Jan
29
2017
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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner
News of the Bogus:
21:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: “Concerned LastPass User” https://hackernoon.com/psa-lastpass-does-not-encrypt-everything-in-your-vault-8722d69b2032
27:45 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The FDA http://gizmodo.com/the-fdas-newly-proposed-gmo-rules-are-nonsense-1791519749
This Week’s Quote: All the food we eat—every grain of rice and kernel of corn—has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops.” —Michael Specter
Tags: feminism, First Amendment, gmo, Milo Yiannopolous, Obama, protest, riots, security, SJW, Snowden, Trump
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Jan
22
2017
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Co-Host: Daniel Wilcox
News of the Bogus:
18:58 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Oxfam http://fusion.net/story/380433/oxfams-davos-wealth-inequality-wrong-misleading/
25:02 – Silver Cluon Award: Cris Thomas http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/whos-winning-the-cyber-war-the-squirrels-of-course/
30:04 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Donald Trump https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170113/08415036481/rudy-giuliani-to-head-up-trumps-cybersecurity-team-as-internet-laughs-giulianis-security-bona-fides.shtml
Trump’s cyber-guru Giuliani runs ancient ‘easily hackable website’ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/13/giuliani_joomla_outdated_site/
This Week’s Quote: “National security is becoming an oxymoron in an age of cyberweapons. We need to work towards international security that works for everyone.” —Martin Hellman
Tags: Bernie Sanders, Chelsea Manning, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, encryption, flag burning, hacking, Obama, Rudy Giuliani, Russia, security, Signal, wealth inequality, WhatsApp
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Jan
15
2017
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Co-Host: Travis Retriever
News of the Bogus:
26:27 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: CNN and Buzzfeed (nominated by Neil Purcell) http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/01/omg-fake-news-cia-fell-incredible-golden-showerfable-trump/
32:54 – Idiot Extraordinaire: David Blaine http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/television/david-blaine-shoots-himself-in-the-mouth-as-famous-bullet-stunt-goes-wrong/news-story/c9e71c2edba1f1c6e25f7b83db64c678
This Week’s Quote: “It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits, than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.” —Thomas Jefferson
Tags: Alexa, Amazon Echo, DUI, DWI, Edward Snowden, fake news, Google Now, iOS, Lyft, Microsoft Cortana, news media, ridesharing, Russia, Siri, taxi, Trump, Uber
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Jan
08
2017
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Co-Host: Jakob Morris
News of the Bogus:
16:22 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The news media
25:04 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Manville, NJ Board of Education https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/01/02/anti-gun-control-presentation-on-high-school-students-flash-drive-leads-to-psychological-exam-litigation/
This Week’s Quote: “The Second Amendment was written expressly to intimidate government officials and keep them in their place. The fact that politicians and bureaucrats, regardless of their party, detest it and want it obliterated proves that it works.” —L. Neil Smith
Jan
01
2017
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2016 Wrap-Up:
0:40 – Year in review
Idiot of the Year nominations:
This Week’s Quote: “Venezuela reaches the final stages of socialism: No toilet paper…Venezuela has demonstrated that ‘Socialism of the 21st Century’ is pretty much like socialism in the 20th century.” —David Boaz
Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, Bitcoin, election, feminism, libertarian, libertarianism, Nicolas Maduro, Paul Krugman, SJW, socialism, Trump
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