Speaker 1: Here you are, famous News Nation person. Thank you for
Speaker 1: your time today. How are you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm awesome?
Speaker 3: How arial okay?
Speaker 1: Did you have you had your vacation yet this summer?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm always on vacation. How about you?
Speaker 1: Exactly? All right, so you have an update for us
Speaker 1: on your News Nation activities.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, we we are going down at Walter.
Speaker 2: I did something today that I said that I was
Speaker 2: never going to do, but I did it. We did
Speaker 2: a Scientology episode and.
Speaker 3: I'm like, the last time we get to talk to you. Yes, yes,
Speaker 3: wish me well, thank you all the best. Yeah, So
Speaker 3: we did it. I hope it goes okay. But really
Speaker 3: my hypothesis for the episode was when does buying real
Speaker 3: estate stop looking like an investment and start looking kind
Speaker 3: of like an orchestrated takeover. And my target is Clearwater, Florida,
Speaker 3: where the locals there are just up in arms about
Speaker 3: you know, the church is buying buildings, parking lot, all
Speaker 3: these different spaces in the city in the downtown area,
Speaker 3: and then they're just sitting vacant for years and years
Speaker 3: and they're like, well, it's ruining our downtown area. We
Speaker 3: can't go there, And you know, they're trying to keep
Speaker 3: it vacant to keep people out, and then they're trying
Speaker 3: to keep expanding the church and a lot of just
Speaker 3: a lot of weird accusations and weird stuff going down there.
Speaker 3: So I talked to a guy who is a former
Speaker 3: church member who now spends his scientology church member who
Speaker 3: now spends his time. He's got a YouTube channel and
Speaker 3: he says it's it's for all the things, the pesty
Speaker 3: things Scientology doesn't.
Speaker 2: Want you to know. And he lives in Clearwater and
Speaker 2: you know, he's talking to city council member and people
Speaker 2: about hey, where do these votes actually come from? Weird
Speaker 2: that this person was paid, had this donation and now
Speaker 2: this past and really he's just kind of boots on
Speaker 2: the ground, like looking into all this stuff. That was
Speaker 2: really interesting conversation there. So, yeah, we're looking into Scientology
Speaker 2: and then we're going to go back into AI space
Speaker 2: for a little bit. I have a really interesting guy,
Speaker 2: Nick Bostrom, who I had a conversation with, and he
Speaker 2: you know, loved AI and he thinks that AI is
Speaker 2: you know, going to be incredible and we should all
Speaker 2: be leaning into it more and not scared that it's
Speaker 2: going to take our jobs. It's you know, it's gonna
Speaker 2: we're gonna be able to spend more time with our
Speaker 2: grandchildren doing what's important because we're going to train these
Speaker 2: robots to do the dirty work. And I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: this sounds like reverse simulation theory to me. You know,
Speaker 2: there's so many people out there who believe that we
Speaker 2: live in a simulation. But now I'm like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: are we kind of building the simulation right now to
Speaker 2: control our world? So yeah, a lot of fun, interesting
Speaker 2: stuff's coming up that we've been deep diving, and I'm
Speaker 2: excited about it.
Speaker 1: What was the most interesting thing you've learned about scientology
Speaker 1: and real estate today? What was the most interesting you
Speaker 1: learned that you didn't know anything about.
Speaker 2: Really, it was the number of people who are actually
Speaker 2: in scientology. You know, I was under the impression that
Speaker 2: there were millions of them, millions of scientologists, and the
Speaker 2: guy that I was talking to is like, there's maybe
Speaker 2: twenty five thousand worldwide, but they keep buying these properties
Speaker 2: and buying these spaces, so it looks like they have
Speaker 2: this massive footprint. So you know, if people come to
Speaker 2: the headquarters and clear wire, they're like, oh, it's just
Speaker 2: my town that is struggling with a couple of scientologists.
Speaker 2: The scientology is actually massive, and we have all they
Speaker 2: have all these members of this new l Ron Hubbard
Speaker 2: Square that's taking over the entire downtown when it's all
Speaker 2: kind of just front and you know, the church is
Speaker 2: they're registered with the government as a church, so they
Speaker 2: are tax exempt, so they don't have to show where
Speaker 2: they don't have to talk to the irs or show
Speaker 2: where their their money's going. But they're still when they
Speaker 2: so they have all this money because you know, it's
Speaker 2: not free to be a member. You know, you pay
Speaker 2: and you pay to level up. So they have a
Speaker 2: ton of money and they're buying all disreal estate. But
Speaker 2: it's weird because they're not doing it under the church's name.
Speaker 2: They're doing it in LLC's to kind of hide that
Speaker 2: they own it because they want the media to look away.
