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Episode Date: September 18, 2026

I asked for positive news this week. What I got was surveillance, a global humiliation, and a man duct taped to his seat at thirty thousand feet. We open with reporting that Homeland Security has been analyzing the financial data of American citizens, and that some units have used it to steer local police toward pretextual traffic stops. Banks have run keyword filters on transactions. Agencies have swept up bulk records from money transfer services. Credit reports, utility bills and location data get purchased outright from private brokers, which sidesteps the Fourth Amendment entirely. There is a term for where that ends up. Turnkey totalitarianism is a system where every pillar of mass surveillance is built and operational, waiting on one person to connect it. I could not steel man the argument that we are not already there. From there we get into age and capacity in elected office, Apple's attempt to certify that a photograph is real, and why current AI produces novel output but not novel thought. Then it lightens up. A competitive fitness scandal goes worldwide. An actor announces what he would do to people in a fight. A first class passenger gets restrained with zip ties and duct tape between Dallas and Newark. We close with 163 missing children recovered in Florida in four days.  Today's Sponsors:  Willies Remedies:  Order now at https://www.drinkwillies.com and use code CLEAREDHOT for 20% off your first order plus free shipping on orders over $95. Or use the store locator to find Willie's on shelves near you, like your local Total Wine, Specs, ABC or local liquor store 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. We are now. Okay. Just for the record. You promised some positivity. Yeah. Here.

I have some. Okay. Also, let's bring the world up to speed on current life developments for Michael. What's that? Who got a new belt in Jiu Jitsu? I mean. That would be you dips shit. Don't pretend like you don't know who I'm talking about.

No, I mean, I did. It's like, whatever, you know. There are, from what I've been told, real belts and sympathy belts. Mine was a sympathy belt. I didn't say that. I might have heard a lot of other people say that. No, I'm just fucked up. I figured they just felt bad for me.

Yeah. I felt terrible because I couldn't roll. Like, I actually wanted to do the Iron Man. But you'll still get to do one. I mean, the worst thing that could have happened was you go in and you do roll you further injure your shoulder. Exactly. And then you get to take a nice 12 to 18 months off while it gets surgically repaired.

And nobody, nobody wants that. So, yeah. No, it's definitely a smart thing to do. But I just. Yeah. Was, was, you feel like you have a mastery of jiu jihitsu now that you're one belt away from

black belt? No. I feel like, I don't know. I mean, I feel like I, not that I know less, but I just know that the gap is so large now.

What do you know? gap. Just the gap of what I don't know. But what's it called Dunning Kruger? Yes. Like I realized that I'm in, you know, when you first start off, you're like, okay, I think I'm getting the hang of this. And then the further you get along, the more you realize how much you don't know. I've realized my life is the Dunning Krueger effect. Yeah. I mean, overconfidence. And then what is it called the peak of confidence? What does Evan say? Confidently incorrect. Yeah. Yeah. But that, yeah. that's how I feel about jujitsu currently.

I still love it, but I'm just like, man, there's so much to know. Yeah. What else? So you applied for and got accepted to your program? Yes, not PT specifically, but just for college, which really wasn't that they accept everybody. So it's like not. Huh? Well, because the PT program is separate.

And I still have to do my undergrad before I do that. Does that mean your bachelor's? Yeah. Okay. I went to about zero seconds to college. So. Yeah. I mean, same here besides community college, which I don't really count.

So you'll have to go, you're going to go to MSU's and Bozeman. U.M. U.M. Yep. Which one's the Bobcats? I should know this. Bozeman. Okay.

And then what's UM? Griz. Ooh. Gris is more dangerous than a bobcat, I think. They are. However, in football at least, MSU has been really good and has been beaten the Gris. However, I will say, in rugby, it's not.

That way. You am absolutely demolish the Bobcats. Okay. So you'll have to go get your bachelors. That will take three years, two years? I'm hoping two and a half. But honestly, I'm not too worried about timing. I'm just going to go and do it.

And however long it takes, that's how long it takes. And then your PT program on top of that, you were saying was a doctorate program? I mean, technically, yes, it's a doctor of physical therapy, but it's not like an MD. which would be like eight years. So it's only three years. Maybe you could get an honorary doctorate like many people do.

What's an honorary doctorate? I think they just give you a certificate because you donate a tremendous amount of money or you're a person of stature. Oh, yeah. They're a person of great stature. Right. And I swear I've seen people cruising around

who have received honorary doctorates demanding that they be called by a doctor. Oh, my God. It's like a doctor of what? Bullshit? Essentially, yes. If you ever achieved the title of doctor, I would never say it to your face.

Well, I would make you. How? I don't know. You're weird. I would just not respond unless you called me Dr. Shelton. I would go, like I told you at the Iron Man, it would be more like the hangover when they were sitting in the car. Paging Dr. Faggett.

Yeah. Their word's not mine. Great scene. Yeah. It was a great scene. Oh, I should probably go. You probably should go, Dr. Faggott. That woman played that role.

His life is so funny. She plays that role so well. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And then possibly semester abroad in Japan, but still figuring that out. Okay. This would be during your undergraduate?

This shows you how little I know. You would do that just because you like Japan? Just because I want to do a semester abroad. Yeah. How did you land on Japan? Well, I want to shoot for a Japanese minor. And so if I do it, semester abroad. That covers a bunch of classes.

But hold on. What does that mean? A Japanese, like in history of Japan? What are we talking about? Just like a general. So it covers language, history and culture. Okay. And so I was like, man, I mean, if I'm going to school. Are you going to learn Japanese? Yeah. I mean, those are the classes. And so, I'm definitely going to take the classes. Whether or not I learn anything will be a different different conversation. But I can count to 10 in Japanese. It's not a big deal. We don't have to celebrate it. I can only get to three. You stop it's on? Yeah.

