So Close To China, They Can Hear The Music

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Kinmen Islands is a part of Taiwan, but it's only five miles from China, the main Island of Taiwan laying over 100 miles across the Taiwan Straight. S. Leo Chiang is the director of the Oscar-nominated short documentary about Kinmen called Island In Between. Plus, a Magician apparates in the middle of the Democratic primaries. And, five years on, where would we be without the Green New Deal? Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:10.0	I'm going to pose to you a question that the New Republic posed to me in a headline.
1:16.0	Why was a New Orleans magician behind that anti-Biden New Hampshire robocall? This is not possible to answer. No one can answer it. In fact, it begs the question. Let's cut off a couple of those words and just report to you the very important fact as first unearthed by MS NBC a magician was behind the
1:37.9	robo-call. The Democratic consultant who worked for a rival presidential campaign paid a New Orleans magician to use artificial intelligence to impersonate President Joe Biden for a robocall.
1:50.0	I don't understand why he couldn't have just done an impression of Joe Biden or had the little hand in the box and wiggled his fingers when it was really a puppet as his assistant walked around the bend and did an impression of Joe Biden.
2:04.7	Paul Carpenter, the New Orleans magician, was hired by Steve Kramer, who's worked on ballot
2:09.8	access for Dean Phillips.
2:11.3	Oh my God, we're getting way into the weeds. Doug Henning is going to come up soon, but it wasn't through the spirit of illusion that these robocalls were made. Somehow AI was used, I don't know why you'd have to go through a magician to get a
2:25.8	robocall that sounded like Joe Biden and didn't work and also didn't sound that much
2:30.9	like Joe Biden. Some details about this magician, Carpenter,
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