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This Dum WeekThis Dum Week 2025-12-14This week's episode covered an extraordinarily wide-ranging discussion touching on geopolitics, AI development, technological dystopia, space-based infrastructure, and the intersection of politics and internet culture. The hosts kicked off with updates on Venezuela's escalating tensions with the United States, including Maduro's defiant response featuring him singing "Don't Worry, Be Happy" at a rally while the US seized Venezuelan oil tankers. The discussion then moved through various AI-related controversies including the sloppification of Disney's brand through partnerships with OpenAI, police departments using AI to write reports, and the proliferation of unsafe apps targeting teenagers.
The centerpiece of the...
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Episode Summary
In this expansive episode of This Dum Week, Dr. RollerGator and Alexandros Marinos navigate through an array of bizarre and concerning stories that characterize the modern information landscape. Opening with a humorous examination of seemingly coordinated animal attacks across America—including a drunk raccoon, an aggressive squirrel, and an eagle dropping a cat through a car windshield—the hosts use levity to introduce deeper themes about surveillance, institutional competence, and the expanding role of AI in society.
The episode transitions into more serious territory with updates on the Larry Summers-Epstein scan...
2025-12-083h 09This Dum WeekThis Dum Week 2025-11-30In this episode of "This Dum Week," hosts Dr. RollerGator and Alexandros Marinos explore the increasingly dystopian landscape of artificial intelligence before diving into other troubling developments. The show opens with an extensive "Traces of AI Dystopia" segment covering multiple AI-related scandals and concerns: a 60 Minutes investigation into Anthropic's autonomous vending machine AI called Claudius, revelations about Grok AI's sycophantic treatment of Elon Musk, a massive data breach exposing users of the Secret Desires erotic AI chatbot service, Meta's knowing exploitation of scam advertisements for billions in revenue, and MIT's Iceberg Index study predicting massive AI-driven job displacement.
2025-12-012h 52This Dum WeekThis Dum Week 2025-11-23Join Gator and Alex for another journey through the most absurd, disturbing, and thought-provoking news stories of the week. This extended episode covers everything from bizarre political scandals and fake hate crimes to geopolitical tensions and the growing influence of AI in our daily lives. The hosts dive deep into Jeffrey Epstein connections that continue to haunt Washington, questionable judicial behavior, and the complex ethics of trusting medical establishments. The show concludes with an extensive exploration of AI dystopia, featuring recalls of AI-powered toys, debates about who should control superintelligence, and revealing segments from major media coverage of AI...
2025-11-242h 51This Dum WeekThis Dum Week 2025-11-16Dr RollerGator opens with the Laura Loomer v. Bill Maher deposition and its immortal “Arby’s in her pants” exchange before using The Song That Doesn’t End to introduce the week’s real loop: the Epstein files—twenty-thousand pages of déjà vu, recycled headlines, and fresh misreadings.
Alex Marinos joins to dissect the Mark Epstein / Steve Bannon / “Trump blowing Bubba” email, the Rumler “talk to boss” thread, and how every new leak becomes a mirror for public illiteracy.
From there the show widens out: congressional cosplay, linguistic limits, colonial economics, scientific retractions, and AI’s coming truth-fatigue.
2025-11-172h 49This Dum WeekThis Dum Week 2025-11-09Hour 1 (0 – 60 min) — Maritime mishap · Louvre looting · GTA 5 · Comey emails · Conspiracy talk
Opening – Western Australia shipping incident:
The show starts with news a plane crash involving the plane's engine falling off.
Art and empire:
A detour to France—Gator thanks a “Frenchy Frenchman” for pronunciation help before giving a mini-update on the Louvre and colonial-era collections.
They recount how crates were over-stuffed with artifacts during imperial transfers: “once you’re in the British Empire, what are they going to do?”
Pop-culture pulse:
They pivot to gaming—Grand Theft Auto V has sold over 220 million units.
2025-11-102h 37This Dum WeekThis Dum Week 2025-11-02This episode moves from to tech power politics (Altman vs Musk, NASA vs SpaceX), then into executive oversight and AI censorship, closing on intellectual property, open-source tools, and epistemic clarity. It’s a dense, fast-moving three hours where each news story is treated as a case study in incentives and institutional failure rather than headline fodder.
Hour 1 (0 – 60 min) — OpenAI vs Elon · Starship and NASA · Executive ambiguity
OpenAI’s for-profit turn: They trace how OpenAI’s shift to a capped-profit model was justified by “we need more compute.” Marinos explains that Google and Meta were already profit-driven, so Altman’s pivot i...