Shigo is the next two, four or five. Wow. There you go. Cool. I'll get there. I have a lot of really, I don't know if you know this. Wait, Hashi is eight. Hichi, Hichin Niz, Hachich, Hachish, Hachio.

Yeah, Kudu. Yeah. Because of octopuses. I think Hachy. First off, first off, it's not octopuses. It's octopi. Actually, I don't think that's true. Does it matter?

No, it sounds. First off, first off, if you want to say the word octopuses in this room, you go ahead. I don't think I did. I said octopus singular. I did. How much do you want to bet? I will send you the clip. Oh, here, okay, here's why you thought I said it because I said octopus is hachi. And so it sounded like I said octopuses. Because that's what you said. No, that's not what I said. Octopus. Space. What's plural of octopus? Octopus is. What's plural of moose? It's not meas, unfortunately.

I think it's meesies. Yeah. All right, but, okay, I have one bad news. Oh, yeah. We got off. We got off. Okay, well, hold on. I asked for some goddamn uplifting information. I do.

Okay. I do. Except we have to start off with the cough syrup. And then. We do? Yes. Okay. Because then the rest will be fun.

I am prepared. Okay. What do you have? All right. Department of Homeland Security has been revealed to analyze Americans' financial data. Though rather than executing immediate federal arrest, certain unions have used information to flake citizens. Pull this up so everybody can see it. ...trial traffic stops by local law enforcement.

Pull this up here. First off, how shocked are you that the Department of Homeland Security has revealed that they analyze American's financial? Not shocked at all. Which is a problem, by the way. It's an issue. It doesn't surprise me. Okay. DHS has been revealed.

to analyze America. Okay, but how? Hold on. Though rather than executing media federalists, certain units have used information for like this, pretextual traffic sauce. Okay. Predictive policing. Oh, man. Yeah, isn't that? Have you seen, okay, there's a dumb question.

No, I haven't. I know exactly what you're talking. Minority report? Yes. Okay. How have you not, you know about it, but you haven't seen it? What do you don't do with your time, other than fish for trouser trout, which we discussed last time? Jesus. I don't, I just don't watch movies. Any? I mean, occasionally. And when you watch the dog slash plural now because beans.

Ooh, beans, yeah. He's awesome, by the way. Yeah. He is cool. I like beans. Yeah. He has a personality. He's been going after Hobby.

Hobby is uncertain as to whether or not he likes him. That's so awesome, actually. Now I pick up Hobby now and it's like, are you a great day? And how did you get so large? Yes. Oh my. He's like a champion wean. What the fuck is I talking about?

Minority report. Yeah, but when you wean sit for us, Primes on. Like, I can see that you've watched stuff. So you have time. Watch like King of the Hill or... Is that a cartoon? Yeah.

I don't want to talk to you for the next few minutes. King of the Hill is amazing. Stop it. Okay. You're missing out. Predictive policing within the U.S. Border Patrol. Operating in sectors like Spokane, Washington, and Laredo, Texas. This program reviews the financial habits, spending patterns and travel routes of U.S.

citizens. Okay, how, though? Keyword transaction filter. A House Judiciary Committee report revealed that federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and Treasury Department's FNCENC, which I'm going to assume means financial center, previously collaborated with major banks. God damn it, and that's exactly how they do it. This is the problem with having third parties aggregating personal information. There's no Fourth Amendment protection in this shit because they just go out and they buy it. They use keyword filters to flag transaction terms like,

MAGA or Trump. First off, I haven't done a tremendous amount of banking in my life, but I am in the banking that I do participate in. It's usually transferring money from one place to another. Maybe there's a bank of MAGA. I don't know how crazy these people are, but where is that word showing up? Or Trump. As well as purchases of religious tax firearms or goods from other outdoor relations, at least they are spreading the net widely of intrusion on our privacy. Yes. Yeah, I mean, nobody's exempt from this.

Oh, DHS units like Homeland Security Investigations have previously faced legal pushback for using administrative subpoenas to illegally sweep up millions of bulk financial records for money. Oh, from money transfer services like Western Union. Oh, man. Data broker circumvention. Agencies like Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement frequently, purchase commercial data. That's exactly what I'm talking about, such as credit reports, utility bills and location data from private data brokers. This allows the government to bypass traditional Fourth Amendment warrant requirements to track individuals.

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We are. That's what I'm saying. If you had to steal me on the other side of this and say, no, we're still good and we're not in a surveillance state, what would you point at? Cell phone records, forget about it. Tracking you via cell phone,

you've already pulled up how, you know, Wi-Fi routers can almost at this point, you know, it's, we'll call it a radar or sonar. financial data, social media data, again, aggregated by third parties that are purchased by investigatory agencies, circumventing the Fourth Amendment rights, vehicle data for sure. I don't know how I would steal me in the other side and say that we are not in a surveillance state. Have you heard of, let's see, turnkey totalitarianism? No.

So like the definition is basically, we have all the separate pillars in place for a complete surveillance state. All that needs to happen is for one person or one entity to come in and connect everything, turn the key. And then it's there. We have a complete surveillance state. And right now, fortunately, like, a lot of these are still disconnected and disjointed. Are they really? Officially, yes.

