FULL EPISODE: Passing Gas, Medically Speaking - January 16, 2026
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Unfiltered discussions.
What is the Defiance Act and how does it address deepfake issues?
Unexpected guests. No topic is off-limits. From sex and relationships to the human condition. Personal anxieties and so much more. The only talk show of its kind in the world. World This Is.
Welcome in. Happy Friday. Here are some of the topics we'll tackle tonight.
How does the Canadian advocacy group aim to break up Apple's App Store?
Apple's App Store. It locks developers in. You can't sell anything on their platform without Apple's approval and without giving them a 30% cut. But should things be this way? One advocacy group is trying to get Apple to stop this behavior, but will they succeed? That is what we'll cover in 10 minutes time. Then after that... Everybody does it, nobody talks about it. This evening, we'll get scientific about why humans pass gas, what a tooth says about your gut, why silent ones are deadly. Halfway through the hour, a gastroenterologist will teach you the biology behind your bodily functions.
How can passing gas provide insights into gut health?
All right, that is some of what we'll cover tonight. That is some of what you'll learn. There will be more, but for now, let's dive in with tech stories of the day. It is time for Technology Time. We are joined by tech analyst, tech expert, and friend of mine, Carmi Levy. Some people call him Random Access Carmi.
Does anyone call you that, Carmi? No, because that shortens to Ram Carmi, which quite frankly has some implications I really don't want to get into or have to explain to my wife. So maybe Random Access Carmi would work on its own.
All right.
What does fragmented sleep mean for cognitive performance in older adults?
Rack, I think. Random access. Never mind. Let's talk about this act that has been passed by the U.S. Senate. It's not signed to law yet, but it's basically trying to protect people with whom deep fakes create fake images of them, fake videos of them that are awful. We're talking like dark stuff, like pornographic, things like this, which I would want myself... protected from that even though i don't really care if anyone sees me naked i don't want anyone to generate images of me and then i don't know blackmail my employer with them or if i'm a young person send them to all my college peers or just people can do really awful stuff with this tech and i do think there needs to be some protection
Yeah, I mean, it's an ultimate nightmare scenario, and certainly we've seen it over the past couple of weeks, specifically with Grok, where regular unsuspecting people are posting images of themselves, as people often do, to their ex-account, and then complete strangers are grabbing those images, running them through Grok, nudifying them, sexualizing them, putting them in bikinis, or taking off their clothes, and then distributing them to
How are scientists treating AI models like alien life forms?
their followers, at which point they go viral.
What are the financial disclosure rules impacting big streamers in Canada?
So imagine that level of digital victimization. I mean, it's a form of virtual sexual assault, and you have no control over it as a victim. And so it's called the Defiance Act, and it's probably the best acronym ever coined. It stands for disrupt explicit forged images and non-consensual edits for defiance. And it was sponsored by a Democratic senator and the Senate has now passed it unanimously. So everybody agreed this is necessary. It ensures that anybody who's been victimized by non-consensual, sexually explicit images deepfakes of themselves, that they can take civil action against the people who have done so. So it at least gives victims an opportunity to level the playing field to seek some kind of justice against these cretins who are doing this online, using AI image generators like Grok to persecute this kind of crime.
Now, it's weird. They're being kind of technical about it. They're not saying the very generation of it is the problem. It's like the hosting of it. Could I use this act? Suppose someone did something awful like this to me. Could I use some mechanism on X or Twitter? I'm still calling it Twitter. I don't care.
What happened with the woman who brought 144 bagels from Toronto to LA?
later forever to like cause them to then immediately take down the post like what would the mechanism be for me can i just sue because that seems really difficult the average person doesn't have access to a lawyer and a lawsuit is it sort of like a digital millennium copyright act takedown
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:03
2
What is the Defiance Act and how does it address deepfake issues?
0:03–0:29
3
How does the Canadian advocacy group aim to break up Apple's App Store?
0:29–1:06
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How can passing gas provide insights into gut health?
1:06–1:37
5
What does fragmented sleep mean for cognitive performance in older adults?
1:37–2:42
6
How are scientists treating AI models like alien life forms?
2:42–2:44
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What are the financial disclosure rules impacting big streamers in Canada?
2:44–3:54
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What happened with the woman who brought 144 bagels from Toronto to LA?
3:54–1:20:25
Speakers
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