Latest / The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan / Tylenol Murders Mystery, Jefferson DNA, Brain Implants & AI Snacks | TMI Ep 464
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- 0:00you So happy Thursday, September 24th, 2026.
- 3:53I'm Manila Chan. That'd be Ted Rall. You're tuned
- 3:55into the Ted Manila Information Show, TMI for
- 3:57short, because we bring you way too much information.
- 4:00On today's show, a lot of weird stories, but
- 4:06that's what you get here on the TMI show. Possibly,
- 4:10Ted, very possibly, the 1982 Tylenol murders
- 4:17cold case. potentially solved Very cool, though
- 4:22Yeah, it's very what a weird story if true if
- 4:25true if it if if all the evidence is correct
- 4:29Then a historical piece that I think Robbie will
- 4:33probably weigh in on this one a lock of Thomas
- 4:36Jefferson's hair was Recently used to confirm
- 4:41a lot of things that we kind of already knew
- 4:45we all kind of knew but But now, you know, with
- 4:48all the DNA evidence and stuff, Maury Povich
- 4:51pops up and says, you are the daddy. You are
- 4:57the father. And then I'm going to I'm going to
- 5:01go ahead and just put this out there, Ted, this
- 5:05brain computer interface thing that's happening.
- 5:07And it's not Neuralink. It's something else.
- 5:10But this is the future of our. Future cyborg
- 5:15existence. I think we're all gonna turn into
- 5:17cyborgs. I think that's fair to say I don't know
- 5:20if Ted and I will be around and Robbie I mean,
- 5:22we're all pretty old so Hopefully not It's not
- 5:27gonna be for us. So, I don't know all you Jen's
- 5:29ears and younger my kids whenever welcome to
- 5:32your cyborg future And last we'll talk about
- 5:36about some food another AI I don't know intervention
- 5:44Maybe is the right way to say But I think it's
- 5:48I think this is actually kind of a good use of
- 5:51AI Maybe if you use it, right is that people
- 5:54are changing their diet habits not only because
- 5:57of the GLP ones But because now people essentially
- 6:02have access To their own dietitian if it's used
- 6:06the right way. I think that's kind of a kind
- 6:07of cool kind of for AI Let's limit the use on
- 6:11AI. May have it coach you on diet, make some
- 6:16thumbnails for your YouTube accounts. Leave it
- 6:20at that. I'm going to say leave it at that. And
- 6:24before we jump into the all the news, Ted, I
- 6:27don't know if you're in New York this week because
- 6:29it looks like you're someplace else. But if you
- 6:32be in New York, you got to tell me, does it does
- 6:34it smell a little sulfurous today? I'll let you
- 6:41know. I'll let you know tomorrow. Just do a little
- 6:44sniff around town. Like because, you know, Benjamin
- 6:51Netanyahu is speaking at the UNGA today. Oh,
- 6:53right, right, right, right. Yeah. So I'm wondering
- 6:56if the fumes have gotten to you yet. Well, that
- 6:59could reach that could reach way up into Canada
- 7:01and overcome the wildfire smells. I hope he's
- 7:08assaulting Canadian with his sulfuric, acidy
- 7:12smell, because he'll be sleeping today. Yeah,
- 7:15and he's the moderate one. Don't forget. Well,
- 7:18Kizzy's very happy. There's no Benjamin Dan Yahoo
- 7:21smell here, and we've got our first snow of the
- 7:23season. So she is very happy, very pleased. She
- 7:28woke up this morning and said, Robbie. Like,
- 7:31is it sitting? Oh, yeah. It's sticking. How much
- 7:34are we talking about? Maybe maybe an eighth of
- 7:39an inch. I mean not not a lot by minutes. It's
- 7:43a good dusting. Yeah, so it may be gone for lunch.
- 7:46But yeah, she's happy. She's like finally Robbie,
- 7:48but because he loves wintertime, by the way.
- 7:51Oh God, that's snow in my favorite. In September,
- 7:56yeah, but but we're getting a nor 'easter and
- 8:00the temperatures here have already cooled down
- 8:02into the 60s. So you know for me. weak ass Californian.
- 8:05I'm like, Oh my God, get a coat. No, get a coat.
- 8:12It's under 60. Uh, so yeah, this is a weird climate
- 8:16stuff, but you know, climate change is not real
- 8:18Ted. So it's, it's just, um, all right. Let's,
- 8:24let's get to all the news. All right. So first
- 8:33things first, this Tylenol story. So for some
- 8:3844 years now, investigators referred to him only
- 8:42as the Unknown Wanderer. The well -dressed man
- 8:46found dead inside a Catholic church in Boise,
- 8:49Idaho, back on December 4th, 1982. He swallowed
- 8:54cyanide, emptied his wallet, and carried a note
- 8:57signed with this fake name, William L. Toomey.
- 9:02He also had $1 ,900 in cash, so it was 19 $100
- 9:06bills to be exact, and a set of like 30 keys.
- 9:11So one might think, you know, he was like a maintenance
- 9:13man or janitor. He had 30 keys, but no nothing
- 9:18to identify him. Now DNA testing and some old
- 9:22fashioned detective gumshoe work have identified
- 9:25him as Dr. Matthew Francis Betkuski, a chemist.
- 9:31with a disturbing interest in poison. The breakthrough
- 9:35came after a detective re -examined one of Batusky's
- 9:39keys. Its markings led investigators to a property
- 9:42in Jacksonville, Florida, and eventually to a
- 9:46surviving relative, his brother, over in Los
- 9:49Angeles. DNA confirmed the family connection.
- 9:52But identifying Batusky opened a much darker
- 9:56question. Could he have been connected to those
- 9:59still unsolved Chicago Tylenol murders. Three
- 10:04months before his death, seven people around
- 10:06Chicago were killed after taking extra -strength
- 10:09Tylenol capsules filled with potassium cyanide.
- 10:14Former colleagues reportedly remembered Betkusky
- 10:17discussing the perfect crime. So I guess he spoke
- 10:22to colleagues about fantasizing about the perfect
- 10:25crime. Also, cyanide. and how poison could be
- 10:49placed inside over -the -counter capsules. Remember,
- 10:51this is 1982, guys, so it was a simpler time.
- 10:55The pills didn't have the, nothing, everything
- 10:57did not have like the extra layer of like sealing
- 10:59inside capsules. Things were different. Yeah,
- 11:01when you open, yeah, I mean, look, this is like,
- 11:05this incident revolutionized the way that consumer
- 11:08products are distributed and packaged, right?
- 11:12I mean, now, you have to push to open the the
- 11:16first of all this the a lot of these things are
- 11:19in a box that's wrapped in cellophane no cellophane
- 11:22back then um you in back then often no box uh
- 11:26you now you have to push down and turn left Right
- 11:29to counterclockwise to open you didn't have to
- 11:32do that back then And uh, it just opened which
- 11:35for old people with like arthritis Yeah, was
- 11:38a godsend back then right? It was much easier
- 11:40to open certainly didn't have the seal on top
- 11:43And when you open now when you open it, it has
- 11:45the little uh condom, you know the little the
- 11:48little The little membrane of plastic up on top
- 11:51that you have to sometimes on some things use
- 11:53a knife to break it Oh, yeah, because like your
- 11:56nail won't do it. Um, so all that shit is new.
- 11:59It's it's contributed to You know god how many
- 12:02god knows how many thousands of tons of landfill
- 12:05crap, um, you know I mean it's it has changed
- 12:08the way that we live in the same way that richard
- 12:11reed the shoe bomber the shoe bomber The way
- 12:13that we fly Yeah, he was the shoe bomber of that
- 12:17era for consumer over -the -counter products.
- 12:20So investigators also found a hand -drawn map
- 12:23of Chicago, which is weird. Photographs. He couldn't
- 12:28afford the AAA version that he bought at the
- 12:31gas station back then? Tomicide or whatever.
- 12:33Yeah, I don't know. So he drew a map of Chicago.
- 12:37He's a cartographer, I guess, on the side. And
- 12:40there were photographs showing him in the area
- 12:42in 1981. and he had a bottle of homemade cyanide
- 12:46among his belongings on his person. That last
- 12:49part, the map doesn't mean shit to me, but the
- 12:54homemade cyanide, who has that? Back in 1982,
- 12:58you couldn't Google how to do it. You couldn't
- 13:00AI how to do it. Making cyanide is actually a
- 13:02really simple chemical process. Oh, boy, Ted.
- 13:05We're not going to tell people. I'm not going
- 13:07to describe how to do it, but let's just face
- 13:09it to say. It is basically about as easy as a
- 13:13chemical reaction as there is Really? So, you
- 13:16know, this certainly gets the true crime antenna
- 13:19folks twitching Like I'm sure people cannot wait
- 13:22to produce brand new podcasts about this But
- 13:25police are not here's the weird part. They're
- 13:27not actually naming dr Butkuski as an actual
- 13:32suspect the cyanide found among belongings was
- 13:36sodium cyanide The Tylenol killer used potassium
- 13:40cyanide. Investigators also cannot place Bacchusky
- 13:44in Chicago when those murders actually occurred
- 13:46in September of 1982. Yeah, but how could they?