But what happens when somebody comes in and says, okay, we're going to aggregate all of this data from every single point where a data point can be captured on somebody. And now everything you do is monitored. I mean, what opportunity does a civilian have in this type of ecosystem? Are you going to go back to carrier pigeons? You're going to go back to the Stone Age? I mean, what do you do? I mean, you would essentially have to live in the woods. And then even that is questionable because of how good satellite.

imagery is. Yeah, but satellite imagery is generally just pictures. You've watched a few too many movies. You're not really tracking people moving by satellites. Right. But even still, like you cannot have complete privacy. What if you live in a cave? Cave could work. You still have to come out of the cave eventually. Says who? I don't know. It's called DoorDash, dude. Right? Stay in that cave forever. But I guess my point... Instacart your toilet paper. I guess my point is like, what can you do for complete privacy. Like I don't see there are a lot of options left. Nobody's going to have a problem with these systems and until it is weaponized against their particular, one of their particular

core beliefs. And would you call it turn key totalitarianism? I believe that's the, if that switch is thrown, I don't know how you ever get that turned off. Well, no. And I mean, like the government is not a any government. I'm not just saying the American government. Once they have like a privilege or a power, they're not going to give it back. Why don't people seem to care about this? Because I believe it's because it doesn't affect their daily life. Is this one of the arguments or reasonings that people will use for digital currencies that are outside of banks? Like other than fiat currencies because.

Oh, yes. I mean, I know enough about Bitcoin to understand that the transactions are there, but they're like, they're just millions upon millions upon millions of, you know, and what do they call it, the ledger? I have no clue about, I mean, I know. Yeah. I know the word, of course, is escaping me in this moment, but the blockchain. All the transactions stay in the blockchain. You'd have to, and I'm sure, I'm sure there are plenty of government agencies and entities or third part, sorry, not the agencies or entities, the third party brokers who have the ability to offer that service as well. But I don't know, maybe that's one of the main arguments for people who want to have a currency that occurs outside of the natural banking system.

Yeah. I mean, I don't know like anything about economics or Bitcoin or whatever, but I feel like that could be a good idea, but also, I don't know. I just don't know that if you can fully replace the trust that people have in fiat currency. And like, I really don't think governments would ever go for it because that's what essentially keeps the government out. One of the main things that the governments would say is we don't like it because we can't regulate it to the degree or look into it like this. Yeah. I don't know. Which is why, which is the argument for it. I mean, I'm not a fan. No, it's, and that's the technical definition of turnkey. Turnkey totalitarianism is a political or technical and technological state in which an all-encompassing infrastructure for mass surveillance data collection and behavioral control is fully built, waiting only for a leader to turn the key and activate it. Isn't that a pretty good definition of what we've got going on right now?

Yeah. And again, like we've said it before, but we built this ourselves. Like we basically just built our own prison. Yeah. And we're just waiting for somebody to lock it. Well, in the core concepts, the bottom one, shift in power. Privacy advocates argue that once the infrastructure is operational, any future government or administration instantly inherits total power to suppress dissent,

regardless of political party. Isn't that a little scary? Yeah. Yeah, that's incredibly scary. I don't know why we're okay with this. Well, like I said, I think it's a large part is because it's not affecting our daily lives. But nothing is affecting your daily life until it is, you know? Exactly.

Like that's, it's like the, what the frog in the boiling pot analogy where you don't know this. Where are we going with this? Oh, as it increases by one degree of temperature. You don't notice. It's getting hot until you're dead. Really? I mean, has anybody really asked the frog about that?

No, maybe. You know? How did we get to, do we give them a one to ten scale to bubble? Diagram fill in, you know? Chance. Yeah. But yeah.

Yeah. I mean, what's your generation going to do to fix this, Michael? I mean, I don't even know. Like, unfortunately, or fortunately maybe, you would need basically a government, some sort of authoritative figure to say, this is enough, here's a roadblock for all of this. And it's near impossible to take down. But nobody seems to be even interested in, I think one, because we have so many old people in our government. they just don't understand.

I'm not even joking you. Like they just cannot even fathom the risks. I don't want to pick on anybody, but I'm going to have you look something up. Yeah. So Mitch McConnell. I know exactly what video you're talking. Please find it.

And then I want somebody in the comments to steal man the argument for me as to why the condition that he is in is fitting for somebody serving in office. And I'm not trying to be, a dick. I actually feel horrible for somebody. Clearly. It's terrible. Clearly this man is going through it. What it is could be up for debate, not a doctor in case people didn't know. You're talking about the one where he's in the car, right? Recently, I believe this was yesterday. It was, I'm trying to find

it like, and basically the person was trying to yell and like give me, you know, give us a thumbs up. Now, an argument could be that he didn't hear this or the audio was added afterwards. You know what I mean? Yeah. I'll throw that out there. Yep. Not allowed to record them as a senator looks increasingly frail with a major dark spot on his hand. That's the way it's. This is a close-up of a TMZ video showing the McConnell getting in the vehicle essentially motionless and not really responding to folks inside the vehicle.

He was then led to the United States Senate where he was able to vote. According to Andrew Desiderio from Punchball, he gave remarks briefly outside of the Senate Gallagher. reporters were prohibited from recording those remarks, but those that he looked increasingly frail, and his speech was slowed. Reporters were prohibited from recording the remarks of a democratically elected senator. It's insane.

I'm trying to find the original video. I don't know if I'm going to be able to. Again, I mean, it's basically him, and somebody's yelling at him, hey, show us a thumbs up. And again, I don't know if that audio was added afterwards. But, I mean, it's like he doesn't even register something, happening. No. And honestly, you don't even need to see this video. There's plenty of videos of him

vapor locking in public, which you don't need to pull up. People can start, because I'm not trying to shit on the guy. I look at that and I see the horrible effects of age. There's coming for all of us. Maybe not to that degree. But, okay, let's just say my man probably doesn't have a full lap around the track left. Yeah. What are we doing? Yeah. It's, Go enjoy whatever it is you have left. We don't have anybody else who we could empower or vote into, like maybe just a touch younger with a few less medical conditions. Yeah. Fuck.

Well, yeah. And like, we brought Mitch McConnell before. And like, again, it's not because we're trying to pick on Mitch McConnell. But it's just very representative of how much of a problem having people this old running our country is. How old is Mitch McConnell? Let's guess. Let me look. Well, before you Google it, let's guess.