2025-11-032h 43This Dum WeekThis Dum Week 2025-10-26A messy apology tour kicks off a deep dive into how past posts, symbols, and endorsements collide with modern media incentives. The guys trace the timeline of a political flare-up (including old Reddit comments, a high-profile endorsement, and the “I just found out” defense), then widen the lens: when “safety standards” become market moats, what the Fourth Amendment means in a cloud world, how protests and financial rails intersect, and why open standards keep getting “embraced and extended.” They close with outage fragility, Ubuntu’s Rust shift, Bose’s cloud-feature shutdown for legacy gear, and the principle that helpers should never sit...
2025-10-272h 47This Dum WeekThis Dum Week 2025-10-19A fast-moving, three-hour ride through undercover “sting” cases and entrapment, George Santos’ ever-growing fabulism, spyware and state surveillance (hello, Pegasus/NSO), 2024–25 election machinery fights (Dominion, audits, paper trails), foreign-policy whiplash (Ukraine/Israel), and a grab-bag of culture-war oddities—stitched together with the show’s trademark skepticism about institutions, prosecutors, and media narratives.
Hour 1 — Stings, lies, and the prosecution mindset
Undercover stings & entrapment: The show opens with a deep dive into a case where an undercover officer allegedly nudged a target by asking him to “bring condoms.” The hosts walk through what is and isn’t entrapment: government inducement vs. predi...
2025-10-202h 47This Dum WeekThis Dum Week 2025-10-12The show opens with Gator urging listeners to help This Dum Week beat Chelsea Clinton’s new foundation-funded podcast, “That Can’t Be True,” in Spotify ratings — a tongue-in-cheek promo that sets the tone for another politically surreal episode.
From there, the hosts jump straight into a Discord identity-verification breach, where 1.5 terabytes of user ID photos and selfies were stolen through Zendesk’s appeal system. The discussion widens into a debate over the explosion of outsourced KYC services, data-retention “appeals loopholes,” and how regulatory compliance creates sprawling new attack surfaces.
Next, they tackle the Hunter Biden Romania la...
2025-10-133h 02This Dum WeekThis Dum Week 2025-10-05This week on This Dum Week, Gator and Alex take a global tour through culture, politics, technology, and outright absurdity — from cousin-marriage controversies in Britain to fake statues of Trump and Epstein, from abortion pill approvals to AI-driven network sabotage.
The episode opens with the hosts breaking down the NHS’s genomics blog controversy: a post asking whether the UK government should ban first-cousin marriage. The debate reignited moral panic and culture-war takes, but Gator and Alex dig into the anthropology — the genetic trade-offs, historical justifications, and why cousin marriage has persisted in many cultures. The conversation unexpe...
2025-10-063h 13This Dum WeekThis Dum Week 2025-09-28This week’s This Dum Week delivers one of the most sprawling episodes yet, as Gator and Alex navigate a chaotic blend of scam culture, censorship battles, Russiagate retrospectives, courtroom drama, health controversies, and AI dystopias.
The show opens on a satirical note with Tai Lopez, the “here in my garage” Lamborghini influencer, whose empire of rented cars and bookshelves has finally attracted SEC scrutiny. From there, they pivot to Jimmy Kimmel’s sudden suspension and reinstatement, unpacking how affiliate power struggles between Sinclair and Nexstar expose the fragility of late-night TV and the blurry boundary between governme...
2025-09-292h 34This Dum WeekJames Comey: Professional Son of a BitchWith the breaking news of James Comey’s indictment, we revisit a February 9, 2025 episode of This Dum Week, where Gator and Alex reviewed the tangled history of Russiagate, strategic leaking, and the political chaos of Trump’s first months in office. The conversation traces how Comey, Benjamin Wittes, and others helped seed media narratives through leaked memos and “tiny cannon booms,” shaping public perception of Trump as compromised even when investigations said otherwise.
The hosts reconstruct the Michael Flynn saga, from late 2016 calls with Ambassador Kislyak, to the Logan Act theories floated in the press, to Flynn’s eventual...
2025-09-261h 27This Dum WeekThis Dum Week 2025-09-21This episode of This Dum Week blends pop culture weirdness, political fallout, legal drama, and deep dives into free speech and radicalization. Gator and Alex open with a lighter segment on rising musician D4VD, whose missing Tesla was discovered with a body in the trunk — eerily echoing his own lyrics. But the humor quickly gives way to heavier material as the hosts revisit the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, exploring false confessions, sloppy reporting, and conspiracy churn.
A Utah man with a history of hoax threats falsely claimed responsibility, later facing child pornography charges; Reuters misq...