- 13:50It's been 44 years. I mean, it's not like there
- 13:56was TikTok and he posted a video of himself in
- 14:01Chicago. And I would say even the store that
- 14:04the stuff was placed at, If you see the hotel
- 14:08there was even a video probably out of business
- 14:11that he stayed at and like certainly They're
- 14:13not keeping guest records being dated back 44
- 14:16years and most stores back then didn't even have
- 14:19like surveillance video No, you just they didn't
- 14:22do that back then So the evidence is really don't
- 14:26keep it. They'd certainly wouldn't have that
- 14:28all those old, what would they even be, Betamax
- 14:31tapes from 44 years ago? Not even like VHS. I
- 14:34don't know. So obviously there's some, a string
- 14:38of evidence, but it's not really conclusive.
- 14:40Authorities have shared their findings with police
- 14:43in Chicago and Arlington Heights where the Tylenol
- 14:46investigation remains open. So it is still, it's
- 14:50cold, but it's an active investigation because
- 14:52the trails have led on hold. It's super fascinating.
- 14:55One mystery has finally been solved whether it
- 14:57unlocks another remains very much an open question
- 15:00So there are people obviously like like these
- 15:04true crime hunter people are really really They
- 15:09really believe like this this is the guy I mean
- 15:11it would make sense right timing the dude is
- 15:13a kid sounds good. Yeah, the dude was a chemist
- 15:17so Lots of people I mean lots of people I know
- 15:22a lot of street chemists, man Don't. I mean,
- 15:27all I'm saying is, I mean, come on. I mean, how
- 15:30many how many working chemists are there in the
- 15:32US? There's got to be tens of thousands, hundreds
- 15:35of thousands. I mean, you know. It just seems
- 15:39like it would be a very I mean, it definitely
- 15:45sounds like this is a guy who's well well worth
- 15:48investigating. Why won't they even name him as
- 15:50a suspect? I mean, I mean, not that you have
- 15:52to. You have to know a lot Well because I mean
- 15:56because no when when you name someone so, you
- 15:59know They they have different they like the person
- 16:02of interest is a lower is a lower rate a lower
- 16:06status of suspect than a suspect When they say
- 16:09it's a suspect the cops internally at the police
- 16:13department and the investigators the detectives
- 16:15They are pretty sure they have their man, right?
- 16:19A person of interest is someone they would very
- 16:22much like to talk to and think it's probably
- 16:25their man. This person obviously hasn't even
- 16:28arisen to a person of interest. This is a strong
- 16:31lead, right? It's what this is at this stage.
- 16:35Where would it lead to if this guy weren't it?
- 16:39If they would lead to nothing, then it would
- 16:42be like you're back at square one, right? Don't
- 16:50even know where to begin because things are so
- 16:52there's so many unsolved crimes from the late
- 16:5570s and early 80s Like we still don't know who
- 16:58killed aton pates, right? Like that's no Although
- 17:02the the the authorities believe they have their
- 17:05man, right? The yeah, but the building superintendent
- 17:10There's also DB Cooper that case remains unsolved
- 17:16the notorious hijacker There's a lot of, there's
- 17:20a lot of unsolved serial killings. So, yeah,
- 17:25no, there's, I mean, you know, it was an era.
- 17:28It was a good time to be a serial killer back
- 17:29then, Ted. It's a rougher, it's a rougher time
- 17:31now with, I mean, I think it's a terrible time
- 17:34now to be a criminal. You know, there's cameras
- 17:38everywhere. Lock cameras everywhere. Lock cameras
- 17:40everywhere. I mean, think about... I mean, the
- 17:43Boise guy, we can now call him the killer, the
- 17:46University of Idaho killer, right? Right. Smart
- 17:49guy, criminologist, nevertheless got busted because
- 17:54even though he was in a rural area where I'm
- 17:56sure there are like no street cameras, no flock
- 17:59cameras, right? There probably are now, but...
- 18:03People had ring cameras, though. Yeah, but these
- 18:06guys, the victims in this case didn't. They didn't,
- 18:10but a ring camera... caught his car like in the
- 18:13parking lot. That's true. And also he brought
- 18:17his phone. Right. So he so his phone was triangulated
- 18:21in the area casing the house before before the
- 18:24crime. So it's you know, it's it's the truth
- 18:28is the true victims these days are psychotic
- 18:31criminals and they feel sorry for them. Yeah.
- 18:36I think when they have their annual summit. Who
- 18:38Manila? Who prays for the psychotic criminals?
- 18:43Who cries for the psychotic criminals? That's
- 18:45true. I would say they need to bring this up
- 18:48at their annual summit, like in a cave somewhere
- 18:51where they have their, they got to talk about
- 18:54this and 20 stories below ground. Yeah. Like
- 18:57how, you know, when they're Dr. Evil lair, how
- 19:00they're going to, how, how can they continue
- 19:02their crime spree, their murderous spree? Given
- 19:07all of these cameras, ring doorbells everywhere.
- 19:11What do you do? Yeah, the surveillance state
- 19:14has made it very difficult. Big Brother has made
- 19:16it really difficult to be a serial killer. So
- 19:20I don't know, this one's just very, very weird.
- 19:22But I got to say, I'm not glad that this happened
- 19:27in order to trigger manufacturers putting extra
- 19:31precautions, like putting extra layers of Cleanliness
- 19:36and security over the products because Ted there
- 19:40there are again. We're talking about, you know
- 19:42security footage there are numerous incidents
- 19:47of Weirdos and even celebrities Ariana Grande
- 19:51that brings me to that memory of her on the news
- 19:55several years ago She and like a little boyfriend
- 19:58or her gaggle of friends were I don't know where
- 20:00they were like I don't know. I want to say like
- 20:03in Florida or something. And they went into like
- 20:05a bakery and while they were waiting, they rang
- 20:08the bell thing and waited for service. No one
- 20:10was in the front. She started licking some of
- 20:13the baked goods and putting it back. That's right.
- 20:17Well, I figured that she that's probably the
- 20:20last time she ate the crazy, the crazy gene rubbing
- 20:23off from Pete Davidson. Oh, oh, oh, that's right.
- 20:27Yeah, maybe. Maybe but but see this is this is
- 20:32why I'm okay with people putting You know, I'm
- 20:35a little I'm a smidge of a germaphobe as you
- 20:39know I would wipe down like before every day
- 20:41before I did the the sputnik show I would sometimes
- 20:45the cameras would catch me Before I sat down
- 20:49to mic up To do our radio show I would wipe down
- 20:54everything including the microphones and whatever
- 20:57because I'm a little Bit of a germaphobe, but
- 21:00when you see videos like Ariana Grande licking
- 21:03pastries and putting it back Or imagine what
- 21:07other psycho weirdos out there are at Walmart
- 21:10opening up ice cream bins and like Manila I know
- 21:16you're a bit of a germaphobe and what this should
- 21:18do is remind you that all throughout your life
- 21:22You have consumed other people's spittle urine
- 21:26and feces and you're fine and you're fine and
- 21:31the truth and so really truly you should relax
- 21:34it's sort of like when I when I read about that
- 21:36is something a New Yorker says because you guys
- 21:39live among the feces and the like true the peat
- 21:42on handrails in the met in the subway like true
- 21:45you guys live amongst that every day I don't
- 21:48forget the the the the various secretions the
- 21:52sperm the vaginal fluids, who knows what. Yeah,
- 21:56no, all over the new, every, every disease that
- 21:58you want to find is in the New York subway. I
- 22:00guarantee you. It's all, it's all caked up. Like,
- 22:03yeah. Like if you walk on the platform of the
- 22:06subway and you notice that the ceiling is a little
- 22:08low, but when it was built a hundred years ago,
- 22:11the floor was actually two inches lower. You're
- 22:15walking on two inches of a century's worth of
- 22:19dry caked spittle, jizz, gum. gross food, dog
- 22:25feces, rat turds. Ted is a New Yorker. He's a
- 22:29New Yorker. So he's like, it's fine. This is
- 22:31humanity. You're going to end up eating spit
- 22:34and boogers. It's good for you. This is why people
- 22:37who grew up on the farm don't get as sick as
- 22:39often. It fortifies you. People should lick the
- 22:45subway rails. When you get down there, you should
- 22:47get down on the ground and go, you know, of course.
- 22:52So this is well, so from you don't want to die
- 22:54like Howard Hughes, you know So for me, I'm not
- 22:59glad that seven people in Chicago died innocently
- 23:02three of whom were from the same family, which
- 23:04is weird You were you were like a wee one, right?