I'm going to say 91. What? 75. 84. It was a pretty good average, actually. Technically, you won, but you went over, so you lost. True. Okay.

What do you have happy wise from the internet? Okay. Yeah, let's... Because we can spiral on this. Okay. So, this isn't... It's funny. It's not, like, happy.

I wouldn't say... We shall... We shall be the... I was joyful while watching this. Okay. Okay. Have you heard of high rocks? Oh yeah.

And the lady who made national, actually global news. Oh, my God. Clean up on aisle fucking two. Do you want me to show this? Go for it. So you're welcome, everyone. I'm just going to play this real quick. First off, do you think she woke up that morning thinking she's, this is global news.

Yeah. Oh, everybody knows about this. Of all the things that I don't want to make global news for, shitting my pants with cameras in every possible angle is pretty high on the list. Yeah. Okay. All right. Ready?

I mean, not really. Hirox world record holder Joanna Wechick was banned after losing canal for Valiz during a race. It happened during a high rocks competition in Beijing. Partway through the race, Joanna suddenly developed serious stomach problem. Diarrhea was seen running down. But she did not stop. She kept going through the burpees, rowing, and the other shared stations. And that's where the problem started.

Because the athletes behind her still had to use the same course and equipment. Enough. Enough. Oh. We're talking about competitive exercise, right? Yes. It's basically, it seems like exactly like CrossFit. I don't know what the difference is.

Okay. I want people to live the most fulfilling and enriched life possible. you to be at the top of the pyramid of whatever it is that you want to do. Climb your way to the top. But if you get to the top and the picture of you is with your own shit running down the back of your legs, I, I'm not here to tell people how to party. Some people might be into that. You know, I'm sure there's an urban dictionary term for people who are into that.

Yeah, I'm sure. But that's real gross. Yeah. What the person brought up that it was a relay race and that other people got to travel through, shall we call the debris that was left behind? That's the part that would because like if you were on your own, nobody had like this is definitely less bad. I still would say this is pretty gross. When was the last time you shit your pants? I was probably seven or eight maybe.

Really? I think I did like two weeks ago. Yeah. Yeah, no, I almost did in Japan, actually. You've got to be careful with a local fare. I know. I don't even know. I didn't even eat anything crazy.

Did I tell you the story about my dad? Oh, at the lakehouse? Yeah. Yeah, you did. That's pretty awesome. Would it have been awesome if it was at your lake house? No, but just imagining the scenario. Yeah.

So my dad will hate that I'm telling this story. So here we go. first off, this was retold to me by my sister. I was left out of the communication chain. My dad went to our house to, I believe, pick up fishing equipment. Now, over the 4th of July, we had the Chicago crew out with us. And my dad regaled them with about a 30-minute retelling of this story. And he claims that the reason that he, for in the blink of an eye, felt nothing coming.

And then all of a sudden shit running down the way he described it, down my legs and into my socks. It filled my socks is what he said. He said is because, well, I had two hot chocolates that day. Hey, I mean, go get you. Yeah. So I don't know where he was standing on our property at that point in time. I would like to know so I could get buckets of bleach and a flamethrower and maybe some napalm to clean that up. But he was not alone.

He stripped down butt naked and had somebody with our outside garden hose, treat him like a dog. and just every crack in crevice with very, very cold well water. Yeah. Yeah. And then I think he put those clothes back on because I don't think he drove home naked. Yeah. I mean, why would you bring a change of clothes just out your everyday ordinary life? You know.

So that's the text I got from my sister. Much shorter than that. Yeah. It was essentially, hey, did you know that dad shit his pants at your house? Which there are a lot of odd text messages I've got in my life. That's top 10 as a subject matters that I wasn't expecting. So it happens. But I don't know why you would keep going.

Can you Google what they, what's the prize for winning high rocks? If it's a million dollars, go shit. your pants. Oh yeah. I would continue. Yeah. I mean, 40,000, not nothing. There's a large delta between $40,000 and $1 million. Yeah, but for some people, $40,000 is life-changing money. 40,000 is a lot of money. I will give you $4,000 if you intentionally shit your pants and let me put it all over the internet of you just standing there. No. okay why not because it's not fucking worth it yeah no no no no not for $4,000 okay but for 40 I don't even 40 I'd be like uh live your life however you want to that is like I said of all

the reasons why somebody I mean they are talking about this this has been now translated into a variety of foreign languages on foreign news services there's a lot of things you could be known for unfortunately is that the way one because the high rocks aspect of this will be left out of it. Maybe people can associate the two, but that's not the subject matter of what people are discussing. Yeah. Mm-mm-mm-mm. So anyways.

I wonder what direction the wind was blowing. I actually, would it be better if it was indoors? No, I think outdoors would be better. No, it would be better as if it didn't happen. True. Okay. I am glad you think this falls into the positive news category. What else do you have for us today?

That sucks. Okay, so this, I think this is pretty positive. Okay, just a quick one. Apple has a way, if you take a picture with their phone, it has a way to prove that it's not AI, basically. Oh, interesting. Yeah. Apple created a feature called Apple reference image on the iPhone 18 Pro to prove a photo is real

and untampered by artificial intelligence. Okay, how does this work? Pixel level signing. When you shoot in the new opt-in reference mode, see, I'm already not liking this because I feel like this is just another way for them to get... So we had Bill Thompson on yesterday.

That episode won't be out for a long time. Bill is very... I found the conversation where we were talking about AI. What did he call it? It was original output versus original thought. What was the term that he used, though?

