given that regardless of what party is in office, regardless of what they say when they go and run for an election cycle, that they're going to fix the debt, they're going to lower the debt, that it just goes up and up and up and up for the last quarter century, I don't blame people for not wanting to give the government another dime. Yes.

And on a more, on kind of a different track, but the same road. I don't blame people for voting for things, like people who are with like the DSA and the Democratic Socialists. Michael, you go fuck yourself. Because. All right. Are you advocating for socialism?

No, no, no. I'm not. Sounds like what you just said. But. However, comma. However, comma. You have to agree when you see this time after time and it doesn't matter if it's Democrat or Republican. But does that mean that a socialist party is the answer that should be pushed into the breach there?

No, I don't think so. But what that is not surprising that that's happening. It still surprises me because there is not a historic example of socialism that has worked out well in the long run. Yes. Would you consider Europe socialist? No. Maybe aspects. Yeah, aspects.

Here's an example. We have aspects of socialism in the United States. The fire department is a good example of that. Yes. Right? So it's not as if there aren't certain policies of a socialist ideology that I'm saying that don't make sense. But let's talk about a pure socialist country. If you point to me an example of one that's just slang.

No. And I mean. And that's my issue. Countries that say they are like China is definitely not. Like they have very heavy free market. Same thing with Vietnam. North Korea. And we can all see how North Korea is doing.

Yeah, a five-star hotspot for vacations in immigration. Last I checked, people are fucking fleeing North Korea, not running to immigrate into North Korea. Yeah. So again, it's, do I understand we need to vote for something else? Yes. Does that mean you need to vote for something that has absolutely no proven track record whatsoever? I don't think so. That doesn't work for me, but I guess I can understand what you're saying.

People are looking at any other. option that the absolute recycled bullshit that seems to be repackaged and presented to us. And that's, I'm saying is I don't even blame them because it's like, especially as a young person, it's like, what are we supposed to do? You know, like keep voting for the same thing that's gotten us into this situation. I told you about my theory for the passive aggressive civil war, right? No. Everybody stops paying their taxes. But there's a problem though. Employers pay the vast majority of taxes. You have to get employers on board.

You have to kind of pay taxes. But the passive aggressive civil war might actually, in concept, work because if you remove the purse strings and their ability to do anything, I think they would pay attention. However, I just don't know if that's even remotely possible. Yeah. I mean, I'm pretty sure, I think we did talk about this. Because I'm pretty sure you can on your some sort of form, say, exempt. And then you pay it manually instead of the employer taking it out of your check. And then you just don't pay it.

your deductions? No, there is a, I'm pretty sure there's a spot where you can say exempt. Listen, is somebody who knows a lot about taxes now? I'm not sure what you're saying is correct. You can claim exemption from federal income tax withholding only if you had no tax liability in the previous year and expect that. Okay. Yeah, you're talking about withholdings. Yeah. Man, here's the thing. I think it can work. But you, would need to get a large group of people to join you to begin with. Otherwise, you might be on the receiving end of the eye of Sauron of the U.S. government and the IRS.

Yes. Yeah. Well, that's the thing. It's like the risk of doing that is so great that if not, if less than a third of the country does it, you're screwed, basically. I don't know if we could get a third of the country to agree on anything right now. Oh. I would agree with that.

Great. So in that instance, I don't think they... How did we start on this topic? I'm not... Oh, $40 trillion. Yeah, $40 trillion in that post. I can see everything in that post. And I could see people...

Just like my buddy who put that up, I could see people ignoring everything else because of this blind allegiance that just doesn't make sense. Well, and also it was just like... I don't know. In my opinion, I don't think you should just blindly follow anything, any idea or anybody without always being critical. Everybody, not everybody, that's an improper way to say that.

A lot of people seem to think that what's going on on Iran isn't a big deal. How many U.S. service members do you think have been injured? Don't Google it. Just guess. 30. Sorry? Almost 800. Oh.

Where is this? I haven't seen this reported at all. Google it. You know why? They withheld the information and just changed the reporting recently. Google it. How many U.S. service members have been injured in, I don't know what to call it. Semi official war, although it hasn't been declared in Iran? 759. Yep. Have them wounded the war.

So the Pentagon's defense casualty system tracks these figures across two, blah, blah, blah. So why has this not been reported? until recently? Do you know? This puts me into the realm of hypothesizing. Yeah. But my guess is they didn't want to put that number in front of the American public.