- 23:07I was a baby. I was literally a I was a toddler
- 23:10when this happened, you know, and of course The
- 23:14killings are of course are a famous we don't
- 23:16need to go down that rabbit hole because it's
- 23:17well known But just a reminder this was an example
- 23:20Tylenol was always praised and is still pointed
- 23:24to as a great example of corporate crisis response
- 23:27The way that they handled it. They didn't try
- 23:29to cover it up They they decide they they advised
- 23:33the public that they were recalling they weren't
- 23:36going to do like a fire They recalled every single
- 23:39bottle of Tylenol in the world and and destroyed
- 23:43them all and started from scratch and they promised
- 23:46they appointed All the shelves in every store
- 23:51blue ribbon panel of people who did not work
- 23:54for the company was appointed to you know supervise
- 23:58this the and and keep the public informed they
- 24:02liaised with the FDA and they invited the FDA
- 24:05to help them make sure that the Supply was safe
- 24:08and certainly they took a hit but over the years
- 24:11Tylenol was basically came back, and obviously
- 24:16it's a very trusted brand now in large part because
- 24:19of that. No, except for how Robbie, who worked
- 24:23in the medical field for a decade, except for
- 24:27how it's toxic to your liver. Apart from that,
- 24:31that's great. Well, I'm an aspirin man myself,
- 24:33but what can I say? And ibuprofen. Yeah, they've
- 24:39got plenty of lucrative deals at the hospitals,
- 24:41right Robbie? That's what you you told us. Oh,
- 24:43yeah Well, I mean it's two -pronged Tylenol has
- 24:46less reactions with more medications ibuprofen
- 24:49does so that's part of it There doesn't conflict
- 24:52no chemically with a lot of other medications
- 24:55ibuprofen can but yeah, I mean it's It's all
- 25:00it's all about the money. Seriously. It's but
- 25:03they've got to really regulate about how much
- 25:05is they put on, about how much is it they give
- 25:07you, especially if you are taking other medications
- 25:11that are hard on your liver, because Tylenol
- 25:16will kill you. So see, if it's not the cyanide
- 25:20in the Tylenol. Maybe the cyanide was good for
- 25:25you. So there you go. Well, it did solve the
- 25:30problem because they're no longer hurting. That's
- 25:33true There's no more financial problems, there's
- 25:38no more psychological problems no more anger
- 25:40issues They're not trapped in the two -party
- 25:42trap anymore. So you're saying are you guys advocating
- 25:46for cyanide just to be sold in a bottle is Just
- 25:49put on the shelf. Like I said, it's easy to make
- 25:51it home Wait, there's a couple there's a couple
- 25:57updates breaking news updates Want to I want
- 26:00to share? No, I don't know. I don't think you
- 26:05saw this one. I don't know if you saw this one
- 26:07Okay, okay real quick I need to follow up on
- 26:13a story we did like just a couple weeks ago about
- 26:16former senator from Arizona Kristen Sinema you
- 26:19guys remember the The the senator is being sued
- 26:23by a North Carolina soon -to -be ex -wife for
- 26:27the home wrecker law California because Kristin
- 26:30Sinema was banging her then bodyguard North Carolina
- 26:34home wrecker law Yeah, North Carolina home wrecker
- 26:38law. Look it up. So the body the bodyguard was
- 26:40married She was banging her bodyguard. The wife
- 26:43found out suing Kristin Sinema for like $75 ,000.
- 26:47So The breaking news here is now the guy the
- 26:51bodyguard that she was having an affair with
- 26:54It was apparently I don't know, beefing now with
- 26:58cinema because cinema is like, I'm going to show
- 27:00all the text message. And she's like, I got nothing.
- 27:03I'm not nothing to hide. And he's, I guess, pissed
- 27:06off. She was out of town. He went to her house
- 27:10in Arizona, destroyed the place through a fucking
- 27:14maniac, threw her expensive artwork into the
- 27:18pool. Like we're talking hundreds of thousands
- 27:20of dollars worth of. Like well, he called her
- 27:23on the phone and he was like I'm gonna throw
- 27:25another one in And she's like and she's like
- 27:29fuck you That's she's kind of like yeah, she's
- 27:33kind of I guess but she I guess She's spicy and
- 27:37kind of but she though also apparently she had
- 27:39all sorts of high -end liquor that he was breaking
- 27:41too. Yeah So she, I mean, she's a, I don't think
- 27:44she has any kids. So she's, you know, like living
- 27:46it up at 50 years old. She's, you know, she's
- 27:50omnivorous, bisexual. Yeah. So she's just living
- 27:53it up and he, he knew when she was out of town
- 27:56and went there and, and is like, Oh, you're going
- 27:59to reveal our dirty laundry. Like screw you.
- 28:02And started fucking up her house. Yeah. Well,
- 28:08I think he was threatening too. Yeah. Well, I
- 28:12what I'm unclear on what he want what the bodyguard
- 28:16wanted her to post to X I don't they they won't
- 28:20reveal that but he's been arrested and apparently
- 28:23When they were I'm gonna rain him in this matter.
- 28:26I mean you fuck that guy Yeah, that's that's
- 28:30not right The so the guy when they were about
- 28:33to arraign him He didn't actually stand for his
- 28:37arraignment Ted because apparently as they were
- 28:41escorting him into the courtroom He became violent
- 28:45and started a fist fight in the hallway So he
- 28:51didn't even I don't know with who I don't know
- 28:52if he was like fighting with bailiffs or I don't
- 28:55I don't know he started a fist fight in the hallway
- 28:58so he didn't actually make it into the courtroom
- 29:01for his arraignment so he's still behind bars
- 29:04in Arizona right now um yeah Looney Tunes dude
- 29:08but the guy is a is an army veteran I think of
- 29:10his army he's a veteran he served two tours of
- 29:14duty in the Middle East he claims to be suffering
- 29:16from PTSD but it seems like he's the one who
- 29:19causes PTSD to Kristen Sinema So he's a little
- 29:24wackadoo and violent. Yeah, clearly. So there
- 29:32you go. That's that update. I mean, she's no
- 29:35longer on Capitol Hill. I don't know. Don't forget
- 29:37the... Jaws and again, we have another update
- 29:39too. And this one has a personal angle for you,
- 29:46Manila. So the... A federal judge just ordered
- 29:51yesterday ordered the trump administration to
- 29:54reissue press passes to the white house to represent
- 29:58the white house correspondence from cnn ms now
- 30:01and politico the Reporters showed up today to
- 30:06reclaim to get to get to get their passes back
- 30:08And have been turned away in defiance of the
- 30:12judge's order Well I didn't know that last part
- 30:20that they were turned on because I know the judge
- 30:22came down with saying You got to let them in
- 30:25and then we'll have our day in court. But for
- 30:27the time being you got to let them in Yeah, but
- 30:30now they're trying to get in and literally it's
- 30:31a standoff and the networks have asked for an
- 30:34emergency ex parte hearing with the with the
- 30:37with the judge the I suspect this is not Trumpian
- 30:44intransigence. I suspect it's Trumpian post -doge
- 30:48understaffing incompetence that has caused basically
- 30:52the press passes not to be immediately reactivated
- 30:55the way they should have been. Ted, question
- 30:58for us. Lauren Boebert versus Kristin Sinema,
- 31:02who is more degenerate? Have you heard about
- 31:04the new accusations about Lauren Boebert? Yes.
- 31:07I have. Let me hit the jaws. Yeah, well, I guess
- 31:09I don't have to hit the jaws. Probably can cut
- 31:10them. Anyway, so Lauren Boebert. She denies the
- 31:14claims that she's banging her staffers as like
- 31:16a bonus. Ted, I didn't know she was under 40.
- 31:19I guess she's turning 40. I mean, I would have
- 31:23guessed she was 44. I thought she was my age,
- 31:27like mid 40s, mid late 40s. Yeah, she looks older
- 31:31than that. Yeah. Mature. She looks more mature.
- 31:36And she has four children that are a little bit
- 31:38older. Well, that'll make you look older. Yes,
- 31:42but but her kids are like a little bit older.
- 31:44So that's why I always assumed she was like around
- 31:46my age, but she's 39 But anyway, so that's the
- 31:50accusation is that she's also banging her staffers,
- 31:53you know Kristen Sinema banging her bodyguard
- 31:55staff Allegedly Lauren Bobert banging her staff
- 31:59and so Ted You remember? Um, I don't know a year
- 32:03or two ago. Lauren Bobert was like at some Off
- 32:07-broadway show and she was like groping her date
- 32:10like oh, I remember she was more to grow Well,
- 32:15yeah She was in I mean she was administering
- 32:23the filet show is my understanding This was a
- 32:27full house of it was essentially like a Broadway
- 32:30theater, right? It's like a full house Sold out
- 32:36their empty seats. Yeah, so there are people
- 32:39like right next to her No, and but I do like
- 32:45the fact that somebody says no it was a hand
- 32:47job at Beetlejuice. Oh She was doing it with
- 32:50the Democrat though. So she rounded she rounded
- 32:53third She rounded third with her date, but so
- 33:00who's the who's more of the degenerate was the
- 33:02question well Lauren or Kristin? I would say
- 33:07Lauren. Yeah, probably Lauren. Yeah. I think
- 33:11Lauren. But she's also not a home wrecker. Kristin
- 33:15Sinema is the home wrecker. The husband is too.
- 33:18Sounds like that husband is good at wrecking
- 33:21his own things. But he's literally a home wrecker.
- 33:28True, true. The husband is like literally, he
- 33:32wrecked. He wrecked Kristin Sinema's home So
- 33:36he's a complete madman Yeah, so I don't know.
- 33:40That's a tough one. What's up with the crazy
- 33:43ladies in? Congress man like They'd be spicy
- 33:48I guess yeah, I mean like Anna Paulina Luna is
- 33:54that her name Anna Paulina and Luna yeah She's
- 34:02she's spicy and true all the ladies. I don't
- 34:04know. I don't know the dudes are like Chuck Grassley
- 34:0895 years old, right? The women don't have the
- 34:13they don't have what it takes to be spicy anymore
- 34:15Yeah, the the men in Congress are very blase.
