Butler vane and Axiom tackle the damn news together. First though, we catch up a little bit on the weather and some spectacular hijinx. From there we cover briefly the tenuous ceasefire agreement in Gaza.

We pivot from that into a discussion of the Nobel peace prize and the new lady guaido on the block. Then we break down our thoughts on AI and its looming bubble before getting into one of our favorite dead horses, the ol' donkey itself: the Democratic Party. Zohran for mayor Inshallah!

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(1:31) PIC social media has sucked ever since 'the dress'

(2:12) ARTICLE Science Direct - Auditory perception: Laurel and Yanny together at last https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982218307590

(3:04) ARTICLE Slate - We finally know why people saw 'the dress' differently https://slate.com/technology/2017/04/heres-why-people-saw-the-dress-differently.html

(4:21) ARTICLE Scientific American - At the peak of hurricane season, the Atlantic is quiet: here's why https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/atlantic-hurricane-season-has-gone-quiet-heres-why/

(4:24) ARTICLE Britannica - Tropical storm Melissa dumps heavy rain on Haiti and the Dominican Republic https://www.britannica.com/news/168728/530ee68b7a5fd0fb96605b5ff12b8289

(5:02) LINK New York Post - full video of NYC lady yelling at ICE https://youtu.be/ZPA6oQeHb7w?si=FTcFKrbVwo3841Bi

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(20:38) TWEET MTG acknowledges health insurance prices will double soon for many people

(20:56) ARTICLE Kaisar Family Foundation - ADA marketplace insurance premium payments would more than double on average next year if enhanced premium tax credits expire https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/aca-marketplace-premium-payments-would-more-than-double-on-average-next-year-if-enhanced-premium-tax-credits-expire/

(21:33) ARTICLE The Hill - James Carville leans on 'it's the economy, stupid' after Harris loss https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5063265-james-carville-kamala-harris-donald-trump-2024-election-economy/

(22:30) ARTICLE Daily Beast/Yahoo News - James Carville tells Dems the best way to beat Trump is to 'roll over and play dead' https://www.yahoo.com/news/james-carville-tells-dems-best-152840312.html

(22:41) ARTICLE Daily Beast - Opinion: Democrats 'play dead' strategy will be the death of the party https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-democrats-play-dead-strategy-153504374.html

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(23:10) ARTICLE TWEET smugness about peace in the middle east

(23:21) ARTICLE NPR - Israel strikes Gaza as both Israel and Hamas accuse each other of breaching ceasefire https://www.npr.org/2025/10/19/nx-s1-5579554/israel-and-hamas-accuse-each-other-of-breaching-fragile-ceasefire-in-gaza

(23:25) ARTICLE BBC News, Tony Blair would help oversee Gaza transition under Trump Plan https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5j989107lo

(23:47) ARTICLE Al Jazeera - Has the Gaza ceasefire been broken? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/20/has-the-gaza-ceasefire-been-broken

ARTICLE The Guardian - Israel has violated ceasefire 47 times and killed 38 civilivians, says Gaza media office https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/18/israel-has-violated-ceasefire-47-times-and-killed-38-palestinians-says-gaza-media-office

(23:55) ARTICLE Associated Press - In first 100 days, Trump struggles to make good on promises to end Ukraine and Gaza wars https://apnews.com/article/trump-ukraine-gaza-russia-100-days-ad7af3502370f1743e28690ac0ce2a17

(24:04) ARTICLE United Nations - Letter from the State of Palestine, Israel continues to violate the ceasefire agreement; UN facilities are being attacked https://www.un.org/unispal/document/israel-continues-to-violate-the-ceasefire-agreement-un-facilities-are-being-attacked-letter-from-the-state-of-palestine-a-es-10-1027-s-2025-173/

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(24:23) ARTICLE CNN - Fact Check: Trump's '$17 trillion' investment figure is fiction https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/politics/fact-check-trump-17-trillion-investment

(24:31) TWEET Trump brags about raising 15 trillion in foreign investment back in September

(24:41) ARTICLE Forbes - Trump says tariffs collected 'trillions' in revenue: here's the real figure https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/08/31/trump-says-his-tariffs-collected-trillions-in-revenue-heres-the-real-figure/

(24:47) TWEET Trump was surprised that China would respond in kind to new tariffs

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(25:05) ARTICLE Associated Press - US is working on doubling aid to Argentina to 40B by tapping private funding sources https://apnews.com/article/trump-argentina-financing-economy-milei-billion-peso-fd38553ae03f4c33ce1288999469f7fb

(26:24) PIC Javier Milei in costume as "Captain Libertarian"