So, yes, I understand that. But, but, like, do you know why the, like the actual mechanism of why it wasn't reported? Do you know what I'm saying? It was a classification system. Okay. Gotcha. Yeah. 750 people, wounded.

I think 12 or 8. have been killed. Yeah. And no end in sight. No end in sight. And just saying the, a government withholding true reports from the citizens. They wouldn't say that.

They would say it was miscategorized. Of course they would. Yeah. So 800, I'm just going to use 800 because it'll be there soon enough. Yeah. That's a lot of people getting wounded. And I'm pretty sure most of that is from out.

outbound drones and missiles from Iran. Yeah. They are hucking. I think they had way more capability to reach the bases that we probably thought were at a safe distance or had an ability to protect than we had forecast or foreshadowed. Yeah.

So, yeah, so 800, I guess you could just say casualties. Right. Would that be included in that word? Because casualties includes injured, right? Yes. Okay. 800 casualties in... Almost.

Six months. Yep. Over 100 per month. Yep. And... Where's the reports on that? None. Like, this is the first I've heard of it.

Because I had always heard 12, 13. Deaths. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, no, this is the first I'm hearing of that. And no end in sight and no reason for this. The aircraft carrier that had been out to sea forever is currently in Thailand. I did hear that.

Let me just tell you. I've seen lots of memes about the ship doctors being stressed out. They are out of penicillin and there may not be any more alcohol in Thailand. There is a cash economy that is crushing right now currently. they are probably flying in airplane loads of booze. Yeah. There is some steam being let off. Yeah.

That's crazy to me. I mean, that it doesn't necessarily surprise me, but the withholding of those numbers is actually kind of a scary. It paints a different picture. If you look at most traditional media, it's we have domination, we have control of this, that, or the other. They're contained.

They're almost dead. The IRGC, even though most of them aren't even in Iran. They're probably sitting on their yachts in fucking Monte Carlo. And at what cost? And I'll be the first person to tell you. I believe in military action at the right time for the right reasons. But let's be honest about the toll that it takes. I mean, this is over 100 service members injured, wounded per month since this has started.

Where is the reporting on that? Yeah. And then piggybacking off of that and casualties, the recently, where is it, I have so many tabs open here. How many do you have? A lot. A wedding was just bombed. Did you hear about that in Iran? No. No. What's the source on this? What's not about a reported U.S. Air Strike that hit the head? So it's reported. Huh. Scroll down. U.S.

Middlehood at home in southern Iran where dozens were gathered to celebrate a wedding of a fisherman's daughter according to Wrights Group and Iranian media. Well, I'm going to tell you that last, those two last words right there

I'm going to take with a very heavy dose of salt. I agree. Possible. However, I have personally seen instances where a couple of things have happened. They'll use family gatherings

for meetings of very high-level individuals. I have seen it where it is 100% a strike in civilian casualties are the result of that. It's a blend of the two. And then also where a strike, great intelligence, but the reporting on the ground puts this out because it's a propaganda victory for that. So I don't know. And without having clarifying information, U.S. Central Command spokesman, Captain Hawkins said the U.S. military was looking into the reports of the strike on a wedding. He cannot say if the military had launched a formal investigation.

So little information has come out of the remote area. On this one, I would wait and see, I would wait to see what happened if there could be an actual investigation. I've seen that go a variety of different ways. Yeah. Because like, on one hand, why would you have a family gathering

where all the strikes are happening? Well, they probably, just so you know, didn't have a map of where they were all planned. Right, but this was like right by, I think it said, string of towns the dot the barren coast line along the straight of horror moves i don't necessarily know if there's been a lot of strikes there um so let's let's so in a hypothetical world let's take this reporting as it being accurate which sucks but war is not a scalpel it is not as precise as people wanted to be maybe it was good and again this is in a hypothetical world maybe the intelligence was

great maybe the weapon didn't land where it was supposed to maybe the grid coordinate wasn't what you thought it was going to be, maybe hit exactly where it wanted to, but it was, the intelligence was wrong, which does happen. This is why military power should be used as a measure of last resort. Well, yeah, exactly. Like, even giving all of those graces, this is still, in my opinion, an unjust military operation that started for, I can't, I don't know if we have a legitimate reason. The narrative seems to be shifting a lot more heavy towards it was to deter Iran from achieving the nuclear weapon, which I thought that was what the strikes were for six months previously, where we used the stealth bomber on those multiple locations because I believe the words that were used were obliterated.

