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I really liked the thing with the Blooper real at the start because I felt that that made it more of like a happy kind of carefree tone for us of it. Which is why I feel that my age demographic would be more attracted to cool. Well, maybe I'll just take exactly that comment right there and put it at the beginning, 1s because that would be awesome. That would be kind of meta. 5s All right. What was that, nephew? I just said yes. 2s All right. I'll make sure to highlight that in the edit. Nice. 2s We'll move straight on to new splits. Blue splits. Let's not do that. Blue spits. 2s They're just basically just swamping the system by getting panicked by and going 2s buy a toilet paper. Yeah, exactly. Go get that toilet paper when you can. 1s No, don't. Don't. You're going to start a whole thing. 2s We don't need that again. We've been there on that. 1s Alright? I'm ready to talk about this. Okay? 1s Alright, NF. 3s All right. I was going to call you NFU, but you're not NFU, your nephew. 1s All right, nephew. Okay. Wait. Stop. Pause. Ready? Gather myself. 1s Stop laughing. 12s Hello, everyone, and welcome to NFU News episode five. Today is November 26, 2022 and we have new microphones, bro. Yeah, we do. How do I sound on my new microphone? Do I sound like a true podcaster? Not quite, but it sounds pretty good. Should I put on my radio voice? Do I sound better? Like a true podcaster? Give yourself a weird accent. Yeah, I don't know what that was. I just interpreted that. How? Like podcasters talk? No, that's like that's just how news anchors talk. 2s Yeah, that's true. I think the beauty of podcasting is that it's really just a conversation. And I think that's what I'm trying what I think we're trying to do here for anyone who is new to the show, that's the format of the show is I explain to my nephew I am uncle. I explained to my nephew news events that happened in the last week. It's a lot more of just back and forth and we're hoping people can learn more about the news and be a little bit more entertained. Yeah, that's why we call it NFU News. It's news from uncle. We also changed the format of the show a little bit. I had some feedback from some family members and from nephew here that it might be funeral just to get into the newsletter right away so that we can just rattle through some new stories right away at the top and then maybe take a deeper dive on some of the top stories later in the show. So that's what we're going to do. Yeah. Because the top stories can sometimes be pretty boring. Top stories can be somewhat boring, especially when uncle does a deep dive in a long discussion about it. Yeah. So let's kick it off with the News Blitz. Could almost call News Blitz item number one, the new format. So straight on to News Blitz number two, cruise passenger rescued after 15 hours in the sea. It's a long time. So this guy was on on a cruise. You know what a cruise ship is, right, nephew? Yeah, it's a big old ship. Yes. A bunch of people, like on vacation or whatever, trying to see parts of the world. This guy is at dinner with people and he says to everyone, yes, I'm going to go use the john, I'm going to use the restroom facilities. And he disappears. Did he fall in? Apparently he fell in, yeah. How he fell in hasn't been really talked about yet. Are released as far as information. But he had been at the bar, let's just say that. Oh, boy. Perhaps he had a few too many. Perhaps 1s at some point he goes into the goes into the drink. 15 hours later, they found him. The Coast Guard found him with one of their helicopters and they rescued him. 1s So happy ending to that. That's good stuff. Yeah. Can't imagine those two easy swimming when you're drunk. Oh, and yet he survived for 15 hours. That's a long time. Yeah. That's really draining, I'm sure. Yes. Keeping your head above water for 15 hours would just be exhausting. And in freshwater, too, like all the animals there. I don't know for sure if it was freshwater, but he was on
feel like the fun is kind of pensive, like podcast and stuff for the ones that aren't prepared very much. 0:08 Hello, and welcome to episode four. 3s I hear that bottle cap or something a lot. Okay, so all this is getting cut off out. 0:21 No, I'll keep it in. It's fine. See, this is what I do when I'm not prepared. Do you see the huge difference? 2s This is getting cut out for 0:30 sure. 0:42 Hello, and welcome to episode four of NFU News. This is November 20, 2022. Nephew, how are you feeling about episode four? I'm feeling all right. 