2025-09-222h 26This Dum WeekCharlie Kirk Special Episode, This Dum Week 2025-09-14This week’s episode of This Dum Week is split into two very different halves. The first half plays like a mini-documentary: a chronological walk through America’s political and cultural flashpoints from 2017 to today, charting how campus free-speech battles, meme wars, violent protests, Proud Boys clashes, antifa counter-mobilizations, and escalating online radicalization built the atmosphere that culminated in the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The hosts recount the aftermath of his death — from shockwaves inside Turning Point USA to the polarized reactions across media and political spheres — grounding the retrospective in key moments that shaped the current climate.
Mini-D...
2025-09-153h 28This Dum WeekThis Dum Week 2025-09-07In this episode, Gator and Alex return with another “severely dumb” week, covering everything from political scandals to global security debates, and high-profile legal sagas. The hosts mix satire with serious analysis, taking listeners through stories that reveal the absurdity of power, media, and culture.
The show opens with updates on their podcast availability across major platforms, before diving into Biden’s final weeks in office, including controversies over pardons, auto-pen signatures, and allegations of chaos inside his administration. From there, they explore defense spending, America’s global military posture, and the endless cycle of drug enforcement and supp...
2025-09-072h 27This Dum WeekThis Dum Week 2025-08-31In this late-summer episode, Gator and Alex dive into a chaotic mix of surreal satire, shifting health policies, and cultural controversies. Serious discussions on vaccines, public health, and political maneuvering inside major agencies.
Key threads include the monkeypox vaccination rollout, the reshuffling of leadership at the CDC, and debates around hepatitis B prevention. The hosts also tackle Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” initiative, which blends a popular food reform agenda with his highly divisive vaccine views. They spotlight public backlash, media narratives, and the growing tension between scientific credibility and political messaging.
Late...
2025-08-312h 36This Dum WeekThis Dum Week 2025-06-29This episode of This Dum Week opens with a shaky technical start before Gator and Alex hit their stride, covering a wide mix of politics, tech hype, culture, and internet oddities. The show blends reflective dives into historical scandals, contemporary tech controversies, and satirical exposés of modern influencers.
The first part revisits how media narratives take shape, with a detour into the Dan Rather “typewriter memo” scandal during George W. Bush’s reelection campaign — framed as an early case of internet fact-checking and citizen journalism. From there, the hosts leap into today’s equivalent: Elon Musk’s empire of c...
2025-06-293h 15This Dum WeekThis Dum Week 2025-02-16In this sprawling episode, Gator (suffering from laryngitis) and Alex weave together global drug debates, Elon Musk’s Doge controversies, FBI intrigue, government corruption, and culture war battles into another “dum week.” The show opens with satire and riffs on cocaine before diving into Colombia’s president comparing cocaine to whiskey — sparking discussion on global drug legalization and U.S. hypocrisy.
The conversation then shifts to Elon Musk, Doge, and accusations of massive government data theft. The hosts pick apart the “plugging devices” narrative, the lack of technical evidence, and how vague language from politicians and journalists feeds paranoia...
2025-02-163h 25This Dum WeekThis Dum Week 2025-02-09In this episode, Gator and Alex take on a week filled with global controversy, political spectacle, and swirling narratives around tech and government power. The show opens with Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s provocative claim that cocaine is “no worse than whiskey” and could be sold like wine if legalized, sparking debate about global drug policy. From there, the focus shifts to Elon Musk, Doge, and allegations of massive data theft — a narrative the hosts dismantle with both skepticism and humor.
They explore how language and framing fuel public fears, from claims of Musk “plugging in devices” to the exagg...
2025-02-093h 25This Dum WeekThis Dum Week 2025-02-02In this episode, Gator and Alex cover another jam-packed week of politics, tech drama, and cultural absurdities. They open with surreal moments from the DNC chair race, segue into the symbolism of the Doomsday Clock, and then dive into political theater surrounding Trump’s inauguration, Biden’s exit, and legal showdowns. Along the way, they weave together conspiracy chatter, billionaire power moves, media controversies, and the strange intersection of tech platforms with government influence.
Topics Discussed
Politics & Government
DNC chair race and oddball candidate moments
Biden’s presidency in retrospect and Trump’s second i...
2025-02-023h 00This Dum WeekThis Dum Week 2025-01-26In this wide-ranging episode of This Dumb Week (Jan 26, 2025), Gator and Alex unpack the whirlwind of U.S. political change, global intrigue, and tech controversies. The conversation kicks off with reflections on Joe Biden’s historically low approval ratings as he exits office, setting the stage for Donald Trump’s return to power. The hosts examine Biden’s controversial last moves, Trump’s inaugural address, and the legal strategy behind preemptive pardons.