- 34:18The women are all like You're getting like the
- 34:22AOC is the Kristen Sinema is the Lauren Boberts?
- 34:26Yeah, you see a drama too, right she broke up
- 34:28with her she broke up with her boyfriend for
- 34:31a long long time fiance what if although is there
- 34:35such a thing as a long is there such a thing
- 34:37as a oh you think she oh come on i don't know
- 34:41you don't know i know there are there are rumors
- 34:43look kristen cinema just said you know she's
- 34:46the the first openly by congresswoman or congressperson
- 34:51at all um so you know it's It's fine. Maybe she
- 34:55is. Maybe that's why she didn't want to get married.
- 34:57She was engaged for like several years. If you're
- 34:59engaged for more than like a year, do you really
- 35:04want to get married? Well, you're not really.
- 35:07Yeah. I mean, look, this is the Dr. Laura Schlesinger
- 35:09thing where someone would call and they'd say,
- 35:13I'm engaged to this guy. And then she'd be like,
- 35:16do you have a ring and a date? It's like, whoa,
- 35:20no, then you're not engaged. And she's not wrong.
- 35:23If you don't have a ring and a date, you're not
- 35:24engaged. Right. AOC has a ring. You have to at
- 35:27least have a ring. Like, okay, when you first
- 35:30get immediately engaged, okay, the ring should
- 35:33be immediately delivered upon said engagement.
- 35:38The engagement is marked by the delivery of the
- 35:41ring. However, a date should be, I would say,
- 35:45should be forthcoming within the next six months
- 35:47or so. Yeah, no less than that. You should at
- 35:50least like pick a date in the next hundred days.
- 35:53Let's say that's I think that's a generous enough
- 35:55amount of planning a wedding is a very involved
- 35:59and expensive and complicated thing. So I tend
- 36:02to give you You just at least a date you throw
- 36:06up throw a dart at the calendar say, okay We're
- 36:08doing this and you don't have to stay with that
- 36:11date But at least you guys have a target, you
- 36:13know, it could move but at least say AOC never
- 36:16had that is my point And so they split up and
- 36:21she's trying to keep hush -hush about it. That's
- 36:24all weird. Congress is weird. The ladies over
- 36:28there are the spicy ones. Everybody else is like
- 36:33a plain pita bread. There's no flavoring on top.
- 36:37The ladies are like the spicy hummus. So how
- 36:41appropriate for talking about Bibi Netanyahu
- 36:45coming to town. And, you know, I wonder what
- 36:49the UN lunch looks like. I've never been. Do
- 36:55you think like genocidal Zionists are like coxmen?
- 37:02Like, do you think like Bibi Netanyahu, like
- 37:04plows his wife every night? Or Ben Gavir? I bet
- 37:10Ben Gavir is, I'm sure, a closeted sadomasochistic
- 37:18You know dungeon master probably a Probably a
- 37:25gay bottom. I'm thinking Maybe I look can't somebody
- 37:30anybody anybody can you Tweet at us comment at
- 37:36us on YouTube on on the old rumble Can somebody
- 37:42point to a hot Zionist Like a good point to me
- 37:47like one good -looking sexy Zionist man. I'm
- 37:51talking about a man because What's her face the
- 37:54woman that plays a Wonder Woman? Is a sexy male
- 38:05Zionist That is not sexy. He's not sexy. Well
- 38:12-dressed nerd says this story is sexist. Everybody
- 38:14talking about these chicks. What about the congressmen
- 38:16clapping cheeks and diddling little boys? That's
- 38:21a different topic. Well, did y 'all see the breaking
- 38:25news about the Israeli ambassadors to the United
- 38:28States? His son is critically injured. He's not
- 38:31expected to survive. He was injured in a car
- 38:34ramming attack. Our ramming attack in in in the
- 38:37West Bank West Bank West Bank. Yeah. Yeah, so
- 38:40he's an IDF soldier dual citizen. He's an American.
- 38:44Oh What was he what was he what was he doing
- 38:47there? Was he there to say hi to the IDF? Yeah,
- 38:52say hi to the Palestinians He's IDF and he was
- 38:55he worked at a checkpoint. So a car said he had
- 38:58it coming then he had it coming on so Yeah, he's
- 39:03a dual city. It's not a tragedy. I mean when
- 39:05the Palestinian resistance When you're the occupying
- 39:08force When you're the occupying force Honestly,
- 39:12we have to we have to we have to cheer that we
- 39:14have to So it's like well, I mean, I mean can't
- 39:17say I mean, that's like look I mean if If if
- 39:22if yeah, my mom didn't cry when like the resistance
- 39:25killed a local SS guy. She was like Yeah So that's
- 39:32how we have to look at it. But again, somebody
- 39:35point to me one hot, hot Ziyo dude. I know there's
- 39:39some hot Zionist chicks because there's some
- 39:41really super hot, like Israeli chicks. Oh God,
- 39:46yeah. But the dudes. It's terrifying how hot
- 39:49they are. I'm saying the dudes. Can anybody name
- 39:53to me one sexy, a good -looking Ziyo dude? Justin
- 39:58Trudeau according to Macadam and he's right.
- 40:01I don't find him very if you like a feminine
- 40:05little I don't know. He's a Zion. Yeah, but I
- 40:12don't I don't find him very sexy That's not sexy.
- 40:15He's pretty. He's very pretty Was Obama was Obama
- 40:20good -looking enough sexy for you, I mean for
- 40:23Capitol Hill standards sure but but Eh, meh,
- 40:29I'm just saying. He's funny looking. Oh no, Peter,
- 40:34thank you for the donation. And Rumble Peter
- 40:36says, Manila, don't you think Robert Kraft is
- 40:39sexy? After all, he spent time in the company
- 40:41of young Asian women and I'm sure they weren't
- 40:44there for his money. That's right. You know,
- 40:48for some women, being a billionaire is the sexiest
- 40:53attribute of of any man. Oh, for sure. For sure.
- 40:58No question. We should we should move on. We
- 41:00have. Yeah, that never was a thing for me. We
- 41:03have other things to talk about here. We should
- 41:04move on. That that not be a thing. Breaking news
- 41:06is. Is OK. It's broken. OK, for more than two
- 41:16centuries, Americans have debated whether Thomas
- 41:19Jefferson was the father of children with Sally
- 41:22Hemings. who was, of course, one of his slaves.
- 41:26Smithsonian scholar Richard Curran spent 15 years
- 41:30looking for Jefferson's DNA. The investigation
- 41:34began with strands of hair discovered inside
- 41:37Jefferson's personal Bible. However, after years
- 41:40of testing, we found out that those hairs belonged
- 41:43to Clovis, not to Jefferson. History apparently
- 41:46had left researchers a follicular red herring.
- 41:50But... Curran kept looking at Monticello. Researchers
- 41:54found another packet containing a substantial
- 41:57lock of hair, reportedly cut on July 4th, 1826.
- 42:02Well, there was a note that appears to be contemporaneous
- 42:04that says that it was cut on the July 4th, 1826.
- 42:09That's, of course, famously the 50th anniversary
- 42:12of the signing of the Declaration of Independence,
- 42:15the day that Jefferson died, and the day that
- 42:17John Adams died. That sample produced enough
- 42:21DNA for scientists to sequence Jefferson's genome.
- 42:25They then decided to compare it with DNA from
- 42:28descendants of Madison and Esten Hemings, two
- 42:31of Sally Hemings' sons. According to Curran,
- 42:34those descendants carried significant amounts
- 42:36of Jefferson's DNA. Some showed even more genetic
- 42:40overlap than descendants from Jefferson's marriage
- 42:42to Martha Wales Skelton -Jefferson. Earlier DNA
- 42:47testing back in the 90s established that a dude
- 42:49from the Jefferson family had fathered Esten
- 42:52Hemings. Skeptics said that Thomas Jefferson's
- 42:55brother, cousin, or nephew could actually have
- 42:59been the person responsible. Curran says the
- 43:01new analysis now points directly to the nation's
- 43:04third president. This is all in a new book called
- 43:07History by a Hair. Gotta hate that name. A scientific
- 43:10paper detailing the research is still undergoing
- 43:13review. The discovery adds genetic evidence to
- 43:17what most historians had already concluded from
- 43:20documents, timelines, and family history that
- 43:22Jefferson was, of course, the father of children
- 43:25with Sally Hemings while she was his slave. And
- 43:29so there we go. Yeah, I mean, I was. Like many
- 43:36Americans, I have followed this story with great
- 43:38interest over the years. I became convinced 20
- 43:41years ago that, without a doubt, Jefferson was
- 43:44the father. The Sally Hemings thing was controversial
- 43:49originally because it was like, oh, it's miscegenation.
- 43:53This man is having sex with a black woman. That
- 43:58was his enemies among the... you know, the federalists
- 44:04were, you know, who were basically Madison's
- 44:07party. I mean, sorry, Hamilton's party. They
- 44:12went after him in newspapers over that. But then
- 44:17over the years, now in the age of woke, it's
- 44:20viewed as hypocritical because. She was his slave,
- 44:25and so basically it's viewed as an unequal relationship,
- 44:28obviously, the most unequal relationship you
- 44:31could possibly have between master and slave.