0:55 This one. 2s We're trying a little bit of different approach to this episode. We're doing a little bit of less outlining of everything we're going to talk about before we start talking. So we're hoping this will be a little bit more of a discussion, hopefully, instead of just robots talking back and forth. So let's jump into the top story, and I have it down as special counsel named for Trump Investigations by the Department of justice. Does any of those words confuse you? Maybe special counsel is not something you're not familiar with. Not really familiar with that. So counsel, that is pretty special, I'm guessing. Yeah, they are very special. So the Department of justice is the entity that tries to enforce the laws by prosecuting people in court when they break, like, criminal law or if they you. Do damage to, say, large entities like the public, like if some company dumps chemicals in the river or something like that. So the Department of justice typically would handle that with the prosecutors that they have, like on staff. Specifically, like the Attorney General of the United States would oversee anything that's being investigated by their prosecutors. But in this case, they decided to appoint someone with a nearly full control over the investigation who is seen as a neutral third party. And the reason why is because Donald Trump is a political figure, and 2:39 they wanted to ensure that there was no 1s view of bias in the prosecution team that were appointed by the President of the United States currently, who is Joe Biden, and they're in separate parties. So that's U1 U2 U1 U2 U1 U2 U1 kind of the reason why you would appoint a special prosecutor excuse me, a special prosecutor, special counsel is because 1s they need neutrality. They need to make sure it's clear that this is a neutral investigation. So this person is going to oversee basically two different investigations. The first being. 3:19 If anything was inappropriate about the January 6 riot at the capital, was anything in the Trump inner circle or Trump himself responsible for 1s inciting the crowd to do illegal things? 1s Definitely a lot of illegal things happened. It's just a matter of, 1s is anyone in the Trump inner circle legally to blame for that? And the other thing that the Special Counsel is also investigating regarding Donald Trump is the documents that were at Marlago, 1s his home, that were retained by him 4:05 after his presidency. So top secret information, information about nuclear 4:13 capabilities of other countries, has been speculated to be within those documents. So things like that. The new Special Prosecutor, his name is Jack Smith, which is a very boring name. I heard one reporter say Jack Smith is a name that you would use if you were a writer to denote someone is humble. And he is probably the most important prosecutor in the history of America, maybe the history of the world right now because of his appointment. That's pretty special. Yes, a very special counsel. 4:55 So, yeah, that story, you're going to hear more and more about that story for until the end of time. Really? 2s That's a long time away. Quite a way. We got to wait a little 5:08 bit. 1s Yeah. 5:10 Any thoughts on this, 5:13 nephew? 1s Not really. I mean, it's very fun. Top story. Yeah. It's not exciting. It's just newsworthy. Very newsworthy. Let's move on to the second top story. The World Cup begins in Qatar. 5:31 Cutter&
Hello and welcome to NFU News. This is episode 3, November 1422. We are recording a day late today and that's because schedules just don't line up sometimes between is this two days late? Yes, two days, yeah. Typically we like to record on a Saturday. This is a Monday now, but we'll try to be more consistent. 0:34 So what do you think, Nev? Should we keep doing this or 0:37 just stop now? 0:42 I don't know. 1s We've been doing it for decent amount of time. I'm not sure who would be satisfied with only two or three episodes of a podcast. Yeah, typically you want to hear more. If you get to episode two, you probably want to hear three, four, five and they'll be down with it then. After 1:01 five. 1s Excuse me? 2s Alright 1:05 then let it be know we'll keep doing this. We'll keep doing this for now. 1:10 Alright. 1:11 Should you jump into some news? No, 1:16 I U1 U2 U1 U2 U1 U2 U1 U2 U1 U2 1:16 am. I'm ready. OK, you're ready now? Okay, good. The first news item of the week. I feel like the biggest news item, the most important news item is the midterm elections. 1:28 So what do you know about the midterms nephew? I think we talked about it two weeks ago now. Midterms, middle election stuff. Midterm. It's called midterms because it's in the middle of 2s the president's term. So it's like the President serves four years but in the middle there there's elections for like US house, US senate. Of course, this is America centric news item. The midterms typically go against the president. So whoever the current president is, the midterms, usually the people want to vote in the other party reasons because they typically find reasons to be upset with the current president. It seems quite normal. There's only been a couple of exceptions to the rule that the current president does very poorly in the midterms. And this year was at least the polling showed that it was going to be very similar. However, a very big surprise, the election seemed to be a lot more split where both parties seem to make progress but way outperforming the expectations. The Democrats did pretty well. I'll give you an example. 538, which is a website that kind of tries to scientifically pin down the odds of either 1s result in the election. They try to look at polling information and then other factors and decide, yeah, this person is more likely to win this election or this party is more likely to win the election. They had 3:08 a 59% chance that the Republicans. 2s That's the opposite party as the current president, Joe Biden is a Democrat and the Republicans are the other party. The Republicans should take the US. Senate. 