It wasn't original. I don't know. Do you listen to... anything that happens on these episodes. I look over there in your fucking drawing pictures, which I'm fine with, by the way. I do. No, I do listen. Yeah. So, novel thought and novel output. Okay. AI, artificial general intelligence, remember he was talking about, it would have novel thought. The novel outputs that it's putting out are just based off of the reference data that it has, right? And maybe it's

looking at it or comparing things. You don't remember any of this, do you? No. I remember him hearing, I remember hearing him say those words, but I, what were you doing at the time? I don't know, honestly. I mean, maybe looking at this, but not paying attention, maybe drawing. Because sometimes I do zone out, but I'm still switching. Are you? Yes. What exactly do I pay you to do? Oh, that's a really good question. Yeah, I mean, I could stuff a scarecrow over there that would remember more of this conversation. We literally had less than 24 hours ago.

Well, and also, I'm just so tired of hearing about AI. I think I just kind of zoned it up. Yeah, but if you were listening yesterday, he was explaining, at least in his thought process, on why all the sudden there's this uproar and upheaval about AGI being on the precipice, and it has nothing to do with it actually being on the precipice. It's because, well, actually, I do remember that part.

It's because, or I remember the part where he was talking about the tech CEO's urging the slowdown, you know? Why? Because, not because something crazy is going to happen, but because nobody's basically buying AI. And so they need a reason to say, oh, this is why we're not doing well. Why do I pay you? That's it. That's what he said.

It is not. It's not that nobody's buying AI. It's not exactly what he said. It's not even close to what he said. It's that they're not like actually doing as well as they, that they're representing. Pick and choose your narrative. First, it was people are not buying AI. Now it's not doing as well.

That's like almost the same thing. Anyways, sorry, we can keep going. You disgust me. No, his theory being that they had been promising artificial general intelligence and it's been right on the edge on the cusp for going on somewhere between five to ten years. And the reality is we're nowhere near that close, but they're getting a tremendous amount of pressure from their investors. And rather than admit that we're way farther away than we are, the easier move is to get the government involved

to artificially slow it down. And then you could sit there and, you know, become suckling off the government's tit for the next 10, 20 years. And also you can point to your investors and say, well, what choice do we have? We were forced to slow down. In that conversation, though, he was talking about current AI, which we have,

which will give you a novel output. But it's based off of the data set that it's trained upon. And his example was talking about whether or not Newton actually saw an Apple fall, right? And extrapolated the theory of gravity associated with that and Einstein's E equals MC Squares and the combination of those two things. A or AI, the current model that we have, will reference those because it's in its data set. But absent those being in the data set, it would never come up with those because that's a novel thought. Yeah. Right.

So that's the difference between, again, I'm repeating. shit that I barely understand at a surface level. The novel outputs that we're getting right now is the level of AG or AI that we're at, right? It's with the LLMs and stuff like that. True artificial general intelligence would give you a novel thought, which it's just not capable of doing. Right.

So this is, the reason I'm talking about this is when you, you know, this is the warning of people managing their entire life on AI systems. Those companies that we are paying to use their services, are actually training their data sets based off of our information. So the more that is given to them via this opt-in, right? You're teaching somebody's model somewhere.

So I don't think that this is, I believe this is just marking a photo. And then saying this is a real authentic photo. And maybe they are using it to train an AI model. I don't know. But the good news is, I thought about this was now you have a way to tell if a photo has been tampered with with AI. Yeah, until a fucking company creates a program that is the next app that's going to come in the

app store directly underneath this one will be like, it'll be the Apple reference image defeat app. Yeah, I mean, maybe, but sorry, I just thought this was good news. That's all I was saying. But instead, what did we find that you don't pay attention at your job? And the likelihood of you becoming a doctor is really low. Is this going to be your bedside manner? Somebody's going to sit there for 20 minutes and talk to you about what's bothering them.

And you'll look at them and be like, I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention. Yeah, probably. Yeah. Like you said, your ankle hurt. Like, no, Doc. It's not my ankle. It's my neck. Well, that may be the case.

Okay. You want another one? You're due for a performance review. Let me see what that guy. You see what I'm saying though? Anytime there's an opt-in or an upload somewhere, given this, and here's the thing. We were talking about the surveillance state that we live in. Let's use Instagram.

If you don't think that your Instagram photos are being uploaded, cashed, and sold to these third-party aggregators. Oh, yeah. That's what I'm saying. So when it's free, you're the commodity. So people love Instagram. And I like Instagram too. It's pictures. It's cool.

It's a way to, you know, you can either show your real life or you can show the filtered portion of your life if you wanted to, whatever you want to do. But it's not consequence free. It's being sold somewhere. It's teaching a model somewhere. And I just don't think that should ever be forgotten. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. I feel like this isn't free, though, because you're still paying for the phone.

And this is just a feature in what you paid for. that you paid for the phone yeah so what's your point did you order a new one by the way a new phone yeah they just came out this is didn't she use it's iPhone 18 pro my mine's still fine which one are you rocking you like my dad the 10 i don't know 17 maybe 16 what did you think of the the folding one oh i i think it's a terrible terrible idea what is the purpose of a folding phone I don't know, but I feel like in a year, the screen's going to be all worn out from where you've been folding it. I think they are actually a little bit on the nose about that and saying, from what I've never seen one in person. And one of the videos showed up in YouTube where a guy was doing a review.

And I'm like, okay, what do you think? They say right from the beginning, you can see the seam. It looks better than a lot of the other phones. So I don't think it's ever supposed to be totally invisible. But from my understanding, 100%, I mean, the constant opening and closing, that's just what happens. Well, and then the other thing, too, is like, if you get anything caught in that, like, sand, dirt and you close it. I hadn't thought about that. I mean, your screen is like, it's just going to get so beat up.

I just don't think it's, I don't know. Tennessee, I would never get one. Is it just a novelty? It seems like just a novelty. Like, I don't know if they're, I don't know. I've never seen anybody use one even, actually, now that I think about it. I know people who have the, well, Android versions of foldable phones. I don't see them that often opening them up to utilize the larger screen.

