Not much in the news to cover, except unfortunate deaths around the world.

Hosted by:

- Jesse Fries

- Jamon Fries

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(00:00:19) Intro

(00:03:30) Faith, and free will

(00:07:37) College volleyball outing

(00:13:07) Kicking off topics; Trumps AI order and federal overreach

(00:17:05) Remote work vs. return to office and classroom learning

(00:21:45) California budget woes and state comparisons

(00:27:18) Immigration cases and an ICE arrest with a twist

(00:31:02) Rob Reiners killing and reactions; Trump backlash

(00:37:35) Campus free speech clash at Oklahoma University

(00:47:23) DoorDash pepper spray food story and U.S. security cases

(00:53:23) FBI stings, entrapment questions, and New Years plot

(00:55:32) Australian Hanukkah attack and police response critique

(01:03:01) Louvre strike and European farmer protests

(01:07:22) Ukraine peace talk contours and NATO question

(01:09:08) Value-for-value support break and contact info

(01:10:20) Live translation gadgets and the universal translator dream

(01:14:26) AI translation nuance and idioms across languages

(01:14:47) Studies on short videos and attention hijacking

(01:18:58) Comic relief and sign-off