So it either was not true then or it isn't true now. I don't know. I'm yet to see really clear messaging on this. So don't know what to tell you. and there was, you know, whether this was a good deal or not, there was a deal in place under Obama for the Iranian nuclear, whatever Ellen would pull up. I don't think it matters if there's a deal in place or not.

The question you have to ask yourself is, regardless of what sign do you think that the IRGC is going to stick to it? I think the answer is probably no. Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah. And who knows if this was actually happening? but yeah right before my last appointment in 2010 there was a civcast incident a civilian

casualty incident where they thought a vehicle loaded down with terrorists was traveling along it was a school bus that had a family and children on it and that drastically changed the rules of engagement in i think pretty much theater wide when it came to releasing ordinance from a ground controller and you had to have such absolute certainty. And early on in the war, I mean, if somebody came out with a pistol and shot at you, you could level everything. You could just like, yeah, just drop all your bombs. And that's, you know, I'm making light of it's a very choreographed back and forth and it's not that easy, but you could be very heavy-handed in your response. And the proportionality of that got all the

way down to if you were being shot out from a building that was surrounded in a village and you could not be absolutely sure that there wasn't going to be additional damage to other structures. The likelihood of them letting you drop on that building was so incredibly low. So it shifts over time for reasons when things like this happen. Yeah. So war sucks, man. Yes. There's a lot of people other than just soldiers on both sides or military members or government members on both sides that are impacted by, you know, the horrors of what it looks like.

Yeah. Yeah. What other downers do you have for today? Don't worry. I still have more. Great. Have you heard of any of the Lindsay Clancy things, trial stuff? Yes, peripherally. Is this, okay, did this woman kill her children with exercise bans and then attempt to kill herself? And now people can't decide whether or not she did it or not? So I don't think, from my understanding, and this is not me trying to, like, excuse anything.

just the facts that I know. People aren't debating whether or not she did it. Okay. Or I guess the people that are supporting her, but rather they are calling for her to be more understood because of mental health struggles. Understood how? Understood in that they claim that the mental health system failed Lindsay Clancy because it's maybe not biased against women, but isn't in women's best interest. And let me pull up an argument about this because I already heard it.

Okay. I almost want you to continue with your version of it because I know you'll get destroyed in the comments and I look forward to reading them. No, I'm not supporting this at all by the way. I'm just saying this is what I have heard about this. I believe I was reading a saw something today. They sent them back again to deliberate again because they're coming back to. There was a hung jury, which in my opinion is, I don't know if it's telling because I don't know, like we don't know who the jury is. It's six women and three men. So, yeah. And I don't know

if that, I'm sure that would sway some people's opinions in one way or another. All right. School down. Women rally in support of Lindsay Clancy at her trial. Hundreds of Lindsay Clancy's supporters, many wearing pink clothing emblazoned with Frasius sisters believe she needed help in peace for Lindsay gathered Thursday outside the courthouse where she's on trial in the killings of her three children. Okay. Several of the three and a few men said Clancy's story resonated with them and that they wanted to raise awareness about how the mental health system treats women. Clancy's the lawyer does not dispute

that she killed her children, okay, but says she could not be held criminally responsible because she was mentally ill. Oh, interesting. And so I think that's the part that her supporters are focusing on the most. Oh, dude, after strangling her children, she jumped from a second story window and remains paralyzed from the waist down.

Yeah. Moving on, scroll down. Prosecutors say the former labor and delivery nurse planned the January 24th, 2023 killings and contrived to get her husband out of the house by sending him to pick up medicine for one of the children and dinner for the family. They have also questioned the seriousness of her suicide attempt. And witnesses have testified that Clancy wouldn't always take her prescribed medications. That's actually super common, especially...

Disclaimer, I'm not a doctor. but in talking to people who deal with this, especially if you're dealing with certain medications, and I believe bipolar is an aspect of this, they take them, they start feeling better, and then they'll say, I don't need to take these anymore. Oh, it worked. I don't need to do it, yeah.

I'm not bipolar. I have no experience with that, but I'm saying I've heard about this. So women are being dismissed, neglected, and Nord, when we speak up at April, Vince, at a 50-2 or paralegal from Providence, Rhode Island. We're scared because nobody takes us seriously. What are you talking about?

