More than 100 Americans are missing after catastrophic flooding in Nepal, Iceland rejects membership in the European Union, nine in ten Americans carry credit card debt, and workplace drug-test failures hit a 20-year high.

Plus, the Message of the Day, the backlash against AI data centers is a populist revolt against Silicon Valley elites who treat American communities as obstacles. Two Kentucky women who rejected $26 million for their farm is proof that not everything can be bought.

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Michigan’s Democrat nominee for US Senate, Abdul El-Sayed, apologizes for his response to a synagogue attack earlier this year as Democrats clash over the party’s direction and a possible Kamala Harris comeback. British commentator and social media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos is deported to the United Kingdom after immigration authorities say he overstayed his visa and missed a court hearing. Jurors in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial are set to resume deliberations after requesting key evidence - The MK True Crime Show co-host Phil Holloway weighs in. Two men are charged in an alleged $1.3 million scam targeting women through dating apps and social media, with one accused of posing as a San Francisco 49ers player and presenting the other as his financial adviser.

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How much of the Middle East’s history was actually shaped by the West?

The story most of us learned about who created the modern Middle East is incomplete. Dan is joined by historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Cauldron, who argues that we give Western powers too much credit and the people of the region too little agency. In Part I of their conversation, they trace the forces that shaped the region, from the Ottoman legacy and the rise of nationalism to the Iranian Revolution and Islamism.

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In this episode: 

- Who really made the modern Middle East?

- The myth of empire as a Western phenomenon

- How the Middle East lost its diversity

- Did the nation-state fail the Middle East?

- Why Iran’s 1979 revolution changed everything

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AI can now reproduce a person’s face, voice, movement, and likeness with increasing realism.

The bigger question is becoming: Who gets to control that identity, authorize its use, and potentially get paid when it has commercial value?

In Episode #684 of the New Media Show,  Host Rob Greenlee talks with Anne Kavanagh, co-founder of Royall.ai, about building a new permission and licensing layer around human identity.

The conversation is not about stopping or being anti-AI. It is about establishing something that has largely been missing: proof and authorization before use.

Your Identity Becomes an Asset You Control

Royall.ai is developing what Anne describes as a biometric vault where people can register elements of their identity, including voice, face, likeness, and body motion.

Those assets can be fingerprinted and watermarked, creating the foundation for detecting use, approving or rejecting it, and potentially licensing it commercially.

That changes the discussion from simply asking whether AI can clone someone to asking whether the person actually gave permission.

A creator could potentially say:

Protection and Opportunity

The same technology designed to identify unauthorized use could also create legitimate new markets for human identity.

Anne describes a future where AI companies, studios, agencies, platforms, and brands could license verified human data rather than simply collecting material from the public internet.

Creators could choose whether their voice, face, movement, or content can be used for AI training and receive compensation when they opt in.

This becomes especially important as synthetic media becomes indistinguishable from human media. Rob also raises another possibility: as AI-generated content becomes abundant, verified or certified human-created content may itself become more valuable.

Podcast Archives Create Another Rights Problem

The discussion gets particularly relevant to podcasting. A podcast owner may control thousands of hours of archived conversations, but that does not necessarily mean the owner has the right to license every guest’s voice for AI training.

Rob explains that the New Media

Asymmetric Intimacy"

Executive Producers:

Stuart Greene

Jessica Greene

Sir Sala Hauser

Sir Ty of God's Flat Earth

Eric Wilka

Dr. Sir OneAwesome Jason PhD.

Tom Beben

Katherine Nicholas

Sir JoFo

Peter Bickford

Raymond Lee (switcheroo from Indy NA Meetup)

Indy NA Meetup

The Sydney No Agenda Meetup Mob — Sir Chris Wilson

Associate Executive Producers:

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Annette Miller (switcheroo from Indy NA Meetup)

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Linda Lupatkin — Imagemakers Ink, Duchess of Jobs

Knights and Dames:

Stuart Greene > Sir Troubleshooter

Raymond Lee > Sir Raymond

Jessica Greene > Dame Doula at your Cervix

Annette Miller > Dame Near Perfect

Order of the Ant:

Stuart Greene

Jessica Greene

Sir Sala Hauser

Sir Ty of God's Flat Earth

Eric Wilka

Dr. Sir OneAwesome Jason PhD.

Tom Beben

Katherine Nicholas

Sir JoFo

Peter Bickford

Raymond Lee

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Art By: Tyler Brown

Mark van Dijk - Systems Master

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Back Office Jae Dvorak

Chapters: Dreb Scott

Clip Custodian: Neal Jones

Clip Collectors: Steve Jones & Dave Ackerman

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Asset Allocation finally explained with our guest -Tom Nelson, Senior Vice-President and head of asset allocation portfolio management at Franklin Templeton.

Tom Nelson is a senior vice president and head of asset allocation portfolio management for Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions. He is a member of the Investment Strategy & Research Committee.

He is a portfolio manager of a number of funds offered for sale in various jurisdictions. He is lead portfolio manager of the Franklin NextStep Fund series, the Franklin VolSmart Allocation VIP Fund and numerous model portfolio programs. He is portfolio manager of Franklin LifeSmart Retirement Target Funds, the Franklin Fund Allocator Series available in the United States and several custom institutional portfolio mandates.

Mr. Nelson joined Franklin Templeton in 2007 and co-founded the firm’s quantitative research services group upon joining the company. He moved to Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions in 2009. Prior to working at Franklin Templeton, Mr. Nelson worked for Bloomberg LP from 1991 to 2007, where he was most recently manager of the Americas market specialist teams.

Mr. Nelson holds a B.S. in accounting from the University of Delaware. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder and a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) charterholder. He is a member of the CFA Institute, the New York Society of Security