- 44:34And there's considerable controversy as to whether
- 44:37effectively it was a real couple or whether she
- 44:41basically had no choice in the matter. And I
- 44:43think it's hard to say. It's complicated. Certainly,
- 44:49let's not forget that Jefferson was a widower.
- 44:52um manila you're muted i i say the latter she
- 44:56was 16 years old when he started banging her
- 45:00this was a long time ago 16 was not 16 now well
- 45:06but he was 40 and her owner 16 that was not that
- 45:12okay the owner part is of interest but the age
- 45:17difference wasn't really that big a deal back
- 45:19then And then and and she considered running
- 45:22away when he took her after the wife died when
- 45:26he took her to France Because he was he was US
- 45:30ambassador to France Yeah, so she went to France
- 45:33and there she was a free woman and she considered
- 45:36running away and for whatever reason she didn't
- 45:39Because she was she was like the caretaker to
- 45:41to Jefferson's daughter She was basically there
- 45:44her handmaiden. Basically. I mean that's she
- 45:47wasn't really like Slave slave the way we consider,
- 45:50you know the way you think of slavery. I mean
- 45:52still slavery No, she was if you visited Monticello
- 45:55as a guest of Jefferson's You know on a social
- 45:59visit. She was introduced as the head of the
- 46:02house like a wife She greeted you at the door.
- 46:06She was She danced with him at the French court
- 46:09of Louis the 16th I mean, he didn't hide her
- 46:13in the shadows. Well, the French were so progressive,
- 46:16Ted. Well, also, Sally was also mixed race herself.
- 46:20She was actually only like a quarter black. Yeah,
- 46:24that's what they used to call a quadroon. Yeah,
- 46:27yeah. And so there's only like one or two or
- 46:31three accounts of what she actually looked like.
- 46:33And they said that she basically was a white
- 46:37pass. that she was she had fair skin she was
- 46:40she was darn near white and that she had like
- 46:43long dark hair straight dark hair and that's
- 46:45what added to the confusion is that previous
- 46:48jefferson family members may have uh been with
- 46:52one of her parents with her with her mom i guess
- 46:57yeah her her mom was was a half black and half
- 47:03white woman herself. So Sally was only like a
- 47:06quarter. I think that Sally, if I remember right,
- 47:09Ted, you can cut me on this. I want to say that
- 47:11she was Jefferson's wife's half sister. Yes,
- 47:15I think that's correct. That's which is all kinds.
- 47:18This is all kinds of. And he kind of like there
- 47:22was a physical resemblance. And, you know, Jefferson
- 47:25was absolutely destroyed by the death of his
- 47:28wife. He was head over heels. with for her. He
- 47:32adored her and he never got over her death. And
- 47:35so she told him you can't remarry. Right. And
- 47:40in some way, he kind of like he probably was
- 47:43like, well, you know, Sally reminds me of my
- 47:46beloved dead wife. My. I mean, I mean, I'm I'm
- 47:52going to I'm on Team Jefferson here. I'm a defender
- 47:56of my favorite founding a father. I think that
- 48:00You know, as a Frenchman, I say love is where
- 48:04you find it. And I think like, sure, it was an
- 48:07unequal relationship, obviously, and slavery
- 48:11is a horrific thing that never should have happened.
- 48:14But that said, you know, I mean, it's not really
- 48:20a scandal, as people say. You know, I mean, he
- 48:23kind of did a Hunter Biden, though, because that's
- 48:26that's like a. What, snorting crap off the tits
- 48:30of a prostitute? Kind of. Almost desolation.
- 48:36Look, he basically banged his dead wife's sister,
- 48:44who was 30 years his junior, and had ownership
- 48:49of her. That's all kinds of weird. That's an
- 48:54entirely different world back then. It's easy
- 48:57in the 21st century to look at all the opportunities
- 49:01in the population, everything else. People don't
- 49:05understand how dramatically different the world
- 49:08was even 100 years ago. Much less over totally.
- 49:11It was an entirely different society. You can't
- 49:16judge people by our mores. No, I agree. I agree
- 49:19by today's mores. One of the big things that
- 49:23Jefferson really showed us how devoted he was
- 49:26to her when the scandal broke out, when the media
- 49:29was taking him to task, Jefferson did the smartest
- 49:33thing he possibly could have done. He said nothing.
- 49:35He neither confirmed nor denied. The easiest
- 49:38thing for him to have done meant to have sold
- 49:40her off. This problem went away. He put it all
- 49:44on the line and said, this woman is in my house.
- 49:47She's a part of the family. You can attack me.
- 49:51You don't get to attack her. And the way that
- 49:53he dealt with it, he just did not say a word
- 49:56to anybody. He took the hardest of hard roads.
- 50:00Team Jefferson right here. But yeah, when I look
- 50:04at through the lens like Ted said, you cannot
- 50:10judge people's decision making. back then, I
- 50:14mean, this is, I mean, look how different things
- 50:16were, like we said in 1982 from the Tylenol cyanide
- 50:21killings, right? Going back 200 some odd years,
- 50:26I mean, yeah, I know the society was different
- 50:29or whatever, but you got to wonder though about
- 50:33Sally, if like, is she hooking up with Jefferson
- 50:36because... She felt she had to she was this like
- 50:40a Monica Lewinsky type thing like the power dynamic
- 50:43between the two was it that she had affection
- 50:46for him because in some way that is kind of her
- 50:51brother -in -law and there they both suffered
- 50:54a loss because Martha was her sister and it just
- 50:58I don't know that it's just it's it's a Consent
- 51:02was kind of more I suspect consent was a non
- 51:06-issue, Manoa. I think it's sort of like, look,
- 51:09I can do with you what I want, but I'm also kind
- 51:15of going to try to be nice about it. She had
- 51:19the chance to leave in France, and she chose
- 51:21to stay. That speaks volumes. She could have,
- 51:26yeah, she could have left. No, that's what I'm
- 51:29saying. that she considered leaving and she chose
- 51:32to stay with the family and take care of the
- 51:37girl. Yeah, for sure. And the thing is, I mean,
- 51:40she had every opportunity. She was basically
- 51:43a celebrity in France, almost to the point like
- 51:46what Benjamin Franklin was back in the day. I
- 51:48mean, she was there. And the fact that, again,
- 51:52You gotta think about the the firestorm that
- 51:54Jefferson is going under with the American press
- 51:56is that they were over they were doing their
- 51:58best to destroy the third president of the United
- 52:00States the signer of the Draft of the Constitution
- 52:04of not the Constitution Hamilton major prick
- 52:07the easiest thing for him to have done would
- 52:10either a just left her locked up in Monticello
- 52:13or number two soldier Instead he took he took
- 52:16her with him To Europe to France of all the most
- 52:20important country in Britain in Europe at the
- 52:22time our top America's top ally As this woman
- 52:27is the head of my household If you don't like
- 52:30yeah, no for sure for sure I would say and she
- 52:33I would say for sure Jefferson had feelings for
- 52:36her for sure like I think there's no question
- 52:40It's just I wonder what she felt towards him
- 52:44Well, she stayed. I mean, she had every opportunity.
- 52:49You would assume there's some some affection
- 52:51there, but I wonder what her thoughts were. It's
- 52:54just weird that there are so many like third
- 52:57party. Like there's limited, actually limited
- 53:00third party account accounts of who she was,
- 53:02what she was like, and like there's just not
- 53:05a lot directly from her. There's not like a memoir,
- 53:08like a journal or anything like that. Like it's
- 53:12just what. Jefferson has written about her like
- 53:15family members that you know her kids she had
- 53:18six kids with with the man four survived and
- 53:23They they were all freed upon Jefferson's death,
- 53:27right? So They we only know from what other people
- 53:32have said about Sally Hemings, which is Kind
- 53:36of odd, I would think somewhere there might be
- 53:38a diary somewhere, but I guess not. 200 years
- 53:40later, no one's found any, so. Well, if I remember
- 53:43correctly, and Ted, again, correct me if I'm
- 53:44wrong, I'm pretty sure that on the day that her
- 53:49children were born, they were granted their freedom.
- 53:51They were never slaves to begin with. They were.
- 53:52They were born free. That's correct. Yeah, that's
- 53:55true. That's not what I read from, no. That is
- 53:59true. No, her kids, I think they're... their
- 54:02her kids with Jefferson were still slaves until
- 54:06she said she made him promise her that he would
- 54:11put in writing that if they if and when he passed
- 54:14that they would be granted their freedom. Yeah.
- 54:17That's what that's that's what Robbie just said.
- 54:20No, but they weren't born free. They weren't
- 54:23born free. No, they were. Everyone was released.
- 54:25All the Hemingses were released by the way. So
- 54:28on his death. So my mom was a French teacher
- 54:32in southwest Ohio. And she had some interesting
- 54:37historical connections in her classes over the
- 54:40years. She had Robert E. Lee V in her class.