(27:03) PIC Milei gave Elon Musk the chainsaw at CPAC earlier this year

(27:29) ARTICLE The Guardian - Trump threatens to cut US aid to Argentina if Milei loses election https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/14/trump-threatens-to-cut-us-aid-to-argentina-if-milei-loses-election

(27:47) ARTICLE People's Dispatch - Trump Knesset speech displays complete backing of Israel https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/14/trump-knesset-speech-displays-complete-us-backing-of-israel/

(27:59) ARTICLE Anti-War News - Trump suggests one of his biggest donors loves Israel more than the US https://news.antiwar.com/2025/10/13/trump-suggests-one-of-his-biggest-donors-cares-more-about-israel-than-the-us/

(29:09) PIC Milei in costume as "Captain Libertarian", equipped with scepter (presumably to break up government regulation?)

(30:52) ARTICLE Vox - What happens when Trump combines the war on drugs with the war on terror? https://www.vox.com/world-politics/460375/boat-strike-tren-de-aragua-venezuela

(31:30) ARTICLE CNN - Trump recognizes Venezuelan opposition leader (Juan Guaido) as nation's president https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/23/politics/trump-juan-guaido-venezuela

(31:43) WIKI María Corina Machado https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Corina_Machado

(31:52) ARTICLE CBS - Columbian president alleges last boat bombed by US was from his country, White House calls his claim 'baseless' https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colombian-president-alleged-drug-boat-from-his-country-white-house-baseless/

(32:04) ARTICLE CNN - US releasing survivors of strike on suspected drug vessel to their home countries https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/18/politics/caribbean-boat-strike-survivors

(32:18) LINK CVCE - Address given by JFK on the events of Cuba (20 April 1961) https://www.cvce.eu/en/obj/address_given_by_john_f_kennedy_on_the_events_in_cuba_20_april_1961-en-3b6151d7-86e0-4181-a057-918baf9064a8.html

(32:26) CORRECTION: the strikes are happening in Caribbean, not in the Gulf of Mexico

(32:43) ARTICLE USA Today - Fact check: Jimmy Carter put his peanut farm into a blind trust during his presidency https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/02/24/fact-check-jimmy-carter-put-peanut-farm-blind-trust-during-term-president/11340029002/

(33:25) ARTICLE The Guardian - Jimmy Carter's life after the presidency set a bar that few others have reached https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/30/jimmy-carter-post-presidency-life-public-service

(33:44) WIKI María Corina Machado https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Corina_Machado

(34:04) NOTE: we added the word "allegedly" to this news story since this is all just speculation at this point. Machado has, however, already dedicated the prize to Trump. ARTICLE New Yorker - Why María Corina Machado says that Trump deserves her Nobel Peace Prize https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/why-maria-corina-machado-says-that-donald-trump-deserves-her-peace-prize

(34:08) ARTICLE The Guardian - Nobel peace prize investigate surge in bets for winner: Bets for Machado spiked on Polymarket gambling site hours before she was awarded prize https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/10/nobel-peace-prize-bets-polymarket

(34:38) NOTE: if this allegation is true, this could be considered insider trading.

(34:47) CHART polymarket betting before nobel peace prize

(34:58) CORRECTION: this trade didn't generate millions, but 3 accounts made at least $90,000

(35:12) ARTICLE Wall Street Journal - A mystery polymarket trader scored with prescient bets on the Nobel Peace Prize https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/polymarket-nobel-peace-prize-bets-c34ee0c8?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqfPyY73m8a-poYolYH5mnLrBHHPJvz7MINhVNE4DeQbhTLPB_3vgLNiqv3Psnw%3D&gaa_ts=6901200d&gaa_sig=_HT1In0Rwx3vAGfX5YmMs-6okeJfM30aFl-2Ldz5FNJ3f2LGkJlz8RiFbJm7zTTNt-MOzb0OLHgvJhcSmKcylw%3D%3D

(35:12) ARTICLE BBC - Venezuela opposition: everyone knows we won vote https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypreexqxlo

ARTICLE CNN - US says Maduro lost election as opposition leader says she's in hiding https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/01/americas/venezuela-election-opposition-machado-hiding-intl-latam

(36:07) ARTICLE Live Science - The Dark Side of Nobel prizes https://www.livescience.com/40188-dark-history-alfred-nobel-prizes.html

(36:24) ARTICLE Australian Institute of International Affairs - The Nobel Peace Prize's legitimacy crisis: María Corina Machado's 2025 award and the end of moral authority https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/the-nobel-peace-prizes-legitimacy-crisis-maria-corina-machados-2025-award-and-the-end-of-moral-authority/

