The Morning Quickie: Trans Humanoids (06/11/25)

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
John for in the morning quickie on ninety a rock, brought.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
To you by bar Joe Ford.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Right afternoon. Rain is a thing. Had some thunder boomers yesterday,
definitely up where I was living in Carrollwood there. But
look for a chance of rain right Ron's sundown. Who
knows who's gonna get it. Ninety across the coast, ninety
plus Inland Aea.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Good morning, and Silver Airways speaking of things, is well
not one anymore, adds Uppa. They announced early this morning
that they are now ceasing operations, effective immediately right now,
and have canceled all flights, including today's. Now this airline
was based in Hollywood, they did have a hub here
in Tampa, as well as Orlando, Pensacola for Lauderdale, Key

(00:40):
West airports in the Caribbean and the Bahamas, which I
mean some of those airports, some of those areas there's
only like one flight or two and that's it. And
if it's Silver work, you're sool right now.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
So I'm assuming they're going to give them some money
back on this stuff.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Well, here's what we do know. See, they announced earlier
this year that they were going to be filing for
Chapter eleven, but promise to continue normal operations, and they
did so with the scaled back schedule, but that all
changed unexpectedly for passengers this morning. They did post a
statement on their website this morning saying, quote unquote, we
regret to inform you that we're ceasing operations as of today,

(01:16):
June eleventh. In an attempt to restructure in bankruptcy, Silver
entered into a transaction to sell its assets to another
airline holding company, who unfortunately has determined to not continue
Silver's flight operations in Florida, the Bahamas, and the Caribbean.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Please do not go to the airport. That's what their
website says. Do not go to the airport. All credit
card purchases should be refundable through your credit card company
or your travel agency. End quote.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
What was the name of the airline again?

Speaker 2 (01:44):
It's Silver, which I've flown them. I've flown in my
handful of times.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
I mean, so, some people had some destinations going, Okay,
how do we get home?

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Well, yeah, I mean, hally, you're stranded in the Caribbean
or the Bahamas right now.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
In the Caribbean. I guess we'll have a calling to
work on this. Blame it on silver.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
People of all the luck. Another flight that's not happening SpaceX.
They called off today's planned launch after engineers found a
liquid oxygen leak and felk in the Felcon nine rocket
during the post test checks. Was supposed to take off
from Kennedy Space Center and carry four astronauts to the ISS.

(02:21):
So no word on win that one is going to
be rescheduled. Okay, something that is making a comeback though.
At Delegas T Shirt Club, they just announced it. It's
going to be coming back for year two and you
got to be a fifth member, which is their fan club.
You can cz. You can sign up for free. There's
also different paid subscriptions, but for this this membership is
available for purchase from June second through June twenty seventh,

(02:41):
in which they're going to ship you four different T
shirts with exclusive designs coming from old tour dates, cruise shirts,
and a whole lot more coming in exclusive packaging and
subscription specific hangtags, which is pretty cool. Going to send
you back one hundred and sixty books. Though Simpsons creator
Mac Braining is revealed the character in the show that

(03:03):
is actually based on him, which we know that his
own parents were named Homer and marsh And you know,
some of the other core characters in that series come
from his life, including his two sisters, Lisa and Maggie.
But as for him, he says, the character that best
represents him is.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Millhouse, Millhouse, Millhouse.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
You remember him with the glasses, blue hair.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
A part's best friend. Yeah, got it, it's funny. I
love that.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
And uh, if you're ordinary, you should prepare to be obsolete.
This is according to the viewpoint of tech investor and
futurist Herbert sim See. Sim is a millionaire who's deep
in defunding what he calls transhumanism, otherwise known as the
enhancement of humans through science and technology. He's predicting that
within the next five years there could be a new

(03:56):
mutant race roaming among the planet among the boring old
quote unquote average humans. And how so well. His startup
uses a helmet that reads brain waves. They say. These
brain waves are projected onto a computer, which then reads
and turns them into actions which can allow this new
race of mutants to live longer and defeat diseases and

(04:19):
the other humans. Yeah, possibly extending your life for five
hundred years.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Five hundred sign me up. I'll I'll have another five hundred.
I gotta be a mutant. I'll do it. This is
getting crazier and crazier. Week over week, We're hearing like
more and more ridiculous slash real stories.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Well, here's the thing. Apparently, according to this article, there
are some transhumans that are already walking around society today.
Oh boy, they say. Researchers from the Broad Institute at
MIT and Harvard reported in Science that they created a
new tool that basically inserts large pieces of DNA into
human cells with toble precision that could be used to

(05:01):
fix genetic diseases and even improve traits like extending a longevity.
So that's something that looks like that they're already starting
to do.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Would you inject your DNA or brain matter into a
robot to make a trends?

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Well, you don't know if it's if it's a robot
or if it's you know, injecting others with this type
of technology. I mean, if it was something that can
help you with different you know, things you're facing battling,
like cancer, whatever else, and it will probably won't.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Be used for evil. I'm sure it wouldn't be used
for evil. No way, nobody.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Use'd ever think of that. Come on, now.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
There you go. All right, you want to comment and stuff,
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And it's always very smart to know what the mystery
iff is. And yet third clue coming up in the
next thirty minutes. Ninety eight Rock