We break down the interview with Elon Musk

Clips used under fair use from JRE show #2281

Intro Credit - AlexGrohl: 

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Outro Credit - Soulful Jam Tracks: https://www.youtube.com/@soulfuljamtracks

Photo by Gage Skidmore.

References:

• Guide to USAID’s Assistance Application Process and to Submitting Unsolicited Assistance Applications

• USAID cuts are already hitting countries around the world. Here are 20 projects that have closed

• Musk says work to stop Ebola was accidentally cut but restored. Experts raise doubts

• Musk misreads Social Security data, millions of dead people not getting benefits, experts say

• Musk's claims of Social Security payouts to dead people lack evidence

• Tens of millions of dead people aren't getting Social Security checks, despite Trump and Musk claims | AP News

• DOGE.GOV | Savings

• Elon Musk’s conflicts of interest ‘should scare every American’, experts say

• A look at the misleading and incorrect claims on DOGE’s ‘wall of receipts’ | PBS News

• DOGE released data about federal contract savings. It doesn’t add up : NPR

• Dozens of DOGE ‘receipts’ saved no money and killed contracts meant to boost efficiency

• One Agency Tried to Regulate SpaceX. Now Its Fate Could Be in Elon Musk’s Hands.

• Musk’s Starlink gets FAA contract, raising new conflict of interest concerns

• Air traffic controllers union hits back at Trump DEI comments

• Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) “Didn’t Evade Tax” says Elon Musk

• FACT FOCUS: FEMA funding to New York City to assist migrants is misrepresented | AP News

• What was Trump convicted of? Details on the 34 counts and his guilty verdict

• After conviction, Trump questioned the New York statute of limitations. Here are the facts

• LinkedIn Co-Founder Helps Fund E. Jean Carroll’s Suit Accusing Trump of Rape - The New York Times

• Elon Musk tweeted something even he can't defend

• “Tim Walz - Nazi Salute Heil”

• Lawsuit Over Firing of Sports Show Host for Tweeting "ALL LIVES MATTER...EVERY SINGLE ONE" Can Go Forward

• Real estate agent fired after 'all lives matter' post; sues former employer

• NBA voice Grant Napear was fired for stating 'All Lives Matter' truth

• US sues SpaceX, alleges hiring discrimination against asylum recipients, refugees | Reuters

• Biden’s DOJ Suing Elon Musk’s Space X for Discrimination Against Asylees, Refugees

• COVID-19 deaths | WHO COVID-19 dashboard

• Grok called out for mistaking sensitive medical data

• Wired - What You Need to Know About Grok AI and Your Privacy

• Experts Alarmed by People Uploading Their Medical Scans to Elon Musk's Grok AI

• Hitler-loving white nationalist Nick Fuentes on Elon Musk's salute: "That was a straight up like 'Sieg Heil',' like loving Hitler en

We break down the interview with Ky Dickens

Clips used under fair use from JRE show #2279

Intro Credit - AlexGrohl: 

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Outro Credit - Soulful Jam Tracks: https://www.youtube.com/@soulfuljamtracks

• The Telepathy Tapes is wrong – autistic children don’t have supernatural powers

• The Telepathy Tapes Prove We All Want to Believe

• Why communication from a ‘locked-in’ child is a miracle we must question

• Can Animals Detect When Their Owners  Are Returning Home?  An Experimental Test Of The ‘psychic Pet’ Phenomenon

• Empirical Evidence for Reincarnation? Examining Stevenson's Most Impressive Case | Skeptical Inquirer

• Wikipedia – Bernard Rimland

• Fewer blind Americans learning to use Braille

We break down the interview with Mike Benz

Clips used under fair use from JRE show #2272

Intro Credit - AlexGrohl: 

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Outro Credit - Soulful Jam Tracks: https://www.youtube.com/@soulfuljamtracks

Notes:

• Report on OCCRP Distorts Facts

• Letter to mediapart editors

• OCCRP - Year in Review 2023

• Strengthening Transparency and Accountability through

• Investigative Reporting (STAIR) Program

• Peru’s Congress Accepts Corruption Charges against

• President Pedro Castillo

• Congo Opens Trial Against Former Presidential Adviser

• Tshimanga

• Ex-FIFA Executive Jack Warner Financed “Election

• Engineering” Campaign in Trinidad

• Romanian court orders recount of the 1st round of the

• presidential vote, won by a far-right outsider

• EU parliament strips Polish ruling party MEPs of immunity

• to face hate crime indictment

• How to Dismantle an Illiberal Democracy

• European populists back Putin as they roll out their

• anti-Ukraine positions

• What the Taliban Poppy Ban Means for Afghan Poverty and Migration

• How the Taliban Suppressed Opium in Afghanistan—and Why There’s Little to Celebrate

• A vision for 2021 and beyond

We break down the interview with Tucker Carlson

Clips used under fair use from JRE show #2138

Intro Credit - AlexGrohl: 

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Outro Credit - Soulful Jam Tracks: https://www.youtube.com/@soulfuljamtracks

• No, Amish kids aren’t immune to cancer, diabetes and autism — and they aren’t vaccine-free, either

• What the data says about abortion in the U.S.