(36:36) ARTICLE CNN - Venezuela's Nobel Peace Prize winner calls on Trump to stop Maduro's 'war' on her country https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/americas/venezuela-machado-trump-maduro-latam-intl

(36:43) ARTICLE NPR - Supreme Court seems poised to further undercut the Voting Rights Act https://www.npr.org/2025/10/15/nx-s1-5575101/scotus-voting-rights-arguments

(36:51) QUOTE from Joseph Stalin

(37:23) ARTICLE The Guardian - How Venezuela's opposition proved its election win. This article demonstrates how the opposition party proved it had won the popular vote by a almost a 2-to-1 margin, but this argument seems to suggest that political power ought to take the side of popular majorities. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/10/gonzalez-proof-win-venezuela-election-vote-tally-maduro

(37:39) PIC Venezuela 2024 electoral college map

(37:51) ARTICLE CBS News - The crisis in Venezuela. Maduro declared a national emergency and military crackdown after last election in order to secure power. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-crisis-in-venezuela-nicolas-maduro-election-denialism/

(38:28) ARTICLE CNN - California Democrats approve Newsom's redistricting plan after Texas House passes GOP-drawn maps https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/21/politics/california-democrats-redistricting-plan

(38:58) ARTICLE History.com - How gerrymandering began in the US https://www.history.com/articles/gerrymandering-origins-voting

(41:14) ARTICLE The Nation - The Supreme Court can't even agree on a code of ethics for itself https://www.thenation.com/article/society/the-supreme-court-needs-ethics-reform/

(42:06) ARTICLE Sacramento Bee - One word describes Gavin Newsom live on Twitch playing Fortnite: Cringe https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article312375311.html

(42:22) ARTICLE Data for Progress - Majority of voters think Supreme Court justices Thomas and Alito should be impeached, support gift bans and term limits https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/7/16/majority-of-voters-think-supreme-court-justices-thomas-and-alito-should-be-impeached-support-gift-bans-and-term-limits

(42:59) ARTICLE The Atlantic - Just how bad would an AI bubble be? https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/09/ai-bubble-us-economy/684128/

(43:10) ARTICLE NPR - Artificial intelligence's thirst for electricity https://www.npr.org/2024/07/10/nx-s1-5028558/artificial-intelligences-thirst-for-electricity

(43:44) ARTICLE Newsreel Asia - The exploited workers behind the AI we use: some of them are paid less than $20 for a 10-hour shift https://newsreel.asia/articles/the-exploited-workers-behind-the-ai-we-use

(44:31) ARTICLE Harvard Business Review - The uneven distribution of AI's environmental impacts https://hbr.org/2024/07/the-uneven-distribution-of-ais-environmental-impacts

(44:45) ARTICLE Axios - MIT study on AI profits rattles tech investors: AI investment led to zero returns for 95% of companies https://www.axios.com/2025/08/21/ai-wall-street-big-tech

(45:04) ARTICLE NBC News - Big AI's reliance on circular deals is raising fears of a bubble https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/openai-nvidia-amd-deals-risks-rcna234806

(45:11) ARTICLE Ed Zitron - Why everybody is losing money on AI https://www.wheresyoured.at/why-everybody-is-losing-money-on-ai/

(46:14) ARTICLE Economic Times - Amazon layoffs: Is Amazon replacing humans with robots? Leaked docs reveal company's plans to replace 600,000 workers with robots by 2027 https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/amazon-layoffs-is-amazon-replacing-humans-with-robots-leaked-docs-reveal-companys-plan-to-replace-600000-workers-with-robots-by-2027/articleshow/124727671.cms?from=mdr

(46:37) ARTICLE Associated Press - Carney says Canada will double its non-US exports as Canadians can't rely on US https://apnews.com/article/canada-carney-trump-budget-exports-c78a41c00167bc1d8177d5d74e34d09f

(47:13) ARTICLE The Atlantic - America is sliding toward illiteracy: declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/education-decline-low-expectations/684526/

(50:49) PIC AI joke ads, fascinating in almost a dadaist kind of way

(51:24) PIC Another website for gambling on anything

(52:10) WIKI Mannerism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannerism

(56:49) ARTICLE Bloomberg - AI demand is draining water from places that need it most https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-impacts-data-centers-water-data/

(58:29) ARTICLE The Square - How are brands being changed by Artificial Intelligence? https://the-square.co/how-are-brands-being-changed-by-artificial-intelligence/

