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The Republican Party just imploded. Here’s why it happened and what happens next.

Rich Baris is the Director of Big Data Poll, host of Inside the Numbers with the People’s Pundit, and author of “Burn It Down: What the Polls Say Young Americans Really Want”.

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As results from the midterm elections continue flooding in, for the midweek podcast, we're taking a close look at the social media machinery behind incumbent left-wing Lula da Silva’s dramatic, nail-biting win against Flavio Bolsonaro in Brazil in late October. During the second round of voting on October 25th, da Silva earned 10 million more votes than he had in the first round, a stunning first in modern Brazilian history. In the aftermath of the victory, Adam Bumas, the Head of Research and Associate Editor at the independent news site Garbage Day, wrote a recent piece about how a social media strategy called "gamification," which is usually deployed by the far-right, may have boosted da Silva to victory. Host Micah Loewinger speaks to Bumas about the extremely online Brazilian congressman who pitched the strategy to da Silva, and how a "perfect storm" of factors led to the explosion of a WhatsApp group called "Lula's Army," which ended up exerting enormous influence on the election. 

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Curry and The Keeper is back! After ten months off (our last show was 147, on January 21st), Adam and Tina return to the mics on a new night: Tuesdays. They talk about how the show podfaded and why they came back, the end of No Agenda and the season of change that came with it, and the arrival of their granddaughter, Cleo. Of course the God Shot and the Question of the Week are here as always!

On this episode

Tina's God Shot

For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.— Ephesians 2:10 (NLT)

❓ Question of the Week

When have you felt most loved by me?

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Neocons and climate hysterics have at least one thing in common: they know nothing about energy. Without it, things fall apart. Morgan Downey on the economic effects of American intervention.

(00:00) Where Are We Globally on Energy?

(04:33) Are We Living in a Simulation?

(11:49) Wars Threatening the World’s Natural Gas Supply

(25:23) Who Really Blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline?

(28:12) The US Energy Boom and Europe’s Growing Dependence

(1:08:13) China’s Secret Plan to Turn Coal Into Oil

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The people developing AI tell us it will destroy the world. Why aren’t we holding them accountable for that? Tech investor Ali Partovi on the only way to stop this insanity.

(00:00) Should We Be Worried About AI?

(02:12) The Crimes of AI

(33:28) The Worship of AI as a God

(41:43) The Lies About AI Innovation

(47:08) AI Hacking Banks

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With midterm elections around the corner, conspiracy theories have been planted to sow doubt in the results. On this week’s On the Media, a breakdown of what election rumors to expect on and after Election Day. Plus, how polling fraudsters are threatening trust in public opinion research. 

[00:00]  Micah sits down with Kate Starbird, co-founder of the Center for An Informed Public at the University of Washington, to sort through the rumors swirling in the final week of midterm election campaigns. 

[16:16]  Brooke chats with Mary Radcliffe, head of research at Fifty Plus One, about three fraudulent pollsters she helped catch this year, and how they muddy the waters for critical work that informs our democracy. 

[30:27]  Brooke speaks with Koleman Strumpf, professor of economics at Wake Forest University, about the history of betting on elections and what lessons carry forward to today. 

Further reading / watching:

• “Spot the Lie: 6 Moves of “Rigged Election” Rumors,” by The Center for an Informed Public
• “What to Know About Election Forecasting and Prediction Markets This November,” by The Center for an Informed Public
• “A Tale of Two Sullivans: Rumors Around a Department of Justice Lawsuit in Alaska,” by  The Center for an Informed Public
• “FiftyPlusOne just caught a pollster faking data — and they copped to it,” by Mary Radcliffe, G. Elliott Morris, Cooper Burton, and FiftyPlusOne
• “Historical Presidential Betting Markets,” by Paul Rhode and Koleman Strumpf

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Podcasting 2.0 October 30th 2026 Episode 277 - "x402 Bitch!"

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00 - THE WEEK THE INDEX WENT DARK ON PURPOSE — PHP, NODE AND THE SCRAPERS

Tue 20 Oct, steven: "PHP 9.2 CVE" → php.net archive. Two critical unauthenticated RCEs (Castopod lists CVE-2026-109618 & -109619, PHP below 8.4.27).

Dave, 21 Oct 12:25 UTC: "Heads up, if Podcast Index api goes down at 9:00 am central time you'll know why." Then: "I've taken all the php servers offline until details come out."

