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Le Show For The Week Of September 15, 2024

Le Show

Harry Shearer

Politics, News, Music, Society & Culture, Tech News, Sports

4.6972 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s edition of Le Show, Harry brings us regular features like News of the Godly, News of the Atom, The Apologies of the Week, and News of Crypto-Winter. We also get to hear from author Gary Marcus, who joins the program to discuss artificial intelligence and his new book, Taming Silicon Valley.

Transcript

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0:02.0

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0:07.0

Well, ladies and gentlemen, what a week, just passed.

0:12.0

It held its own parade. What a week, just passed.

0:12.7

It held its own parade of bizarre and fascinating stories.

0:18.6

In the wake of a humbling debate,

0:20.1

Donald Trump announced he's going to be unveiling

0:22.3

his own brand of cryptocurrency.

0:27.0

Finally, a product you shouldn't trust from a man you can't trust.

0:32.0

Speaking of that debate, my sense is that long after most people forget

0:37.1

what was said, and that won't be easy given some of the statements. What will linger in the mind was a visual memory

0:46.4

of a really angry man.

0:50.4

Not sure that was in a game plan.

0:54.0

And then there were the cats and dogs of Springfield, Ohio,

1:00.0

and then during gift to the comedy world,

1:05.3

not only because they weren't raining,

1:15.0

the woman behind the original Facebook post spreading that claim, says she had no first-hand knowledge of any such incident

1:20.0

that is now filled with regret and fear as a result of the ensuing fallout.

1:25.8

It just exploded into something I didn't mean to happen said Erica Lee, a Springfield resident. She told that to NBC News.

1:36.4

At the end of the week, she had posted on Facebook about a neighbor's cat

1:41.4

that went missing, adding that the neighbor told Lee, she

1:44.5

thought the cat was a victim of an attack by her Haitian neighbors.

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