Press Room Purge, Fake Hawking & Our Baby Girl El Jefé

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Fitz, McShane, and Jefe banter about Fitz injuring himself before the show and joking about hiring a “show fluffer,” then pivot into beer talk, reviewing Lucky Envelope Brewing’s Pumpkin Emoji Spiced Cream Stout and Tin Barn Brewing’s 12% “Six by Six” anniversary quad IPA, later adding KCBC’s Zocktoberfest lager and Deschutes’ port barrel-aged Black Butte 38 imperial porter. They shout out listeners, recommend James Graves’ podcast “How to Survive Teaching, The Zombie Apocalypse and Other Natural Disasters,” and rave about the “Dungeon Crawler Carl” audiobook series and narrator Jeff Hays. The show then dives into a critique of “AI doom” narratives, arguing nonprofits like METR and groups tied to effective altruism are industry-linked, donor-funded, and used as a familiar COVID-era playbook to push regulation, shape media coverage, and seek government liability protection; they highlight claims about media outlets being funded through fellowships and discuss a Netflix-adjacent AI documentary trailer as fear-mongering. They react to Paula White’s tithing appeal as tasteless, celebrate Trump banning CNN, MSNBC, and Politico from the White House press environment while airing commentary from Link Lauren, and cover “troop movement” talk including U.S. space weapons and speculation about rivals. Jefe delivers a farm report on Darwin’s frog males incubating eggs in a vocal sac, and they discuss an Australian 2032 Olympic rowing venue planned on a crocodile-filled river. They dismiss ongoing UFO “disclosure” as noise, then highlight a feel-good segment on Neuralink enabling an ALS patient to communicate “I love you,” using it to contrast hopeful tech with propaganda. They also discuss quantum navigation without GPS and question the Stephen Hawking public narrative, suggesting translation/ghostwriting concerns and connecting skepticism to broader distrust in media and science.

Spreaker

Spotify

Apple

Beers

• Fitz

  • Lucky Envelope Brewing Pumpking Emoji Creame Stout

  • Deschutes Brewing Black Butte 38th

• McShane

  • Tin Barn Brewing 6X6

    • Untapped

  • KCBC Zoktoberfest

Call Outs

• Dungeon Crawler Carl Book Series

• Spotify How to Survive Teaching, the Zombie Apocalypse, and Other Natural Disasters

  • Youtube

News

The AI Narrative Continues - This Time with Time Maganzine

• Netflix AI Documentary Just Happened to be Coming Out After Narrative Unleashed

• Joseph Gordon-Leavitt AI Impact Dinner

• Mamdani wants to Regulate AI

• OpenAI Hired Chuck Schumer’s Daughter

• Agent Cloak for AI Anonymity

• METR - Research and Money Analysis

• Effective Alturism, What is it and the Money

• Trailer for the AI Apocolypticoptimsist

  • Who Financed it

  • Who is The Center for Humane Technology (CHT)

  • Razor Post

• Effective Altrusim

  • Breakdown and Information about METR

• Palantier Alex Karp Wants AI Nationalized

• Microsoft Signs Deal to with Teachers Union to Control Oversight for AI Safety

• Hawley Bill

  • Grok Interpretation

• Paid Media! From Tarbell

• Anthropic Opens a Wet Lab in Bay Area

• AI Protest in...San Francisco

• Anthropic Identifies as Profitable

Science

• Quantum Sensor Navigation Used for Flight Instead of GPS

• Neuralink Story About ALS Patient Being Able to Speak Again

• Nature Retracts Paper That NYT Relied on for Climate Scam

• Sanford Creates Miss with Half Human Brain... YAY!

Fuel Shortages

• Remember Joliet

• Venezuelan Crude Oil is Flowing

• No Oil for Eu Says the Saudis!

• Crude Market Exploding

Europe

• EU Wants Canada in it

• UK Bond Market Troubles

US Government

• The White House Spiritual Advisors Wants Christians to Tithe for Israel

• The United States Says What We knew “We Have Space Weapons”

• Defund the Smithsonian

• Fed Banking Data Outage

• Pennsylvania Governor Wants Medical Power Lawmakers Push Back

• Rate Payer Protection in Data Center Development

• Act Blue - Slack Messages

• DOJ Investigates Unregistered Foreign Agents - Influencers?

• US Poverty Rate Lowest on Record Per Census Beaureau

• House Bill on Fraud Passes

• Fed Rate Hikes

  • Decision

  • Kobeissi Review

• Alleged Hacker Finds Evidence of 100K Genocide by IRGC Iran Revolutionary Guard

• H1B Crack Down With American Layoffs as a Factor

• Greatest Community Note in a Long Time - Mike Johnson is a Failure

• Natalie Winters Thread on Soros Backed Profiling of Women

  • Deeper Look

• CNN,MSNBC, and Politico Banned from White House Press Briefings - Because they Suck

  • Link Lauren’s Take

• Friday’s Taking Out the Garbage - Friday Release of f-35 Parts Missing in Hong Kong Politico

We Need More Aliens!!!

• UAP Video

• Ashton Forbes

Stephen Hawking Narrative and Manipulation

• Full video

Troop Movement

• United States

  • Active Space Weapons!

    • The United States Says What We knew “We Have Space Weapons”

  • Base in Poland

  • Greenland is Now a US Staging Ground with Full Access to Military

    • Kobeissi Letter

• Saudi Arabia

  • Saudi Arabia Signs Deal for 48 F-35’s

• Ukraine V Russia

  • Sabotage in Europe - Railway Infrastructure

  • Ukrainian Attack on Syzran Oil

  • Russia Closes German Consulate

Other Stuff

• Public Poopers in NYC!!

• Narrative Boosting on Socials - Tim Cast

• Olympic Rowing Venue Unveiled! Has 500 Crocodiles in It

• Toys R Us is Back - 120 Stores

• John MacEnroe Testifying on Lack of Opportunity for Americans in College Tennis

• Poocrete

• Crab Tries to Shank Man and Dog

• Paramount Leaving California

• Travis Kelce One of Many Fraud Victims - $35M

• Piddington Rejects UK After Town Vote

• Princeton Study on How Voting Doesn’t Work

• New York City Regent on Basic Math and Reading Competence

• Crypto Clarity Act Update