Speaker 2: They don't want people knowing that all these properties are
Speaker 2: saying vacant and the churches to blame for, you know,
Speaker 2: making the downtown area not as appealing or pushing tourists
Speaker 2: out for not to be a welcoming, busting city when
Speaker 2: you know, clear Water their main city's main the venue
Speaker 2: for making money is tourism. Their beaches are world renowned,
Speaker 2: some of the best beaches in America. So it's interesting
Speaker 2: that they're purposely doing it in LLCs to try to
Speaker 2: hide the fact that it's them buying it.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been to Clear Water?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have, because it's the spookiest place I've ever been,
Speaker 1: except for Salt Lake City.
Speaker 2: Because of the church in Salt Lake is Mormon Church. Correct.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's also a spooky place, especially like a
Speaker 1: dusk when you can feel that there's nobody there, and
Speaker 1: it is a spooky place. The Church of Scientology. And
Speaker 1: then about AI. Who was it that you were talking
Speaker 1: to about AI?
Speaker 2: His name is Nick Bustrom. He's a very, very very
Speaker 2: smart man.
Speaker 1: And what's his expertise about AI?
Speaker 2: He's he's an innovator and he's an hypothesizer and a lecturer.
Speaker 2: He is really the kind of person who companies bring
Speaker 2: in to be like, hey, how do we get to
Speaker 2: the next level. He's really just like a mind. He's
Speaker 2: on those people that you know. When we booked him,
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, well, crap, I really got to
Speaker 2: study now, cannot Like this guy's going to school me.
Speaker 2: But he's really easy to talk to and he's incredibly smart.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he's really one of the pioneers behind AI,
Speaker 2: pushing as our future and how it can benefit us.
Speaker 2: You know, so many people are talking about the dangers
Speaker 2: of it, and you know I talked to him about
Speaker 2: that as well, and he always had a very sound,
Speaker 2: level headed rebuttal of like, hey, like, this is what's
Speaker 2: going on. We embrace it now or we're left behind.
Speaker 2: It could be harmful to you if you don't embrace
Speaker 2: it now.
Speaker 1: It's always true of any new technology that people are
Speaker 1: afraid of it, and nine times out of ten there's
Speaker 1: no reason to be afraid of it, and if it
Speaker 1: ultimately has no use, it disappears like betamax. So that's
Speaker 1: the deal, all right, Megan, This is great. When is
Speaker 1: this these reports going.
Speaker 3: To air in the next couple of weeks?
Speaker 2: You know, I think when I think next week might
Speaker 2: be AI and then the following week Scientology or vice versa.
Speaker 2: But you know, Walter, I just haven't made up my mind.
Speaker 2: My team is asking me the same thing. My editors
Speaker 2: were asking me the same thing, because I shoot teases
Speaker 2: for these things and they're like, where are we editing
Speaker 2: these teases on I'm like I got to sleep on
Speaker 2: it in the next couple of weeks. But today today
Speaker 2: our Prince Andrew Jeffrey Ebstein episode came out. So if
Speaker 2: you're looking to get caught up, that is live, that
Speaker 2: is on un Reported, and I'd love for you guys
Speaker 2: to watch that while I sit here and contemplate my
Speaker 2: next move.
Speaker 1: Give me a hook on the Jeffrey Epstein thing. Why
Speaker 1: should I watch?
Speaker 2: I speak to a lady named Sam McAllister. She is
Speaker 2: the woman who works for the BBC in the UK,
Speaker 2: and she actually booked Prince Andrew for the interview that
Speaker 2: ruined his royal career, potentially ruined his life, and we
Speaker 2: talked about is this justice for somebody who quite possibly
Speaker 2: was more than just friends, which every Epstein might have
Speaker 2: been engaged in a legal activity, is accused of sexual
Speaker 2: assault and is this actually justice when there are so
Speaker 2: many people who face the same accusations, who are just
Speaker 2: walking around free. Maybe they've testified behind closed doors in
Speaker 2: front of Congress, but you know, this man actually put
Speaker 2: his face out there and did an interview thinking he
Speaker 2: was going to clear his name, and it crumbled, not
Speaker 2: only his royal career, but potentially his life. So is
Speaker 2: this the kind of justice that we could see for
Speaker 2: somebody who is an associate of Epstein? But I mean
Speaker 2: her story is incredible about how she got him just
Speaker 2: a down for this interview, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Megan, that sounds fantastic. Thank you very much for
Speaker 1: your time today. And you're the star. You can decide
Speaker 1: when those pieces who run whenever you want, it's totally
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe your viewers can vote for me. Let me
Speaker 2: know what they say. I'll do whatever you can say.
Speaker 1: Thank you, good talking to you.
Speaker 3: Thanks Megan, Yeah bye