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Back to episode — Episode 2659 CWSA 11/14/24

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question. Let's say you're dealing with an already approved drug that's being used for a different purpose. So it's approved and is safe and the safety profile is excellent. So you know for sure that it works in the lab. You already tested it that it works in animals. And you know for sure because it's an approved drug that's been around forever that it won't hurt you. Now what are your odds that…

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e it. I'm like, okay that didn't happen. No, no, the satirical company. That's why it's a joke because you know it'd be funny if The Onion bought it. So obviously it's not The Onion. And then I would see another post on X and I think, huh, wow this is a good prank. It really fooled a lot of people. And then I see more and then see it attributed to the AP and I thought, wait a minute, there are a lot of details on this story. And then I found out like the name of the parent company. I'm thinking, huh, did this actually happen in the actual real world? The Onion bought InfoWars.

Now I heard somebody say that they thought that the Sandy Hook victims were behind it to get it to be an anti-gun platform or something. But am I wrong that The Onion stopped being funny several years ago? Am I wrong about that? Do you remember when The Onion was the funniest thing on the internet? I mean by far it was just the funniest thing on the internet. And then something happened and I don't know. I think maybe I changed or maybe I just wasn't seeing their posts as much but they kind of disappeared. Or at least they didn't produce any viral content because I just stopped seeing them. So I didn't know what happened to The Onion. I thought they closed or something. But apparently they changed management and I don't know what their management is up to but they've now bought two properties that you'd have to wonder why they would do it. The Onion as it was dying and InfoWars, just the assets. But if he's buying a studio, situation in an IP and a bunch of customers, I maybe. But if you were leaning, what good would it be to have a bunch of customer lists of people who watched InfoWars? I don't know. There's something about this story that isn't making sense. So until we see what the buyer has in mind for this we won't really know what's happening here.

All right, I got a question for you. There's another story. Sounds like the same story that's every day in the news. But there's another teacher. This one's a woman who is allegedly, she raped a 13-year-old boy. And she ditched her husband for the boy that she called her crystal meth. So now when they show the picture of the woman you look at her eyes in the photograph and you say to yourself, oh okay I've seen those eyes before. You've seen them on Adam Schiff. You've seen them in Charles Manson. You've seen them in AOC. And you've seen them in a lot of TikTok videos where people were shaving their heads and acting crazy.

And so here's my question. Do you believe that AI can spot crazy people by their eyes if you asked it to? Let me tell you the answer in advance. Yes, you definitely can. If you trained AI to spot people who are mentally ill or at least going to be acting way outside the box of normal behavior, you could do it. Now I don't think you could do it 100%. I do think there are some people who just have sort of bug eyes and maybe Adam Schiff is one of them. I don't know. But I think you could get 80%. Wouldn't you like to know if somebody's got mental illness just by their eyes? Okay, and that's just by how wide they are. I think if you started looking at like the pupils you get a whole different level of knowledge. So yes, I believe it is inevitable that AI will start trying to spot crazy people by their eyes. Not crazy but maybe criminally inappropriate people.

Well, in the midst of the busiest news day, we're going to talk about all the appointments. There was a UAP hearing. UAP being the new word for UFOs basically. And there's a whistleblower, Lue Elizondo, who says the United States has UAP technologies not made by our government or any other government. And Tim Gallaudet is telling us that UAPs represent a new realization that we are not the only advanced intelligence in our universe. And allegedly other governments also have some UAP technology that they're trying to reverse engineer.

If I may

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summarize all of this news, once again there's somebody who does not have a photograph, has no personal firsthand knowledge of anything. And no, I don't believe a single thing about the UAP reports. Not a single thing. I do not believe there is an alien intelligence. I do not believe there's an ancient civilization of beings that are in the ocean and they've got crafts that sometimes come out of t…

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