Like, what is she? basing that off of? I don't know. Like maybe her own experiences, but I am not sure. Go down to there. Clancy 36 has pleaded not guilty to murder charges

and the deaths of her children ranged from eight months to five years old. Rush and estimates that postpartum psychosis, which is a more serious and less common than postpartum depression

afflicts one to two per 1,000 women after delivery. I... Okay, so the lawyer doesn't dispute that she killed the kids. The question is, was she is sound mind, essentially, when she did it? I believe that's the main thing that people are arguing over. I mean, I was about to ask, I mean, there's three dudes sitting in a room right now,

so we're basically as unqualified as humanly possible to comment on women's mental health and how they're received when they go and talk to somebody. But why would they be taken any less seriously than a guy? I don't know. And like you said, we're dudes and I've never... Two of us are. One's kind of fluid.

Yeah, true. You know? That sucks. I mean, I think mental health should be taken very seriously. I think that when people reach out for help, they should be taken at their word. I don't think there should be a difference between men and women when they reach out.

I'm not understanding what would, What were they chanting justice for whatever her name is? For Lindsay. Yeah. Justice for Lynn. What was the very first sentence? At the top, they're, uh, believe she needed help and peace for Lindsay. Okay.

She needed help. I'll get on board with that. Believe, I'm not necessarily sure what they're saying, believe, other than maybe she said she needed help and nobody believed her. Yeah. Peace for Lindsay. Today's episode is brought to you by AG1. Let's talk about AG1 pro. It is built on the clinically backed formula of AG1 NextGen.

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I mean, I think the fact that she took her children's life is horrendous. I think that's the biggest thing here we should be focusing on. Yeah, but I also don't know inside of the legal system. I mean, there are people who will do stuff and then claim insanity or where they were, can you mentally be held responsible for your actions at that time? There's a difference between premeditation and acting in emotion. All of that stuff I'm not even remotely qualified or capable of talking about. If they can't reach a verdict, what does that mean? Does that mean they do another trial?

I have a timeline here of the whole thing. It sounds like there's nothing good. Even if they were, well, yeah, God, what a horrible picture of the kids. Not horrible and like, it was actually a great picture, but horrible what happened to them. I think there's a, yeah, jury deliberation begins. So what happens? It was a hung jury, right? I think so.

Hung or deadlocked? Well, the judge keeps sending him back. Still deadlocked. Judge could declare mistrial. This was 45 minutes ago. Okay. So, if the fifth day of deliberations. If a mistrial is declared, is that it?

I mean, she's not tried? I watched enough suits during the pandemic that I should know the answers to all. The trial is canceled. No verdicts is reached. And the case returns to a pre-trial status. So I think they do it again. Oh, dear. So this is another, what, three years?

So this happened in 2020. Well, again, she's not disputing that she killed the kids. It sounds like what they're trying to figure out is what the punishment should be. And I think maybe if she should be declared mentally unfit for whatever person. But if it was postpartum psychosis and she's through that, is, or you declared mentally unfit during the time that you took those actions? But what about now? Yeah. I don't know.

I don't either. Yeah. Do you have a single positive thing of your list of topics today? Because we are really down the toilet bowl right now. I told you that I really tried. I really tried. You didn't. If this is your best effort, I worry about your future and love.

mithe. But this is why I'm just not reading the news anymore. What else you got? We got time for like one more. Okay. Let's see here. Come on. The computer's being very slow today. Oh, this is kind of good news. I can't wait. This is what Michael can say. Oh, yeah, this is people. Okay, I'm going to get on board with this. U.S. cities are terminating flood camera contracts at record after nationwide pushback. Also, savages are out there with BB guns. Spray from insulation. Saozles.

Sausalls. We are deep into the FAAFO matrix when it comes to the fuck camera. Green lasers. Have you heard about that? They're just shining the laser at the camera. All right, you're a good question. A person to ask this question, too, as a photographer, do lasers, if you, like your high-end photography camera,

people was somebody was saying it's really difficult to shoot at raves or whatever because of that those laser things that come down is it true that it ruins your camera sensor i i remember it used to like old cameras used to not be able to point at the sun because of that okay already says old cameras can't point at the sun which is not the question i asked him but i've been able to shoot at concerts before or not have to do you think a high like one of those concert lasers if it did crossover, because it's a sensor now as opposed to actual film for most cameras.

Would it ruin the sensor? I've heard of filters that people put on the front of them. I don't know, though. I don't think it would ruin it, but I'm sure there's some lasers that add a little more oomph to it. So high-powered lasers apparently can permanently damage to destroy

the digital sensors inside a flock safety camera. Okay, so I'd have to assume then that through the magnification of the lens of a camera, I bet you it could fry the sensor on the camera body. But I think you have to get, oh, laser with the output of 500 megawatts. So that's a pretty powerful laser. Listen, Michael, if you were to ask me to tell you the difference between 550 and 500 megawatts,

I'm going to say that one has a zero. One has two. And I don't know. So what are we talking? We're talking about shoulder fired laser at this time? No, I mean, I don't think it's big physically. But a standard one you get at like a store, I think is five or not megawatts, milawatts.