- 54:45And she also had, and the Robert E. Lee V. And
- 54:49she also had a Hemings. Now a lot of the Hemings
- 54:52family settled in southeast Ohio. Oh, that's
- 54:55right. I heard of that. And so she had a Hemings
- 54:58and she said, it would I saw the kids headshot
- 55:02in the school yearbook and it's bizarre because
- 55:06of course this is many many generations later
- 55:08but there's a distinct you know if you look at
- 55:11the nickel and you look at you know and you look
- 55:14at this kid you're like oh yeah you can see some
- 55:17facial some facial similarities maybe you're
- 55:20imagining it but my mom saw it too and I saw
- 55:22it I'm a very visual person I was like I read
- 55:26I had read that the four children Sally Hemings
- 55:31had with that survived had with Jefferson that
- 55:35their DNA through this lineage that you're that
- 55:39you're talking about Ted through this lineage
- 55:41of surviving you know later you know grandchildren
- 55:45great great great great grandchildren or whatever
- 55:47that their DNA has more of an exact match pattern
- 55:53I forget of which copy of their strand of DNA
- 55:55than the official children, the legitimate children
- 55:58he had with Martha. It was stronger on the Heming
- 56:03side. Crazy. So there you go. So that must be
- 56:06what you're talking about, why that kid looked
- 56:09so Jeffersonian. Apparently the Heming's DNA
- 56:16was a lot more... What's the right word? Jefferson
- 56:24gene was much more dominant in that DNA strand.
- 56:27Right. I mean, an unfortunate choice of words
- 56:32considering the slavery thing. But literally,
- 56:36his gene was more dominant because their copies
- 56:41of his DNA matched exactly unlike his legitimate
- 56:45children through Martha. And we know that now
- 56:48because of this hair thing, because of this recent
- 56:51news of his hair. Wait, so if the hair was cut
- 56:55on the day he died, is that what that story meant?
- 56:58That's correct. How to lock up his hair? Yeah.
- 57:00That was common back then. We have a family Bible.
- 57:04We've got clippings of hair from my family members
- 57:08who have gone on. It happens. Why? It's a memento.
- 57:13It's a keepsake. That was a very common Victorian
- 57:17era thing. I went to the American Full Garden.
- 57:21The American Folk Art Museum in New York in Lincoln
- 57:24Center, they had an exhibit of a private collection
- 57:27of, this was crazy, it's from the early days
- 57:31of photography from the Victorian era, where
- 57:34people, if they lost their child... they would
- 57:37have a photographer come over and take a picture
- 57:41of the dead child in all of their best wear,
- 57:45and then take photos of them. And then the dead
- 57:47child's photo with a lock of their hair would
- 57:51then be placed in this very gothic, purple velvet
- 57:58locket frame so the parents could remember their
- 58:03children. And so it was this huge collection
- 58:06of these, like this collector had collected them
- 58:09from, I don't know, estate sales and whatnot.
- 58:11Yeah, like death photos. Like we don't do that
- 58:14anymore in America. We did that a lot, all the
- 58:16way up. I mean, obviously in the wild, wild west,
- 58:20they did that. They took death photos. It's not
- 58:23a thing anymore. Also plaster death masks. We
- 58:27saw Robert E. Lee's death mask. It's over at
- 58:29Washington Lee College. I mean, just a lot of
- 58:34those old memories. Wait till they rename it!
- 58:37Wait till they rename it, Robbie, when the Democrats
- 58:39come back to power in 2028. They're going to
- 58:41have the House, the Senate, and the White House.
- 58:44President Newsom! President Newsom. You're not
- 58:48allowed to go visit Lee's grave there anymore.
- 58:51They took the Confederate flags down there at
- 58:54his tomb. I bet. Can't have that. History's bad.
- 58:59We can't know history. Dummy? All right, let's
- 59:02get to the next stories. All right, here's one
- 59:09that I think is quite scary. It's great, but
- 59:13also kind of scary. So brain -computer interfaces
- 59:16may sound like science fiction, but researchers
- 59:18are already using them to treat some of the most
- 59:21stubborn neurological and psychiatric disorders
- 59:24as I mute Ted's typing because he bangs away.
- 59:29So these systems record electrical activity in
- 59:33the brain, identify abnormal patterns, and deliver
- 59:36targeted stimulation. The newest versions operate
- 59:39in what they call a closed loop, meaning they
- 59:42continuously monitor the patient and adjust treatment
- 59:46as brain activity changes. So it's like custom
- 59:50brain treatment, like bespoke brain treatment.
- 59:55Traditional neuro stimulation usually delivers
- 59:58electrical pulses at fixed settings. Precision
- 1:00:02brain interfaces can provide stimulation only
- 1:00:05when the brain signals that it is needed. Artificial
- 1:00:09intelligence helps interpret those signals, predict
- 1:00:14symptoms. Wow, I can't say that today. It predicts
- 1:00:18symptoms and determine the appropriate response.
- 1:00:21for people with Parkinson's disease, implanted
- 1:00:25electrodes can detect abnormal activity and adjust
- 1:00:29stimulation to improve movement while reducing
- 1:00:32unwanted side effects. Responsive neurostimulation
- 1:00:36systems can recognize electrical patterns associated
- 1:00:39with an epileptic seizure and intervene before
- 1:00:43it actually fully develops. So before it actually
- 1:00:46hits you and you're having this grand mal seizure
- 1:00:48or whatever, Researchers are also studying this
- 1:00:52technology for depression, obsessive compulsive
- 1:00:56disorder, anxiety, stroke recovery, and spinal
- 1:01:00cord injuries. Some experimental systems could
- 1:01:03eventually allow the brain to communicate directly
- 1:01:06with assistive devices. helping people with paralysis,
- 1:01:11regain movement, or control external equipment.
- 1:01:14But nobody should schedule their cyborg upgrade
- 1:01:17just yet. Many brain interfaces still require
- 1:01:20surgery, carrying risks of infection, tissue
- 1:01:23damage, and device failure. The equipment can
- 1:01:26also be very expensive, and scientists must determine
- 1:01:29whether implanted systems remain safe and reliable
- 1:01:33over the years. So the durability. We don't know
- 1:01:38about the durability yet. Then there are the
- 1:01:41privacy questions. If a device continuously records
- 1:01:45brain activity, who owns that information? How
- 1:01:49securely is it stored? And how much authority
- 1:01:52should an algorithm have over treatment that
- 1:01:55could affect? a person's behavior or cognition
- 1:01:58like hello AI hugging face hello the technology
- 1:02:02remains under development but researchers believe
- 1:02:04smarter less invasive and more personalized systems
- 1:02:07could eventually change how doctors treat conditions
- 1:02:10that have resisted conventional medication and
- 1:02:14therapies and i will unmute ted so ted this is
- 1:02:19like yes like on the face of it I'm like, yay,
- 1:02:23like that's wonderful. Like soon you'll be able
- 1:02:25to, you know, like help people with paralysis.
- 1:02:28You'll be able to stop these seizures that people
- 1:02:30die from. It's all these wonderful, great things,
- 1:02:35but then you add in the whole AI part, the whole
- 1:02:40hackability. What if there are all these people,
- 1:02:46like their devices get hacked? Let's say it's
- 1:02:48one company, right? Their AI brain device gets
- 1:02:53hacked and it has them do awful things like I
- 1:02:57don't know like Ram their car into a parade Right,
- 1:03:03right. It can make you do I mean seriously if
- 1:03:06it's controlling the Or it could just be a glitch
- 1:03:09right or it can glitch anything That's where
- 1:03:12I'm kind of like, oh that this is That and it's
- 1:03:18not like a faint Maybe chance that this can happen.
- 1:03:21No, it can happen AI just hacked an AI agent
- 1:03:25went rogue and hacked Australia's Medicare system.
- 1:03:29I don't know what they call it, but We call it
- 1:03:32Medicare. So they're kind of root care Foster
- 1:03:38scare so so it's like these AI these AI agents
- 1:03:42like you're putting an AI agent in charge of
- 1:03:48controlling your brain. What if it has your brain
- 1:03:51shut it down? It tells your brain, shut it all
- 1:03:54down, stop breathing. Just stop. That could happen.
- 1:04:00I guess the thing is, at this point, this is
- 1:04:03only being used right now for people who are
- 1:04:06basically at death's door and who have very,
- 1:04:10very serious problems. So I would say when that's
- 1:04:14the situation and you're really desperate, You're
- 1:04:17kind of like I'll take my chances, right? I forget
- 1:04:22what Trump's Law rule is called, but it's basically
- 1:04:25he passed a rule that's basically, you know,
- 1:04:28if I mean deep deep shit Yeah, the right to try
- 1:04:31and I'm that's what this and yeah the right to
- 1:04:34try It's a right to try thing. I think where
- 1:04:37this starts to become an issue and I'm glad you
- 1:04:39know We're being forward -looking here is obviously
- 1:04:42the use of this technology will expand And you'll
- 1:04:46get to the point where it's going to be used
- 1:04:48for comparatively unlike threatening, not as
- 1:04:53dangerous, not as bad, where it's not really
- 1:04:57like, fuck it, I got nothing else to lose. Well,
- 1:05:00you do have something to lose and things could
- 1:05:02go really wrong. And obviously, yeah, I mean,
- 1:05:05that could happen. I promise you, Ted, this much
- 1:05:11of it being revealed to the public. from my previous
- 1:05:16reporting and experience would tell me that the
- 1:05:19DOD has been working with companies like this,
- 1:05:22if not this exact one. A little DARPA action,
- 1:05:24perhaps? For ages. There's some DARPA action
- 1:05:27happening here, and I've done stories about potential
- 1:05:31super soldiers and whatever and shit like that,
- 1:05:33right? There's all kinds of weird bioscience
- 1:05:37hackery happening. On my old show, I discussed
- 1:05:41all of this, like in the last couple of years.