• Hawaii Rep. Gabbard met with Syria's Assad during trip | AP News

• Gabbard's sympathetic views toward Russia cause alarm as Trump's pick to lead intelligence services

• Tulsi Gabbard’s history with Russia is even more concerning than you think | The Independent

• Black rights activists convicted over Russian links

• US charges 4 Americans, 3 Russians in election discord case

• Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute – “Defraud”

• World Socialist Web Site: FBI agents raid black nationalist group’s homes, offices over bogus allegations of conspiracy with Russia

• World Socialist Web Site – Wikipedia

• SENS. BERNIE SANDERS AND JOSH HAWLEY: Cap credit card interest rates at 10% | Fox News

• Senate Democrats take aim at credit card fees amid inflation - Roll Call

• Ukraine applied to join NATO in 2008, application not withdrawn, final decision on country's entry should now be made by NATO members – Stefanishyna

• Bucharest Summit Declaration

• Remarks by the Vice President in an Exchange with Reporters in Munich, Germany

• How effective are California’s homelessness programs? Audit finds state hasn’t kept track well

• California spent billions on homelessness without tracking if it worked

• Tucker Carlson claims Sandy Hook denier Alex Jones is a supernatural prophet who predicted 9/11

• How ‘Deep Throat’ Took Down Nixon From Inside the FBI

• Tucker Carlson, Glenn Greenwald, the JFK Assassination, Watergate, and the MAGA Perversion of History

• Fact Check: Did the CIA Want Julian Assange Killed? - Newsweek

• ‘They spied on my campaign’: How Trump transformed a conspiracy theory into a political rallying cry

• UFO is "moving at hundreds of miles an hour underwater," Republican congressman says - CBS News

• I’m still looking for these court cases where the families of U.S: service members are suing for health/death benefits stemming from said service member being killed by a UFO.

We break down the interview with Bret Weinstein

Photo by Gage Skidmore

Clips used under fair use from JRE show #2269

Links in the show:

• What USAID does, and why Trump and Musk want to get rid of it | AP News

• Here's a look at Musk's contact with Putin and why it matters | AP News

• Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report

• From fighting disease to protecting the Amazon rainforest, USAID has big impact across the globe

• 'People will die': Chaos and mounting fear in Uganda as USAID cuts lead to 'total panic' and HIV clinic closures

• About Us - FactCheck.org

• Trump Misleads on the Cost of Electric Vehicle Chargers - FactCheck.org

• No, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren aren’t top recipients of pharmaceutical industry donations

• https://x.com/kanekoathegreat/status/1886951727913689355?s=46&t=3aiwa8npFGvAk9B39cYciQ

• Fact checking Joe Rogan's latest podcast : r/JoeRogan

• Claims about Politico, ‘DEI musical’ and USAID spending distort the facts

• THE VIEW FROM FEZ: A Bizarre Project Aimed to Teach Moroccans How to Make Pottery

• Central America: USAID Assists Migrants Returning to their Home Countries, but Effectiveness of Reintegration Efforts Remains to Be Determined | U.S. GAO

• https://www.usaid.gov/

• Fact Check: The Ties Between Alvin Bragg and George Soros - The New York Times

• Elon Musk spent more than $290 million on the 2024 election, year-end FEC filings show | CNN Politics

• US House passes $600 million border security bill | Reuters

• https://x.com/amuse/status/1886883818889416863

• Federal money for migrant services on hold

• '60 Minutes' publicly releases transcripts of interview at heart of its dispute with Trump

• https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pbq6fcc0iltxnx3ahukmz/Transcript-Transcribed-Unedited-Interview-Footage-8-of-14.pdf?rlkey=7xvynvcj6is6eukyclmbg7i6u&e=2&st=gzy0zb4u&dl=0

• Obama did not sign a law allowing propaganda in the U.S. | AP News

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Outro Credit - Soulful Jam Tracks: https://www.youtube.com/@soulfuljamtracks

We break down the interview with Warren Smith

Clips used under fair use from JRE show #2261

These are the links mentioned in our conversations

J.K. Rowling’s bigotry is painful and maddening (opinion) | CNN

White Supremacists Trying To Recruit On College Campuses : NPR

Hundreds protest against racism, present demands

Roland Fryer is wrong: There is racial bias in shootings by police | Justin M. Feldman, ScD

