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May 18, 2025

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00:00Open/ Joe Biden visits Le Show
02:46'I Stayed Too Long At The Fair' by Rosemary Clooney
07:31News of AI: Anthropic apologizes after Claude faked a legal citation; Meta delays its Behemoth AI model rollout; Study says using AI at work might be ruining your reputation; AI-generated research papers are flooding science with junk studies; Lloyd's of London rolls out AI error insurance; Grok keeps bringing up 'white genocide' in South Africa; The big I is the big lie
17:25News of Musk Love: Elon joins Trump on Saudi trip for Middle East investment talks; The universe is decaying much faster than previously thought; Boring beneath Las Vegas with little oversight
23:57News of the Olympic Movement: Flying taxis could be coming to LA Olympics in 2028
27:01'Doralice' by Stan Getz & João Gilberto, feat. Antonio Carlos Jobim
29:45News of Crypto Winter: Hackers bribe Coinbase staff to steal customer data and demand $20M ransom
32:49TV's big upfronts week
33:56Trump's military parade could cost $45M
35:41Obesity drug maker Novo Nordisk's CEO is stepping down
36:04Trump this week: Qatar gave Trump a $400M luxury jet
37:11'New Qatari Jet' by Harry Shearer
39:23The Applogies of the Week: Former England soccer player Gary Lineker, Rhode Island man bummed out by 'RUMP' typo, NY Senate, El Gallo Bar & Grill, News.com.au, State Farm VP
47:56News of the Atom: PG&E has to pay back customers $43 million for a botched retrofit of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant; French radioactive waste storage project could cost as much as $42 billion; Commission rips nuclear waste report
53:18What the Frack?: Ohio officials say recent earthquakes are from fracking
54:42The Side Effects of the Week
55:22'Spring Is Here' by Charlie Haden & Kenny Barron /Close

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