Yeah. And so this is 500 millawatts is what it would take to destroy a... I'm not advocating anybody break the law. I just think it's very

interesting to see the natural result of when people are waking up to the realization that their privacy is being crept in upon at a startling rate. Scroll down a little bit.

Yes. Let's take a look. We have flock cameras in Calispo. Did you guys know that? I heard. Just in the lowest parking lot that I'm pretty sure.

Which is where spray foam insulation incident occurred. Oh, did that happen here? Yes. Yes. I mean, that's terrible. I can't believe anybody would do such a thing. Yeah.

Honestly, the last vision was probably some ginger-headed fuck with a mustache. He's probably to disguise his identity, but he had his whatever, just a painter's hat on. Let me see, we got here. Municipal governments around the country are ending their association with flock safety. Yep, yep, the surveillance camera. What we got here? 214 jurisdictions have been sold and then remove flock cameras since 2021. Scroll down.

The United States is one of the only nations on earth with any constitutional and or legal protections against surveillance. So Americans don't always look for safeguards. But flock cameras seemingly have triggered the nation. From the citizenry to the Senate, people are calling for their removal of privacy abuse and mass data collection concerns. Yeah, they're worried about it's an infringement on the Fourth Amendment. limit. It's gnarly. So this.

Here's a Google term for you. Google, how many police officers, I don't know what the crowd term would be. Misused. Have misused flock camera data to locate ex-girlfriends. Dude, if you had access to that database, that would be real tough not to do. At least 50 law enforcement officers nationwide have been accused, disciplined, or charged with misusing automated license place where you're networks. I'm not saying they should have been using it for those things, but I can understand why they felt the temptation to do so. Yeah. This case right here is probably the

scariest to me of why these flock cameras are a huge breach of privacy. And no matter where you stand on abortion, you can replace this quote unquote crime with any other crime. Yeah, I've seen this. I've seen reports of flock cameras only being on the entrance and exit of gun ranges, gun stores. What, for those who are audio only, a Texas law enforcement officer used flock safety automated license plate reader cameras to track a woman across state lines who was suspected self-administering and abortion. What, first off, what is self-administering and abortion mean?

I hope it's not what it sounds like, because that in and of itself sounds horrific. Or is that the morning after pill? Which I don't know how that works at all. I'm not, okay. I'm not sure. Yeah, okay. 80,000 automates. So we have LPR.

here, which are license plate readers. I don't know if you guys know that. Some of the cop cars, I think the Highway Patrol, some sheriff, and I think some KPD have those. So those are largely, they can do the same thing. They are passively just sniffing every license plate that they can read. But those are only on cop cars. So you, right? Sure. So you have to, a cop has to be. Every one in my house. You know what I'm saying? Of course. Yes. The search logs explicitly noted the inquiry was tied to a woman who, in parentheses, had an abortion, searched for female. The case sparked intense national debate and scrutiny over how law enforcement used private mass surveillance networks to monitor citizens across jurisdiction and state boundaries. He had no shit.

Following this and other high-profile officer misuse scandals, such as police stalking ex-partners, privacy advocates civil liberties groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and multiple. multiple cities have pushed back against or suspended contracts with flux safety. Here's the thing. I get the argument for having them too. I do too. I totally get it. And that's what people will say, well, you're not going to feel that way if they find

a missing person in your family. And it's like, I can understand where you're coming from. But are we willing to live in a 100% surveillance state? Because we are moving that way rapidly. I mean, it's getting to the point where the second you step outside your house, you're basically, people know where you are at all times, especially with facial recognition software. How do you think you have to step outside of your house? True. Very true. Why don't you Google the technology based off of Wi-Fi routing? Wi-Fi mapping. You don't even need to step out of your house.

Nope. They know exactly. Yep. Yep. I know exactly what you're like. Which means how do we defeat that? You borrow your neighbor's Wi-Fi. Ask them, obviously. Do not get your own Wi-Fi. That's what I'm saying. Do you need to step out of your house? house. No, they don't. Because let's forget our anxiety rectangles that manage every, you know, aspect of our lives. We're tracking everything that you're doing on your phone, your shopping habits, your social circles.