3:24 59% chance, and they did not. The Democrats, as of recording, have been projected to have at least 50 seats. And then there's a runoff in Georgia for the last available Senate seat. That's a 3:38 big deal. 60% chance they were supposed to win the Senate and they didn't. But this is even bigger. 3:44 84% chance that the House of Representatives would go to the GOP. GOP is another name, nickname, so to speak, for the Republicans. They were supposed to win it and they were supposed to win big. But right now it's still uncalled. It still isn't settled who's going to win that. 4:03 So, 4:05 U1 U2 U1 U2 U1 U2 U1 yeah, the Republicans underperformed what's the polling suggested and what history suggests, too. 1s So, yeah, it's just an interesting 4:16 outcome. And 2s one of the things that's come out of this is the GOP, as I called them before, Republicans, they are talking a lot about 4:29 what they want to run on, what kind of issues do they want to be known for? Championing the former President Donald Trump was kind of front and center in this election. He handpicked a lot of the candidates, endorsed them, kind of gave them the they needed to win primary elections in the party, in the Republican Party. And some of them are election denial people. Do you know what the election denial is? 1s People who are against elections. 1s People who
0:11 All right, well, welcome to NFU News, which stands for News from uncle, 1s episode number 2, November 5, 2022. And, yeah, I'm pretty surprised we're not canceled by now. What do you think, Nephew? 0:29 Yeah, 1s our last one was pretty controversial. 0:34 Yeah, we had a lot to definitely 0:36 go watch it, if you haven't watched it already. 0:38 Yeah, she means listen. But that's all right. 0:42 I used to more than I listen 0:43 to. I understand. Yeah. 1s All right. So what do you think, Nephew? Should jump into some of the stories that are on my radar. 1s Sure. Okay. All right. So top story. This one's kind of a bummer. It's no loss of life as of yet, but it's still a bummer. Which is? North Korea is stirring up hostilities by launching many missiles recently. In the last 1s few days, they've launched over 30 missiles. 2s And all of them are apparently tests. So, for example, Thursday they launched six missiles, but that was a day after 1s they launched 23 missiles. Some of them were the ones called ICBMs. Do you happen to know what that stands for, Nephew? I've heard of it. ICBM. 1:40 Inter. 1:42 U1 U2 U1 U2 U1 U2 U1 U2 U1 You got it so far. Continental? Yes. 3s Bomb missile. Yes. Intercontinental bum missile. Excuse me? 1s Oh, I'm reading my notes here. Says intercontinental ballistic missile. So those are the ones that fly really high up into the sky and then they do like this huge arc it's so that they can go basically all around the world. The higher they can shoot it, the further it can ultimately go. These are the ones that, like, in theory would have nuclear warheads on them and they can launch them anywhere around the world. So that's kind of why it's so scary that they're using ICBMs. A lot of the other ones were short range missiles that they were testing. Japan actually had some pretty big alerts go off where they were telling their 1s residents to take cover, like underground, if they had the ability to. Almost like a freaking tornado. So what do you think of that one, Nephew? Have you followed much going on with North Korea and South Korea or any of the history 2:52 there? Not really. I mean, I mostly don't want to live my entire life being anxious about what's going to happen with war. 2:59 I think that's fair. I 3:01 don't have much say in that, so I feel as if there's no need to 3:04 get into that. Yeah, there's not much. Like, even if you're very aware, you're not going to be able to do much about it. Yeah, I understand that. So I think that's a healthy perspective to have, certainly as a young person, but I think for anybody OK, second story. Tick tock. So you may have heard about it. Like a couple of years ago, the Trump administration started making some efforts to potentially stop TikTok from being used in the United States to block it from being on, like, the Apple Store and the Android Store. 1s For Download. 1s Do you happen to know any reasoning why? Did you hear about it back in 2020? Nephew a little bit. There might be a ban on TikTok. Did you hear at the time at all why that might be 3:50 no, I don't think so. I really care because I didn't use TikTok. You are one of the few people around your age not using it right. I know it's very popular around your age. It's also quite popular around adults also. And a lot of people are looking at TikTok and they don't even know it. Somewhat often. Anyways. The reason for the Trump administration to do it initially and for current government officials to be exploring the option is basically because TikTok is owned by China. Well, it's owned by a company that's in china, is a better way to say it, given some of the history that the chinese government has had with companies and leveraging those companies for their own interests, including gathering information, like user information and stuff. The government is very concerned about that, especially with Tik tok being so popular. And media companies have a different sort of responsibility to the publ