- 1:05:44I even talked to a scientist at a university
- 1:05:47about this, about literally like super soldiers.
- 1:05:49China is doing super soldier research. What could
- 1:05:54go wrong? I mean, so this to me aligns right
- 1:05:58with. You know, all you need now is hacking the
- 1:06:02brain of potential super soldiers that don't
- 1:06:05feel pain, that are all amped up like like some.
- 1:06:08some you know like some meth head right like
- 1:06:11they feeling no pain i mean it is terrifying
- 1:06:14it's totally terrifying that's my only concern
- 1:06:18about this but on its face i'm like yes this
- 1:06:21is amazing for so many people that are debilitated
- 1:06:24by so many diseases that stem in their brain
- 1:06:26if their brain of course impulses can be controlled
- 1:06:29amazing um so all right there's there's that
- 1:06:32one And finally, Americans are increasingly asking
- 1:06:40AI what to snack on, according to Conagra Brands.
- 1:06:44Conagra Brands, a shift the Slim Jim meat stick
- 1:06:48maker says is helping fuel demand for higher
- 1:06:54protein fuels, foods, bold flavors and products
- 1:06:58tailored to specific health goals. Is Slim Jim,
- 1:07:02I want to know what health goal Slim Jim is talking
- 1:07:04to. Driven partly by the rapid rise of weight
- 1:07:08loss drugs and the White House's Make America
- 1:07:10Healthy Again initiative, consumers are seeking
- 1:07:13healthier food options more than ever. ConAgra,
- 1:07:16which also makes Hunts ketchup, again, I want
- 1:07:20to know what health goal that's tied to, worked
- 1:07:23with research firm Circhana to analyze more than
- 1:07:2953 million shopping transactions covering 17
- 1:07:32,000 products. Circona. Circona. Across the U
- 1:07:40.S. snacking sector. This sector generates almost
- 1:07:44$200 billion in annual revenue sales and is growing
- 1:07:481 .4 times faster than the overall food market.
- 1:07:51Well, that's a problem right there. More has
- 1:07:54changed in how Americans eat and shop for food
- 1:07:56in the six years since COVID than in the previous
- 1:07:5950 years, according to SVP of Growth Science
- 1:08:03Bob Nolan of ConAgra. Snacks are playing a bigger
- 1:08:08and more important role, a personal role, in
- 1:08:11consumers' lives, whether someone wants a boost
- 1:08:13of protein, lasting energy, or a moment of comforting
- 1:08:16indulgence, Nolan said. Health trends are only
- 1:08:20part of the story. ConAgra's research finds that
- 1:08:22younger consumers, particularly Gen Z -ers, are
- 1:08:26driving demand for bolder flavors, from sweet
- 1:08:29and spicy combos to tangy and briny snacks. I
- 1:08:32have a theory about why that would be true. I
- 1:08:35think it's because they all vape and smoke weed
- 1:08:38and also vape weed. And I'm not even kidding.
- 1:08:43And I think their taste buds are fried, so they
- 1:08:46need spicier food. Consumers are also examining
- 1:08:51ingredients more closely and increasingly using
- 1:08:54AI tools to guide purchasing decisions. Rather
- 1:08:57than searching for a specific product, Shoppers
- 1:09:00are asking for snacks that meet particular needs,
- 1:09:03such as higher protein or fiber content. These
- 1:09:06are the people who go to the store, to the deli,
- 1:09:09and you're waiting behind them. And they're like,
- 1:09:12OK, so how is this Slim Jim going to work in
- 1:09:16conjunction with my weight loss regimen? It's
- 1:09:19like, that's $5. I know, but it's $5. Get out.
- 1:09:25That's why some of the traditional categories
- 1:09:27have been under pressure. Nolan says, noting
- 1:09:30that cookies, my favorite, and salty snacks have
- 1:09:33struggled. The emergence of these more nutrient
- 1:09:35-dense snacks and snacking for purpose, snacking
- 1:09:39for purpose. Well, no, some people need to meet
- 1:09:42their macro. That's the name of my new band,
- 1:09:44snacking for purpose, have started really growing
- 1:09:47and accelerating, Nolan says. So first, I just
- 1:09:52want to point out, Ted, that like, you know,
- 1:09:54back in our Gen X era, Like we were talking about
- 1:09:57the again going back to the Tylenol the good
- 1:10:00old 1980s. I Was eating a fucking push pop through
- 1:10:05a toilet paper roll. That's what a fucking push
- 1:10:08pop was Do you remember that from the ice cream?
- 1:10:10Do you remember that? Oh, of course. I remember
- 1:10:12them Yeah, it was it was orange sherbert and
- 1:10:14that was like Wow, it's not vanilla like that
- 1:10:18and that was enough for us Yeah, like 1984 that
- 1:10:21was enough. But now the kids are like literally
- 1:10:26My son's second grade class. So school just started.
- 1:10:30The teacher sends home a note with all the kids
- 1:10:33to be like, oh, I just want to tell people to
- 1:10:36be mindful that there is a student in our classroom
- 1:10:40who is allergic to eggs, pine nuts, peanut butter,
- 1:10:43and like the list goes on and we're like. So
- 1:10:47please be mindful when you're packing your children's
- 1:10:49lunches to. Dude. Dude. The fact that we are
- 1:10:56bending over backwards to like like fine -tune
- 1:11:00and tailor Dieting diets not not to lose weight.
- 1:11:04I mean diets broadly as food like how we eat
- 1:11:07We are like micro fine -tuning it so much so
- 1:11:11that I think it's it's it's To a fault at this
- 1:11:16point that we are creating other health problems
- 1:11:19that didn't exist like in the 80s There's no
- 1:11:23question. Yeah So when you're doing this when
- 1:11:26you're like When you're like, oh, um, we're like
- 1:11:30all the con ag all the big food makers, right?
- 1:11:32Like big food is saying oh, we gotta we gotta
- 1:11:35make sure we gotta boost our protein contents
- 1:11:37Oh, we gotta for the mac people counting their
- 1:11:39macros and oh we they want, you know No xantham
- 1:11:43gum added to thicken whatever blah blah blah
- 1:11:45like okay That's fine and good. But when you're
- 1:11:49overly fine tuning to a point, it's you start
- 1:11:52breeding a whole We're at this point two generations
- 1:11:56in Ted of kids that are allergic to everything
- 1:11:59True everything True true true and then and then
- 1:12:04the asshole parents who are like in our age group
- 1:12:07Ted and and like the younger ones like the Millennials
- 1:12:09are over there holding up the line at the deli
- 1:12:12holding up the line at the coffee shop being
- 1:12:14like Do you have? Any coffee that would work
- 1:12:21for you know, I'm not taking I'm not taking any
- 1:12:24carbs But I really want I really want sweetener
- 1:12:27and I really do you have like coconut buttermilk
- 1:12:30blah blah and you're like This is Joe's diner
- 1:12:34No, the answer is no and you're like hurry up
- 1:12:38shut up just order a coffee and get out of my
- 1:12:40way That is what we're breeding and now like
- 1:12:45I know that's what the consumer wants and the
- 1:12:47The manufacturers are yielding to them obviously
- 1:12:51because people will buy it, but it it's a it's
- 1:12:55a vicious cycle Where now we're like gonna create
- 1:12:59whole generations of little shit asses that want
- 1:13:02everything tailored to their specific diet needs
- 1:13:05Go back to eating fucking ice cream out of a
- 1:13:08toilet paper tube like I did in 1984 what could
- 1:13:13go you will be fine you will be fine the ice
- 1:13:16cream man some random dude in a chester molester
- 1:13:19van with the door swung open and a freezer he
- 1:13:22sells you ice cream just eat it shut up it's
- 1:13:27fine you'll be fine so you know we're not in
- 1:13:30that era anymore and on top of it people are
- 1:13:32using like the the con agrib exec said people
- 1:13:37are using ai i mean here's one good use they're
- 1:13:40using ai To help them curate better diets and
- 1:13:47recipes and stuff, right? Whereas before it was
- 1:13:50only for the rich right if you had like a dietitian
- 1:13:53or whatever AI can help you meet those goals
- 1:13:56now because you can figure all that out on your
- 1:13:58own like with a with the use of AI That's pretty
- 1:14:00cool. That part is cool Not not the whole bunch
- 1:14:04of snowflake kids that are like, oh my kid is
- 1:14:06allergic to fucking pine nuts and you know chocolate
- 1:14:09chips Then it has to be you know Zero xylol xylothol
- 1:14:13gum or whatever not that but the people for the
- 1:14:16people that are trying to be healthier They have
- 1:14:19their own personal dietitian in in the way of
- 1:14:22AI. So that's kind of cool, right? Yeah, no,
- 1:14:27it is cool. Um, I mean, it's just funny that
- 1:14:30it comes out of the snack sector because I mean
- 1:14:33obviously It's not that snacking is inherently
- 1:14:37wrong in terms of eating small amounts of food
- 1:14:39and instead of in bits and pieces rather than
- 1:14:42large meals, but I mean this you know slim Jim's
- 1:14:46I mean Cancer cancer If y 'all ever want to have
- 1:15:03any fun seriously do this never jump jump on
- 1:15:06the AI of your choice Doesn't matter which one
- 1:15:09and ask it. What are the health benefits of eating
- 1:15:11squirrels? Okay, I'm gonna do that right now
- 1:15:16squirrels are fantastic snack by the way, but
- 1:15:19yes ask it honest to God I'm actually gonna actually
- 1:15:22I'm gonna ask it about cats Eating cats that
- 1:15:26you're gonna go on the Haitian diet Yeah, the
- 1:15:29Haitian diet, the Springfield diet. You're an
- 1:15:31Ohio native, Ted. That is the cuisine of Ohio.