Racial disparities revealed in massive traffic stop dataset - UofSC News & Events | University of South Carolina

Racial Disparities in Law Enforcement Stops - Public Policy Institute of California

Most violent crime rates have fallen back to pre-pandemic levels, new report shows

A Complete Breakdown of the J.K. Rowling Transgender-Comments Controversy | Glamour

Nirvana fallacy - Wikipedia

Fact-checking Donald Trump's claim that wind turbines kill whales

Growth of photovoltaics - Wikipedia

Intro Credit - AlexGrohl: 

https://www.patreon.com/alexgrohlmusic 

Outro Credit - Soulful Jam Tracks: https://www.youtube.com/@soulfuljamtracks

Photo credit: Warren Smith Twitter Account

We break down the interview with Lex Fridman

Links referenced in the show:

• Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation - Wikipedia 

• Izium mass graves - Wikipedia 

• 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive - Wikipedia

• Putin accuses US of orchestrating 2014 ‘coup’ in Ukraine | Vladimir Putin News | Al Jazeera

• De-bunking Russian disinformation on NATO

• What It Means That Republicans Aren’t Acting on the Pete Hegseth Allegations - The New York Times

• Deus vult - Wikipedia

Clips used under fair use from JRE show #2260

Intro Credit - AlexGrohl: 

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Outro Credit - Soulful Jam Tracks: https://www.youtube.com/@soulfuljamtracks

We break down the interview with Mark Zuckerberg

Clips used under fair use from JRE show #2255

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Outro Credit - Soulful Jam Tracks: https://www.youtube.com/@soulfuljamtracks

Here are the links referenced in the show:

• Mark Zuckerberg personally rejected Meta’s proposals to improve teen mental health, court documents allege | CNN Business

• AG Campbell Files Lawsuit Against Meta, Instagram For Unfair And Deceptive Practices That Harm Young People | Mass.gov

• Big Tech Needs More Regulation | Meta

• Trump claims Zuckerberg plotted against him during the 2020 election in soon-to-be released book - POLITICO

• Facebook whistleblower says company incentivizes "angry, polarizing, divisive content" - 60 Minutes - CBS News

• Federal Trade Commission v. Meta Platforms, Inc. - Wikipedia.

• Meta Threatened With CFPB Lawsuit Over Financial Product Ads

• Federal agency investigating how Meta uses consumer financial data for advertising

• 1.2 billion euro fine for Facebook as a result of EDPB binding decision | European Data Protection Board

• Meta accused of ‘massive, illegal’ data collection operation by European consumer rights groups | CNN Business

• Commission fines Meta €797.72 million over abusive practices benefitting Facebook Marketplace

• Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them | TechCrunch

• Elon Musk's X fact-checking system delayed Israel corrections for days

• Twitter Files - Wikipedia

• Twitter’s own lawyers refute Elon Musk’s claim that the ‘Twitter Files’ exposed US government censorship | CNN Business

• Twitter's algorithm favours right-leaning politics, research finds

• Facebook’s system approved dehumanizing hate speech | PBS News

• Calling women ‘household objects’ now permitted on Facebook after Meta updated its guidelines | CNN Business

• Metadata 102 — What is communications metadata and why do we care about it?

• WhatsApp Privacy Policy

Episode Image is in the Public Domain

On this episode we cover the Joe Rogan Experience number 2254 with guest Mel Gibson. Mel Gibson is an award-winning actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. 

Show notes:

• How Hernán Cortés Conquered the Aztec Empire | HISTORY

• It’s Not an Alien Astronaut | misfitsandheroes 

• The Bible Says Jesus Was Real. What Other Proof Exists? | HISTORY

• What’s the big mystery behind the Shroud of Turin? | History News | Al Jazeera

• With Sobering Science, Doctor Debunks 12-Step Recovery

• How Much Does Stem Cell Therapy Cost? – Riordan Technologies 

• Health ministry closes Costa Rica's largest stem cell clinic | PET

• The Astronomical Price of Insulin Hurts American Families | RAND

Mel Gibson Image Credit: David Seow

Clips used under fair use from JRE show #2254

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Outro Credit - Soulful Jam Tracks: https://www.youtube.com/@soulfuljamtrack

In this episode we cover James Fox. A UFO investigator and documentary filmmaker. 

Clips used under fair use from JRE show #2246

Show notes:

The Calvine UFO photo: skeptics and believers seek to explain the 30 year old images

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/23/1183976726/titan-titanic-sub-implosion-navy

Intro Credit - AlexGrohl: 

https://www.patreon.com/alexgrohlmusic