16:07: "Podcast index api servers are patched and serving data again." 19:20: "After upgrading php-fpm… the fpm default config was in place so the api is running like a dawg. Restoring the pre-tuned settings now..." 20:19: "Fixed."

Dave on the pile-on: "Security people are unbearable… I know you'll be up all night patching PHP servers but there are also 27 CVE's in 5 other parts of your stack that are just as bad... or worse! Sure." (amended: "security influencers")

Then Node, 22 Oct: "Working on getting the web-ui repo upgraded because node.js blows worse than php. This day won't end." → "Done. Site is now on a current LTS node release and fully patched. Also blocked a large residential proxy scraper and a Chinese scraper bot in the process." → "Well, the site is down. I'm not a node guy…" (recovered). Adam: "Thank you Brother. This was a rough day for you."

web-ui PR #630: Harden outbound fetches to untrusted hosts (Node CVEs)

Others in the fire: Internet Archive ops (boosted by Dave) "used Claude to make fixes for our older php versions, used local models to run simulated attacks, deployed." Castopod 1.15.6 moved Docker to PHP 8.4.27. brianoflondon shut two MediaWiki sites.

And Dave's timing joke: someone shipped a release "on the same day as the global PHP panic? That's like someone choosing to release their indie film on the same day as Ghostbusters."

 For Dave: what was in the scraper traffic, and is the API back to its pre-tuned numbers?

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01 - ️ PNWR: THE PROFESSOR, LIQUID CONTENT, AND "SOMEBODY AS SMART AS ADAM CURRY" (2 clips)

Podnews Weekly Review, 23 Oct — "Podcasting is liquid content now" (1h36m). Guest: Steven Goldstein, CEO/founder of Amplify Media and NYU professor.

The open: Sam Sethi: "The Podcasting 2.0 and the Podcast Index, the Adam Curry and Dave Jones Project, is now six years old." J

Will Republicans get crushed next week? Could there be a third party president in 2028? Is James Talarico the creepiest man alive? We answer these and other questions in this midterm edition of Ask Tucker.

(00:00) Intro

(00:32) Should We Give the Republicans One Last Chance?

(09:38) Who Are the Three Best and Three Worst Politicians?

(13:48) How Does the Donor Class Control Politicians?

(25:03) Is Socialism Gaining Traction?

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The Final Episode

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William J Lyon

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Raymond Poort

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Matthew King

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Cody Blair

Sir Smelliot

Geoff Zaba

Danielle Carothers

Kevin Vogeltanz

Thomas Tucker

Yair Mohr

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Mark Kanof

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Scott North

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Sean Bergeron

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Sir Matt of Northeast Ohio

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Pieter Scholtz

Maikel van der Hoorn

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Dame Susan

Dreb Scott, Arch Duke

Peter van Eeden

Thomas Anaya

John Donovan

Sir Tar Heal

Sir Jeramey Johnson

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Charles Boch

Dame Patricia

Chris Mitzlaff

Zach & Ashley Williams

Benjamin Hasselbring

Sir Chris Birge

Sir Matthew Wells

Sir Big Poppa Moose

Jeff Barich (switcheroo from Elizabeth Barich)

Sir Stregolicous

Dame Catty Bones

Phil, the pool water guy

Casey Van Heel

Nicholas Gregorchik

The Letter J

Sir William

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Paul Fellner

Jacqulyn Smith

Sir Scovee, Grand Duke of the Piedmont

Alexander Broadfoot

Justin Proulx

Bobby (switcheroo from Sarah Heiney)

Andy Klueber

Andy Villarreal

Lawrence Turnbull

Kim Hillage

Ryan Jones

Michael Henderson

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Sir Dan of West Central Ohio

Sir Craig Porter

Patrick Henry

David Veilleux

Sir Morgan

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Lee Pereira

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Thomas Schafer

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Joshua Byle

Paul Hobbs

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Tony C

Carey Jackson

Daniel Sproul

Sean Roberts

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Cloud Pemble

Troy Haskin

Sir Steiner of Spokanistan

Nicholas Schroeder

Christopher Mangan

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The mask comes off during Israeli elections. Jeffrey Sachs on the future of the world’s most bloodthirsty ethnostate.
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a Columbia University professor and leading foreign policy expert. He has advised multiple UN Secretaries-General and serves as an SDG Advocate to António Guterres. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and spent over 20 years as a professor at Harvard University. He is also the author of The Ages of Globalization (2020) and Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development (2022).

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