- 1:15:33I'm going with Gemini. From a nutritional standpoint,
- 1:15:38cat meat is a source of animal protein, which
- 1:15:40provides essential amino acids, similar to other
- 1:15:44types of red or white meat. However, there are
- 1:15:47no unique or proven medical health benefits to
- 1:15:50eating cats, and doing so carries significant
- 1:15:53health risks. while cat meat has historically
- 1:15:57been used in very specific regional folk medicine,
- 1:16:01such as traditional elixirs or suits, believed
- 1:16:04by some to alleviate arthritis. Interesting.
- 1:16:09These claims are not supported by modern scientific
- 1:16:12evidence. Major risks. Cats carry a variety of
- 1:16:17zoonotic pathogens, diseases that run from animals
- 1:16:20to humans, including salmonella, E. coli, and
- 1:16:23Kempelo factor. One of the greatest risks is
- 1:16:28toxoplasmosis. Cats are the primary hosts. I
- 1:16:32know all about that. Rabies. And because cat
- 1:16:35meat is illegal or highly unregulated, it does
- 1:16:39not undergo standard veterinary inspection, commercial
- 1:16:43sanitation, or cold chain storage guidelines.
- 1:16:47So I guess Clovis is safe for today. So this
- 1:16:51is what ChatGPT says. What are the health benefits
- 1:16:54of eating squirrels? Quite a few actually. Squirrel
- 1:16:57is a nutritionally pretty solid wild game. It's
- 1:16:59lean, high protein, so it's essential protein
- 1:17:01with that much saturated fat compared to many
- 1:17:04fattier domestic meats like beef. It also provides
- 1:17:07iron important for hemoglobin and oxygen transport,
- 1:17:09zinc involved in the immune function and wound
- 1:17:13healing and several B vitamins, particularly
- 1:17:15B12, which supports red blood cell formation
- 1:17:18and neurological function. The trapezoid squirrel
- 1:17:21is lean, so it's not a good calorie source by
- 1:17:24itself, so you want to have it paired with something.
- 1:17:27Squirrel and dumpling is a legitimate southern
- 1:17:30food and solves those dietary deficiencies. Sounds
- 1:17:34to me like I'm missing out by not eating squirrel.
- 1:17:37Squirrel's awesome. I mean, obviously, I'm going
- 1:17:40to run out and if I can catch one of those fuckers,
- 1:17:42I'm eating one this afternoon. The Beverly Hillbillies
- 1:17:45used to talk about it on the show. It was on
- 1:17:47the show. I have eight thousands of squirrels.
- 1:17:51What? Oh, God, thousands. You caught thousands
- 1:17:55of squirrels. I didn't catch them. I shot them
- 1:17:57and cook them. Well, how much is left? What do
- 1:18:00you shoot them with the 22? Well, I'm using a
- 1:18:03pellet gun. Or you can use a fork or you can
- 1:18:08use a 410, but if you use a 410 aim at the head
- 1:18:11because otherwise you're up to the gut. But no,
- 1:18:13seriously, if you want to do this, if you're
- 1:18:16serious about getting some squirrels and when
- 1:18:18when you get done with your with your travels.
- 1:18:20Yeah, what? So you shoot your squirrel, get yourself
- 1:18:23a little knife like this. And what you do is
- 1:18:27that you cut an X on his underbelly and just
- 1:18:31roll the meat. They just roll the fur up. It
- 1:18:33just rolls up like a sock. Well, you do it. You
- 1:18:39cut an X and then you just grab it. And then
- 1:18:42the fur just rolls off. So that's really, so
- 1:18:46it's really easy to deal with. Yeah. Incredibly
- 1:18:48easy. And then you just, you know, she's the
- 1:18:50tip of your knife. Just start the anus to slide
- 1:18:53up. Here's your finger. Scoop out the guts and
- 1:18:56then watch. Cause you always want to make sure
- 1:18:57that the poo doesn't get in. Yeah. You want me
- 1:18:59to make sure Robbie should start a YouTube cooking
- 1:19:01channel. I'm listening. I can tell you there
- 1:19:04must be people who show this on scrolling, scrolling,
- 1:19:07gravy, scrolling, rice, girl dump. God squirrels
- 1:19:11a fantastic meal. You can grill it. You can bake
- 1:19:13it. You can fry it You can do whatever the hell
- 1:19:15is you want to a squirrels robbie Are you are
- 1:19:17you suggesting to the con agra executive that
- 1:19:20maybe they should make slim jim squirrel? Instead
- 1:19:23of using processed beef that comes out of a factory
- 1:19:26if they want to do this and have a healthy snack
- 1:19:29option squirrels are better choice And they're
- 1:19:32obviously not endangered or anything. They're
- 1:19:34very common. They are not Yeah, but if conagra
- 1:19:38gets a hold of Robbie's recipes. Oh, yeah You
- 1:19:42have a squirrel stick true Instead of a slim
- 1:19:46Jim snap into a squirrel stick There you go,
- 1:19:51they might become endangered just saying they're
- 1:19:53cute little bastards They come into my backyard
- 1:19:55and steal the cat food all the time. So there
- 1:19:57you go Listen I can solve that problem for you
- 1:20:02and then I can prepare you a nice meal after
- 1:20:04it's done I don't want to hurt the little squirrels.
- 1:20:08They're my little squirrel friends. Manila, you
- 1:20:10and I would be hurting. Well, it's either that
- 1:20:12or the cats, Manila, if you want to avoid arthritis.
- 1:20:14Well, no. I would be the one hurting the squirrels.
- 1:20:16I'm not going to eat the cat I rescued, and I'm
- 1:20:18not going to eat the squirrels that come steal
- 1:20:20her food. They're cute. They're all really cute.
- 1:20:24There's no choice. You have to. Well, then me
- 1:20:26and your husband. I'll just go eat a Slim Jim.
- 1:20:28Me and your husband and your son will eat the
- 1:20:31squirrels, and they'll enjoy it. No. Robbie,
- 1:20:36I'll totally eat a squirrel with you next time
- 1:20:38we're together. Squirrel's awesome. This is a
- 1:20:40fantastic meal. And I misspoke, you don't cut
- 1:20:43the X on the belly, you do it on the back. So
- 1:20:47you kill the squirrel, you cut an X right there.
- 1:20:49How do you kill it? Do you whack it over the
- 1:20:51head or what? No, Robbie shoots it. You shoot
- 1:20:54the squirrel, Ted. Yeah. Because they're fast.
- 1:20:58Shouldn't you have some sort of, like, because
- 1:21:00we're in America, shouldn't we have like a sort
- 1:21:03of a show trial? and like, accuse it of, falsely
- 1:21:06accuse it of a crime, like illegal immigration,
- 1:21:08like that guy in Evanston. Like, you know, hey,
- 1:21:11you're hanging out in front of a Mexican restaurant.
- 1:21:13He was an anti -Semite. You must be, you must
- 1:21:17be, you must be one of the Browns, the squirrels
- 1:21:20Brown. He's here illegally. We don't know. We
- 1:21:23don't see that he entered the country legally.
- 1:21:25The only remorse I ever had for shooting squirrels
- 1:21:27is that they wore my favorite color gray. They're
- 1:21:29a filler gray backs, but sacrifices must be made
- 1:21:33when you're hungry. Well, that's true. So well,
- 1:21:36there you go. That's good. It's a little bit
- 1:21:39of weird Wednesday That's that's that's it because
- 1:21:46it's Tuesday and Thursday we got to cram it all
- 1:21:48in there So come back Tuesdays Thursdays Robbie
- 1:21:51is gonna be dropping these individual segments
- 1:21:53I think Robbie we can do like this cooking with
- 1:21:57Robbie. We should make yourself Cooking with
- 1:22:01Robbie special on TMI So look for our segment
- 1:22:06drops if that's how you can help us the most,
- 1:22:09guys. Actually, let me hit the drop. We will
- 1:22:15be back on Tuesday, 10 a .m. Eastern Time, Tuesdays
- 1:22:17and Thursdays, 10 a .m. Eastern Time. We are
- 1:22:20dropping the individual segments. So if you want
- 1:22:22the cooking recipe, you can find Robbie's squirrel
- 1:22:25recipe or whatever. And all these stories in
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