I actually was just about to make up a stat. At least when I'm watching them, maybe occasionally it happens, but it seems like the vast majority of the time they're doing it on the closed screen. Right. Or whatever is presented. The one that makes it like just a normal smartphone. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know. I personally would never get one, but. Ever? No. What have they sent you? Like, Michael, we need you to test this out. I thought you might like it because it's compatible with the Apple pencil and you could draw. Oh, yeah, maybe.

I've never actually tried drawing, like, digitally. Do you have an iPad? No. How come? I just don't really need one. If you want to try, maybe it could help with your art. I know you like that. I'll get you one for Christmas if you want.

Okay. I mean, I'm not going to say no to that for sure. Yeah. And then right in front of you, give it to somebody else. You would fucking pay attention at their job, a piece of shit. Thank you. Re-gift. Re-gift, yes.

Okay. Give it to Julia, who would use it as like a frying pan. Okay. Oh, have you seen John the Hill's interview about the Jiu-Jitsu? I've seen people talking about his interview, fire away. Yeah. Okay. It's funny.

Yeah, I think it's funny. But let me ask you something. Yeah. If we got into it, I would fuck you are. Hit Pauso. Yeah. That part's demonstrably true.

That's Jason Bateman, right? No clue. Okay. I'm pretty sure he has no clue how to fight at all. Yeah. And even a two-stripe white belt would probably mess up somebody who doesn't know how to fight at all. So maybe that part might be true, but let's keep going. Yeah.

And that's the best part. My favorite thing is to run. Oh, Jonah Hill. That guy from Super Bowl. So famous Hollywood actor. Okay. Then this guy starts talking. That's basically the whole thing.

So he said, I'm not kidding you. Try it. If you see me, try it. Dude, bring it. Who's got it? Yeah. That's the part I think that work. It's a little...

What belt is he in Jiu-Zitsu? I don't know. Let me see. And can we also just be honest, regardless of what your belt is in Jiu-Zitsu and your ability to fight are two very different things? Yes. It's not magic.

At a grappling range, if you practice Jiu-Soo or any other grappling art to include wrestling, judo, I don't know what else would be considered grappling, but whatever. Yeah. You are going to annihilate people. people who don't train in that. Yes. But if you run up against a golden gloves boxer, you're going to wake up in the ambulance

with your black belt tied around your arm and face because they're both broken because you got your ass handed to you or a, what's the one where you can kick and punch kickboxing? Oh, that would be a good way to describe that sport. Yeah, you're, that's not going to be going good. White belt, probably with a few stripes. Stop it. You stop it right now. He is.

Remember when we were talking about the Dunning Kruger curve? Yes. Yes, I do. Yes, I do. I just don't know if it's a good idea ever to throw out there. I would fucking annihilate you, dude. I'm not kidding you. Try it.

If you see me, try it, dude. Bring it. Who's got it? Let me tell you, sir, a lot of people have got it. A lot more than you have got it. I don't know. Maybe in your mind you get messed up for a living you pretend to be other things. and other people. Maybe that's how he feels, but the reality check on that one is going to sting.

Yeah. Well, I also feel like it might be kind of like a white belt thing of like, oh, I know some stuff now. Does he have a submission email for people who would be interested in trying it? Because I would like to throw my name in the hat. Yeah, I don't think so. But that's the thing. is like even if you come across somebody who is 6, 3, 250 athletic, that's going to be a handful, no matter what belt you are. Correct. Like, you know, I don't know. I mean, it's like you'll have a better chance for sure if you're trained,

but it's still going to suck. If you're in grappling range. Yeah. And you don't get knocked unconscious by taking it to the ground somehow. Yeah, exactly. The people I know who are the most, most capable of violence don't speak like that. The people that I know who are the least capable of violence do.

And I'm not judging anyone, but I think there's a correlation there. Yeah, I would agree. I mean, I don't know. I definitely had more. It's so funny. When I like first started training, I had more confidence than I do now in my, oh, I'd fuck somebody else. Hence the Dunning Krueger effect.

The Dunning Krueger, yes. You also know now that it hurts. And even winning a fight, you could still get sued. Yes. You could get injured. Yes. You could crack your own head on the concrete. You can kill, you know, get killed by accident.

None of those things are worth it. No. No. In my opinion, not worth. Just walk away. Just walk away. All right. Yeah.

Jonah Hill, you live your life however you want to, man. And he might have been getting caught up in the moment here. Like, I get that. Yeah. But, yeah, there's a lot more people out there. The train buddy in the modern era. So be cautious what one. wishes for. Especially, yeah, now tons of people train. And it's like you don't want to roll up on

somebody that's been training MMA for 10 years. Take a look at people's ears. Yeah, it's usually pretty good indication. Yeah, don't, don't get in a fight with a dude with cauliflower here. As a general rule. It's going to be a ride. Yeah. Or somebody from a stand. Yeah. What else you got? Let's see here. Okay, this one is really funny. We, sort of touched on this yesterday. Today's episode is brought to you by AG1. There is no right time for better health. There's just now.

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Back to the show. Yeah, God, I love this. Fly from DFW to Newark, New Jersey. Have a look. In the pubs of video, you see at least two people reported to be passengers having to restrain another passenger. Now, that's when one person is seen pulling and tearing strips of duct tape. Still photos show a man wrapped in duct tape from his head all the way down to his chest.

His hands are also... Hell yeah. There are not many things that I dislike about this photo. It is so funny. People get weird on airplanes. Yeah, people do. I don't know if it's, maybe it's an anxiety thing. I feel like it is.

The confined space. Yeah. flying through space at time at hundreds of miles of hour, tens of thousands of feet up in the year. Not being able to get off until you're done. Yeah. But that's kind of the same as cars and trains and other things, you know? True.

