EP.011: Live Marination

Episode 11 comes to you live, after a week of lessons in complacency. It opens with a bandsaw blade and a fact-check on whether gasoline is a byproduct of diesel (it isn't). The surveillance thread picks up where the show keeps leaving it: Flock and three rival surveillance CEOs skip a Senate hearing named Always Watching, a Florida woman describes 13 days in jail over a plate-reader hit, five Indianapolis officers are charged for tracking people they had no business tracking, and Flock goes after the map that shows 300,000 of its devices. A federal appeals court sides with the Pentagon in labeling Anthropic a national-security supply-chain risk for refusing to drop Claude's limits. A story from Trashman becomes the trolley problem for eco warriors: 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste on the Atlantic floor, visibly leaking, and home to thriving colonies of crabs. After a detour through tarantulas, banana spiders and cobwebs as first aid, it's on to Army Reserve planning for a possible Cuba mission, and a cartel terror designation that's older than the headlines made it sound. The back half gets strange. A screech, possibly saying bad boy, echoes across a mile and a half of Milwaukee, with its roots in the Windsor and Taos hums. Lights hover over Tehran. A viral claim says the Rothschilds just lost control of 22 weather stations. The Wood Chipper Award goes to the Michigan Supreme Court ruling that took more than 20,000 names off the state's sex offender registry. The night ends on a cattle-cloning sales deck promising to turn a steer into a bull. It asks whether you'd eat beef from the grandkids of a clone, and whether you already have. Then come cattle fattened on expired candy: the live marination of the title.