(58:42) PIC Maps - now AI powered

(59:58) ARTICLE The Tribune - Hasan Piker enters the spotlight after Andrew Cuomo, Zohran Mamdani clash in mayoral debate https://tribune.com.pk/story/2572915/hasan-piker-enters-the-spotlight-after-andrew-cuomo-zohran-mamdani-clash-in-mayoral-debate

(1:00:07) PIC Babe Ruth pointing the bat during the 1932 World Series

(1:00:14) PIC Nixon was famously criticized in the first televised debate for failing to adapt to the new medium

(1:00:49) ARTICLE Latin Times - Mamdani breaks silence about Maduro and Cuban president Díaz-Canel: how Jorge Ramos and daughter Paola got him to open up https://www.latintimes.com/mamdani-breaks-silence-about-maduro-cuban-president-diaz-canel-how-jorge-ramos-daughter-paola-589809

(1:00:58) VIDEO Comedian Gianmarco Soresi jokes that he and Hasan have a lot of mutual followers https://tribune.com.pk/story/2572915/hasan-piker-enters-the-spotlight-after-andrew-cuomo-zohran-mamdani-clash-in-mayoral-debate

(1:01:02) AUDIO played here sourced from @GianmarcoSoresi on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/shorts/poqjFGyxJIM

(1:02:24) ARTICLE NYT - Cuomo doesn't blame himself for losing the primary, others do https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/nyregion/cuomo-mayor-campaign.html

(1:02:57) ARTICLE The Hill - Mamdani holds wide lead over Cuomo in new poll https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5577368-mamdani-cuomo-new-york-poll/

(1:03:49) ARTICLE Fox News - Cuomo quips 'even I will move to Florida' if Mamdani wins NYC mayoral bid https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cuomo-jokes-even-i-move-florida-mamdani-wins-nyc-mayoral-bid

(1:04:14) ARTICLE New York Post - Sliwa wants 'full crackdown' on open-air prostitution market in Brooklyn https://nypost.com/2021/07/16/nyc-mayoral-candidate-curtis-sliwa-calls-for-full-crackdown-on-brooklyn-sex-market/

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(1:06:04) PIC Studying Florida makes you feel like Pepe Sylvia

(1:06:39) ARTICLE NPR - Attorney General Bondi brushes aside questions about her handling of Epstein files https://www.npr.org/2025/07/15/g-s1-77698/pam-bondi-jeffrey-epstein-justice-department

(1:07:03) ARTICLE ABC News - Trump says some 'Democrat programs' to be cut during shutdown may never come back https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/strategy-speaker-johnson-backs-gops-clean-cr-shutdown/story?id=126511106

(1:08:07) VIDEO The Independent - Trump mocks 'No Kings' protests with shocking AI videos https://youtu.be/nWHDKDwnJZs?si=KJ5vhoX4uyalxaMI

(1:08:36) ARTICLE The Guardian - Trump reposts AI-generated video of plane dumping sludge on No Kings protestors https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/20/trump-ai-video-no-kings

(1:09:27) PIC Trump shares AI-generated video of himself, flying a jet, as a king, dropping poop on the No Kings protests

(1:09:34) PIC Trump AI-generated video drops poop on Harry Sisson?

(1:09:42) WIKI Harry Sisson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Sisson_(influencer)

(1:09:50) ARTICLE Yougov - Most Americans react negatively when shown three AI-generated videos shared by President Trump https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/53256-most-americans-react-negatively-when-shown-three-ai-generated-videos-posted-by-president-trump

(1:09:50) PIC JD Vance also shared images of Trump being crowned as a king

(1:10:02) ARTICLE Forbes - Sora 2 does a copyright somersault upon launch https://www.forbes.com/sites/legalentertainment/2025/10/17/sora-2-does-a-copyright-somersault-upon-launch/

(1:10:42) ARTICLE CNN - $1 Trump coin is 'real', US Treasurer sayshttps://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/business/trump-coin-treasurer-250-anniversary

ARTICLE NYT - A pile of rubble: after 123 years, the East Wing is gone https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/politics/east-wing-obituary.html

ARTICLE BBC - What we know about White House plans to build 'Arc de Trump' https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7e8lv176go

(1:11:01) ARTICLE G. Elliot Morris - Second 'No Kings Day' protests the largest single-day political protest ever, with 5-6.5 million participants https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-kings-day-protests-likely

(1:11:30) ARTICLE The Guardian - He's anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure 'dark enlightenment' blogger influencing the next administration https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trump

(1:13:56) PIC "the Libs are out in the streets right now doing huge no kings protests, so you really can't blanket condemn liberals."

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