This is not, this is probably purposely giving us the wrong thing for surfeilance. There you go. The video down below. The Wi-Fi can see you. Yeah. Yeah. And this is only going to, we don't need to watch the whole video. People can go check it out.

This is only going to continue to grow. So, yeah. we are entering a surveillance state. Michael, I'm not really happy with the things you chose today. Yeah, I'm not either, but this is unfortunately kind of reflective.

The next time we do this, can we do positive only? Yeah, I can, I'll scour. It'll take some scouring, but I can do it. I'm going to take the revolt to the flock cameras

is slightly positive. I'm going to go out on a hind-out. I think that's positive too. Because, I think it's telling that almost everybody you talk to doesn't want these things, yet they're going up everywhere. And that to me... Because the people you talk to aren't the ones responsible for putting them up. Exactly.

And that to me, I mean, is totally counterintuitive to a representative democracy or republic. Okay. Would you agree with that statement? I stopped listening to you when you were talking. Thank you. That's good. That's actually, you listen longer than expected those. I was thinking about flock cameras and you were talking about representative

democracy. When you start using words, I don't know, I just, I'm like, blah, wow. Yeah. What I'm worried is, what I was thinking about is whether this is accidental or it's all a collaborated effort to get people to feel like they can't do anything so they throw their hands up

up and then whoever is doing this type of stuff can just do more of it. And I don't want people to get to that place because, is nobody can make you quit or give up anything except for yourself. So if you convince yourself that, oh, this, this is happening, that's happening, that's happening, natural disaster. All the news is negative. We can't have any impact. So I'm not just not going to do anything.

I think that makes it easier for others to do whatever they want to do. But it's tough. I mean, everything we just covered today sucks. Yeah. You missed it. All right. We covered Nepal. I don't know if you saw that footage.

Bro. Crazy. Michael. Those were literally my exact words. And then Michael says, what can you do from a preparedness perspective? So tough. Yeah, I would say manage your information uptake. Like this today sucks.

All of this stuff sucks. If this was all I saw in a day, it would make you feel as if the sky is falling to a degree. And then you saw it two days in a row. But we're not powerless. I'm not saying we're all powerful, but individually, I don't know if there's anything we can do at a national level anymore. but I do know that you can impact the world that you live in with your, you know, your eyes, your ears, your hands, your feet, all those things. And people will say, well, that doesn't really mean anything because, you know, that's not where the decisions are being made. Okay.

What else are you going to do? You're going to sit there and quit. You're just going to give up, you know, I can't control what's going on in Washington. I'm not sure anybody's in control of what's going on in Washington to be totally honest with you. Seems like no. Did you hear? What's the place that Trump is trying to get his name? They put his name on the, it was the Kennedy Center.

On the Kennedy Center. Okay. Check you out. tear it down? That was one of the things he threatened. So at first, though, they put the, I don't know what it's called. They applied the words to the side. Now they're going to inscribe it.

That is the next step that he wants to do. God. Do you know who the chairman of the Kennedy Center is? Uh-uh. Look it up. Let's see. Go ahead. Tell everybody.

It is none other than Donald Trump himself. He was elected by a handpicked board of trustees in February 25. After replacing prior leadership. Yeah. Wow, that's... So the board at the Kennedy Center who was picked by Trump, who is headed by Trump

is demanding that they inscribe his name into the Kennedy Center or they will tear it down. Shocking. Well, more good news. The sun will become the star of America. You know, I could unfortunately see that. Okay, okay.

We're going to end it for today, but it's going to be on a positive note. How are we going to get out of this? That was a question for you, Michael. I'm drawing a blank, if I'm being honest. I think the answer is manage the amount of information that you consume that gives you in a negative emotional reaction. I'm not saying be oblivious, but if you start feeling that way, put it down for a minute and just go for a walk. I think so too.

Yeah. And midterm elections are coming up. And if you don't like the way things are being run. I swear to God, if you say vote for the DSA candidate, I'm not saying that. I'm saying you have the power, some sort of power. this is like the one direct connection you have to maybe change things if you don't like how it's going. Nice, Mike. That's all I'm saying.

Good. Is your generation going to fix this? No. So. Are you telling me that Julia's generation is going to have to fix this? That's even scarier, actually. Damn. Well, the cool thing is I think we're going to be okay.

We'll be all right. It's going to get rough. It's going to get ugly. but we're going to be okay it'll be interesting for a little bit but yeah we'll be back the star of America star of America we'll shine again tell everything