But you have control in the car. If you're a passenger. True. You know? But you're on the ground. I feel like it's just a combination of all, everything. Sometimes people get a little boozy. True.

The altitude affects him a little bit differently. My understanding was that this individual was in a heated, multi-hour conversation. I won't say debate, but conversation with their seatmate on some type of religious topic. And then, I don't know why, and perhaps everything I just said is untrue.

Regardless, at some point, the Rubicon was crossed, and he lost his mind. I did read the reason his head, forehead is expertly and adequately taped. I mean, we're talking, we have not only supporting tape here, but as somebody

who's had their head taped before completely It's called a happy hat where your hands are taped together, then they're taped to your head as a very young, new guy. Sounds fine. Let me tell you, the tape doesn't come off clean at all. It's going to sting. You can, you know, rip it off on the one, two, three, rip. It hurts.

It looks like we have, I'm going to guess we have some eyebrow involvement in there as well, too. Sensitive area. Picture is just so funny. It's great. Don't do crazy things on. on a plane. Oh, so the reason his head is taped, he was trying to bite people. They had, they had taped his, like, shoulders and down. And then he still had some fight in him. So he was trying to bite people, which by the way is super dirty. And not like, not like, hey, that's cheating.

I'm talking at a, at a biological level. It's gross. Yeah. Well, I don't remember the exact, I think you can get sepsis from that, right? You're the one who's going to be a doctor, not me. Why would you assume that I know the answer to that? I don't know, but I've heard that you I feel like you can get a lot of gross things by being bit, especially if it breaks the skin. So we got some flex ties on there. Does not surprise me that airlines now have those. Even those look like really weird fabric ones. I don't know.

Just get some zip ties from your hardware story. It can work just as well. The duct tape, super huge fan. Yeah. Well deserved, it seems. That would be a challenging environment to grapple. I was thinking that when this like was going around. like you have no space.

You have no space. Getting the person into the chair would be tough. Yeah. Having him sit still to put the tape on would be also difficult. Personally, I would have put him one row forward so there was more space behind the chair so you could have just gone wrapped and wrapped

and wrapped and wrapped and wrapped and wrapped. That would be completely mummified. I would leave him two nostril holes in a mouthful. You know? Yeah. And it'll be rude. No, you got to make sure he lives at least. I wonder what charges that person will get.

I feel like they're federal at that level. Oh, on the plane, I bet they are. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's crazy. I mean, almost certainly a flight ban, I would imagine. Don't do crazy stuff on airplanes. Yeah, it's just.

Also, if what I heard is true, and they chatted for two, I'll use the term chatted. Maybe it was heated from the very beginning. But if it took up to two hours to escalate to this level, if you are somebody, let's say you were the seatmate or the person that this individual was talking to, and you can feel the temperature rising, disengage. You know, and for clarity, maybe this person is just bad shit crazy and they just flipped. Right. You know, but at the same time, escalating physical and verbal disturbance by a first class passenger.

What does first class even mean anymore? It's, you know. Disappointing. It began shouting racial and homophobic. slurs. That's a really good way to get everybody's attention on the aircraft, followed by attacking flight staff and placing his hands around the neck of a traveler sitting next to him. First off, you're going to get your ass whipped by every, I mean, I'm sorry. Everybody on the plane post 9-11, this somebody getting out of control with people just sitting in their seats and allowing

that to happen. No, no, no, no, no. No, those days are gone. Yeah. reported that began hurling vulgarities use a racial slur against a flight attendant and physically assaulted the passenger seated next him by putting his hands around

wow yeah when the flight attendant and other passengers attempted to intervene Linda began hitting people and thrashing around okay cool

retired police officer stepped in helped the crew initially used zip ties to secure his wrist excellent duct tape application of course flight attendants

provided the duct tape Excellent. Dverted to Baltimore where law enforcement and the FBI met the aircraft. Yeah. Have fun with that, buddy.

Well, also, and this is like at this point, the least of his worries, but everybody on the plane now hates you. And it's like, are you kidding me?

We have to be diverted because you... Yeah, he doesn't care about that. No, I know he doesn't. That's why I said the least of his worries. Yeah. It's just like,

are you joking, dude? This probably added four or five hours onto their trip for... Oh, it could get way worse than that. that the crew could have to sit there long enough that they time out on their duty day they'd have to get another you know what I mean like maybe it's not a hub for that airline so they have to get a

crew like this get cascade downhill pretty quickly to a multiple day affair would you've hopped in there yeah I mean I like to say yes I would and I like this you know it seems like I would do that but I actually have never been in that situation so I don't know but I have a pretty good feeling that I would would you take your glasses off first oh I probably wouldn't think about it actually in the moment. Such a child. I know. You're such a child.

You know nothing about the world. How can you not think about those things? I just, honestly, I forget that I'm wearing them all the time. They just become part of my peripheral vision. Okay. Yeah. When the situation dictates, man, you need to have situational awareness. I think if I lose my glasses in that scenario, I'll be okay.

I am not worried about you losing your glasses. Do you know what happens if you get elbowed on bridge of your nose with your glasses on? Yeah, probably not good things. You know, like a child. Well, you know, I've never... How have you made it this far in life? Luck.

That's probably the truest thing you settled. What else you got? How long we've been going? 50 minutes. All right. We get time for one more. Let's see here. Your problem would be is if you took your glasses off in the back of the aircraft,

do you get in a fight with somebody who's? who wasn't involved. You double-egged a flight attendant. I'm here to help, calm down. Blind as a bat. Oh, man. Man, which one do I want to end it on? How many do you have?

I have three, I think. All right. Four. Actually, it's your choice. This is probably the goodest, the best news. All right. Oh, interesting. 163 missing kids, including dozens in Miami,

have found during Operation Statewide Shield. What is this? Scroll down. I don't know. Is Sandra Bullock involved in this somehow? What the hell is going on here? Sure, why she's... Yeah, who cares about that?