From there, they dive into tech scandals and security crises, including CrowdStrike’s role in the DNC hack, and tie them into broader narratives of media spin...
2025-01-263h 27This Dum WeekThis Dum Week 2025-01-19In this episode, Gator and Alex cover a sprawling set of political, financial, and cultural stories that made the week “exceptionally dum.” They open with reflections on the final days of Joe Biden’s presidency — from TikTok bans and constitutional “hard forks” to speculation over last-minute pardons for Sam Bankman-Fried. The conversation then moves into the mechanics of fraud, investor complacency, and historical financial crises like the Volkswagen short squeeze.
The middle section centers on Trump’s near-assassination: the significance of the ear wound, debates about whether it was shrapnel or a bullet, and how symbolism is wielded in pol...
2025-01-194h 27This Dum WeekThis Dum Week 2025-01-12In this episode, Gator and Alex sift through what they call an “exceptionally dumb week,” unpacking stories of devastation, resilience, and policy failures. The conversation begins with empathy for communities who have lost homes, memories, and livelihoods to massive wildfires, before broadening into a sharp critique of government preparedness and response. The hosts highlight both the human cost of tragedy and the political blame games that follow.
Topics Discussed
An “exceptionally dumb week” filled with tragic and bizarre stories
Empathy for families losing homes, possessions, and decades of memories
The political temptation to blame vi...
2025-01-123h 15This Dum WeekThis Dum Week 2025-01-05In this week’s episode, Gator and Alex regroup after a rocky start to tackle a whirlwind of news stories and online narratives. The discussion centers on the Tesla Cybertruck, which quickly became the focus of wild speculation following its involvement in headline-grabbing incidents. From there, the hosts explore the connections being drawn between recent attacks, government agencies, drones, and UAP conspiracies—particularly highlighting Bret Weinstein’s cryptic commentary.
Topics Discussed
Technical hiccups restarting the Twitter Space
Cybertruck incidents and the narratives built around them
Symbolism of Trump Tower in recent events
Bret...
2025-01-052h 43This Dum WeekThis Dum Week 2024-12-15In this episode, Gator and Alex host a lively conversation that moves between serious analysis and playful speculation. The discussion begins with casual banter before diving into Google’s latest quantum computing announcement and its sweeping claims about the multiverse. The hosts push back on the hype, teasing apart the real computational progress from the exaggerated narratives, while sprinkling in humor about parallel universes and tech culture.
Topics Discussed
Google’s quantum computing breakthrough
Claims about “proof of the multiverse”
Distinguishing computational achievements from speculative implications
Risks of overhyping scientific milestones
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Calmversationss05e30 | Decoding "Stochastic Terrorism" & Other Games of the Ruling Class, with DR. ROLLERGATOR and JAMES LINDSAYJames Lindsay of New Discourses and DR. ROLLERGATOR, rightful President of the United States, join me to discuss media narratives and group dynamics within Elite circles of media, academia, and policy-making. This is an information rich episode!
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2022-11-302h 59Calmversationss05e16 | Everyone's Conspiring, All of the Time, with DR. ROLLERGATORDR. ROLLERGATOR was making waves on twitter until he crossed a line. (A very silly line, but still.) His twitter persona was quirky and brash, but when I looked into his essays, I found a deep thinker who could translate complexity into coherency, on a number of issues. In this discussion, we talk about media narratives and power politics and how he sees conspiracies everywhere, while still not being a conspiracy theorist.
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The Healthy Rebellion RadioSubstack Goodness | Salty Talk 036 | THRRSalty Talk is a special edition of Healthy Rebellion Radio. Each week on Salty Talk Robb will do a deep dive into current health and performance news, mixed with an occasional Salty conversation with movers and shakers in the world of research, performance, health, and longevity. For the full the video presentation of this episode and to be a part of the conversation, join us in The Healthy Rebellion online community. WARNING: These episodes may get “salty” with the occasional expletive. Please Subscribe and Review: Apple Podcasts | RSS Submit your questions for the podcast here...
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DarkHorse Podcast#90: Weave Well Enough Alone (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)In this 90th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.In this episode, we discuss our essay, “On Driving SARS-CoV2 Extinct: Why We Need a Multi-Pronged Approach.” We discuss some of the misinformation that is circulating about…all of this. We then discuss sex and gender: beginning with an excerpt from chapter 7 of A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century—Sex and Gender—we discuss the division of labor, the effect of agriculture on gender roles, what sex and...
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