No, it's a completely off topic. Get her off this screen. Hit the X. She's fine. Shut up, Sandra. Yeah. Okay. 163 missing children, including dozens in the Miami area,

were found in what Ford official called one of the largest child recovery operations in American history. Okay. Operation Statewide Shield took place from August 17th to 21st, and efforts focused on identifying, locating, and recovering this in children under the age of 18. Children ranged in age from two months to 17 years old. Whoa. Many had experienced various levels of abuse, neglect, exploitation, or exposure to other criminal activity.

46 in the Tampa Bay region. 41 in Miami, 32 in Jacksonville. 21 in Orlando, 12 in Fort Myers, eight in Pensacola, and three are in the Tallahassee region. Okay, scroll down here. How did they... What's going on? Keep going. the news, the new release did not provide information about possible arrests.

Keep going down. God, what site are you on? This is like the local news site. All right. Here's what sucks. Well, it doesn't suck. And maybe they shouldn't talk about this. I want to know how they got onto this and why aren't we doing this every single day.

Right. Yeah. I mean, especially with our brand new flock cameras, it seems like it's pretty easy to track people nowadays. Maybe. The flock cameras have to be able to see you. You might be able to, as an example, a two-month-old, which, by the way, anybody trafficking a two-month-old, I got a wood chipper with your name on it.

Yeah, that penalty. You would more unlikely have to focus on the person that is trafficking that person. That's what I mean. You know what I mean? Yeah, that's why I mean. You'd have to be able to identify upstream a little bit, those who are directly involved. And again, yes.

That would be a purpose for the flock cameras that I think everybody would get behind. Stop child exploitation. It's still, it's not perfect as nothing is. There are ways that you could avoid surveillance, which I'll leave out of that because I don't want to give anybody ideas. But Florida isn't the only state having this issue. I'd say things like this are happening in all 50. I would love to see a way where we could actually make a meaningful impact on that.

Yeah. It just seems like it's not like a huge issue for a lot of... Yeah, until it's your kid. No, no, that's what I'm saying. It seems like it's not being taken seriously enough. In a world where we are being bombarded by what seems to be existential threats

from every direction, unless that is directly touching your life or you work in that ecosystem, it doesn't surprise me that a lot of people are not paying attention to exactly that. Yeah. Because they have their own shit

that they're trying to deal with in their own life. Yeah. Which I get, but that doesn't make it any better for these people's lives. No, I agree. I feel like the agencies

whose job it is to resolve these. Well, it's probably an ancillary job set of those agencies. It's a subcategory of responsibilities. Yeah. And if it's a singleary job set of responsibilities. Yeah.

federal. I'm sure the FBI was involved, right? But the FBI does much more than just missing children as well. Yes. So anyways, though, this one was resolved and great news, 163 children. That's pretty pretty substantial, I feel like. I'll take that as a positive upswing for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What do you think? Call it a day, Michael? I think we can call it today. What are you going to do for the weekend? I've got a wedding this weekend. You go to a lot of weddings. This year has been very wedding filled. It's like I think four or five this summer and fallish. Any family members or all just friends? One fan, two family, two friends. Was there another one? There may be another one that I'm forgetting. Maybe it was only four. Maybe it was only four.

Have they been good? Yeah, they've all been great. You've been tearing up the dance for? Of course. Was your brother emceeing any of them? No. Okay. Although he's very good at it. He was. He was working the audience. He was.

Yeah. You weren't paying attention. You were playing Clash of Clans, but... I was playing Pokemon. Whatever. I wouldn't know the difference between the two, to be honest with you. Why would you as an adult play Pokemon? Because it's fun and nostalgic.

I played as a kid a lot. What? Is there an issue with that? To me, yes. Okay. Well, have you played Pokemon? I want you to be a better person. How, okay.

How does playing Pokemon make you a bad person? I feel like the answer is in the question. No, it's not. As a man in their 20s, that's what you're spending your time doing. Sometimes. Yeah. I'm not ashamed of that. It's a fun game.

You should be. Well, I don't know what to tell you. I'm not. And you cannot shame me for it. It won't work. That won't stop me from trying. I know. I'm just saying it won't work.

Be better than Pokemon in your mid-20s. No. I don't know. There's nothing bad with it. Yeah, you could be seen doing it. Well, I obviously don't care about that. There is national news of shitting your pants and then you playing Pokemon. They're separated by...

Local 20-year-old plays Pokemon. Yeah, they're separated by a thin veil. I mean, there's not much difference between one or the other. Yeah, it's their neck and neck. Yeah. So anyways. Is that on your dating profile and Joyce Pokemon? I don't play it that often to be on the stuff.

Don't try to put the cart in the horse back in the barn. All right. It's out and it's galloping. So let's just take her for a spin around the track. Perfect. When do you introduce to a potential suitor that you play Pokemon? Just for clarity, the answer is fucking never. it's it's not even that big of a deal in my life to even bring up unless it gets brought up naturally

I feel like it's one of your core tenants well it's not I don't know what to tell you you're the one who said it was nostalgic it is nostalgic because I played it when I was a child that doesn't mean it's a core tenant of my life you used to wear diapers when you were a child too do you ever put those on nope hmm only nostalgic about some things huh yeah I feel like I feel like nobody is nostalgic like, well, actually, there are people nostalgic about wearing back. Take that one back real quick. Have you seen the predator catcher videos? Yeah.

Yeah. Sometimes listening to you talk, I have faith in the next generation. And then days like today happen. Yeah. Well. And when the world needs change, you'll be playing Pokemon. Yeah. We've just lost all hope.

So it's... Nostalgically. I will be playing nostalgically. Just don't tell anybody that you do and it'll be better. Well, it's the cat's out of the bag on that one. All right. That's all I have for this Friday.