WEBVTT 00:00:12.680 --> 00:00:15.980 Welcome back to New World Next Week. I'm James Corbett of CorbettReport.com. 00:00:16.180 --> 00:00:19.300 And I am James Elvin Pallotto of MediaMonarchy.com. 00:00:19.400 --> 00:00:24.080 This case could set a precedent impacting countless other builders and musicians. 00:00:24.500 --> 00:00:29.760 We have got that story. Plus, stop hiring humans. But first, they did. 00:00:30.220 --> 00:00:34.880 Republican Thomas Massey, who stood up to Trump, defeated in Kentucky primary, 00:00:35.040 --> 00:00:36.400 grabbing this from Al Jazeera. 00:00:36.480 --> 00:00:40.180 Yeah, all it took was, you know, millions from Zionists, from some mercenary 00:00:40.180 --> 00:00:42.140 no one seems to actually like or support. 00:00:42.300 --> 00:00:46.380 The Associated Press News Agency called the race for Ed Galrain, 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:50.800 whose campaign was backed by Trump's endorsement, as well as millions of dollars 00:00:50.800 --> 00:00:55.020 from pro-Trump and, more importantly, pro-Israel political lobby groups. 00:00:55.160 --> 00:01:01.140 The contest, widely described as the most expensive House of Representatives primary in U.S. 00:01:01.260 --> 00:01:06.040 History, because everything costs more, saw more than 32 million and spin on 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:10.940 advertising in office the latest piece of evidence of Trump's hold over the Repug party. 00:01:11.260 --> 00:01:14.780 It followed the primary defeat on Saturday, a few days prior, 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:20.380 of another Trump critic, Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, as well as for dissenting 00:01:20.380 --> 00:01:23.340 Republican state lawmakers in Indiana earlier this month. 00:01:23.460 --> 00:01:26.820 These are all the sort of primary elections here in the states, 00:01:27.020 --> 00:01:29.980 setting up who's going to be running for it in the fall. 00:01:30.990 --> 00:01:35.070 The big important 2026, you know, when the pendulum will swing back the other 00:01:35.070 --> 00:01:38.230 way from the party that's not in favor, as it seemingly always does. 00:01:38.410 --> 00:01:42.950 In the northern Kentucky city of Covington, Rob Barkley, a former Trump supporter 00:01:42.950 --> 00:01:46.330 who backed Massey, said the president's attacks had actually helped him push 00:01:46.330 --> 00:01:47.670 him further towards the congressman. 00:01:47.810 --> 00:01:50.870 He's on the Republican side, so he has a conservative mindset, 00:01:51.350 --> 00:01:53.690 Barkley told U.S. media after casting his ballot. 00:01:53.930 --> 00:01:57.490 But he's not as far right as Trump's leanings in his politics. 00:01:58.210 --> 00:02:04.450 Massey, who voted with Trump 90% of the time during the president's 2.0 term, 00:02:04.630 --> 00:02:09.170 framed the contest as a broader test of independence within the Refuglican Party. 00:02:09.270 --> 00:02:10.950 I'm not running against President Trump. 00:02:11.110 --> 00:02:15.310 Most of the people voting for me support Trump like I do, Massey said. 00:02:15.790 --> 00:02:20.910 The hated Secretary of War Pete Hegseth made a rare appearance in Massey's district 00:02:20.910 --> 00:02:23.730 the day before Election Day to campaign for Ed Galrain. 00:02:23.730 --> 00:02:27.670 Federal law restricts government employees from engaging in partisan political 00:02:27.670 --> 00:02:31.850 activity while on duty, but Hegseth's office totally said he attended in a personal 00:02:31.850 --> 00:02:34.830 capacity and that no theft payer money was used. 00:02:35.110 --> 00:02:39.790 It's black budget. Trump later revealed that Hegseth's campaign appearance came 00:02:39.790 --> 00:02:41.210 just hours before the U.S. 00:02:41.210 --> 00:02:46.250 Had expected to launch a new military assault on Iran, the war for Israel that 00:02:46.250 --> 00:02:51.070 they need congressional support for, although the operation was later postponed. 00:02:51.630 --> 00:02:57.210 Massey, first elected back in 2012, had long been one of Trump's most persistent Republican critics. 00:02:57.390 --> 00:03:02.290 And if you don't believe me, let's just take it from the tweet words of AIPAC. 00:03:02.910 --> 00:03:06.730 Ed Gawrain's victory in Kentucky and Clay Fuller's win in Georgia ensures two 00:03:06.730 --> 00:03:12.310 outspoken pro-Israel voices are positioned to fill seats previously held by 00:03:12.310 --> 00:03:16.130 outspoken detractors Thomas Massey and Marjorie Taylor Greene. 00:03:16.230 --> 00:03:22.610 Our community was proud to help pro-Israel candidates win these races. So, Mr. Lock-Em-Up... 00:03:23.420 --> 00:03:28.380 Lock her up. He's only really achieved the success of getting rid of some of 00:03:28.380 --> 00:03:30.520 the half-okay Congress critters there were. 00:03:30.740 --> 00:03:33.880 And I saw this, and of course there's, it just seems pretty sus. 00:03:34.220 --> 00:03:38.140 Nobody showed up to Ed Galrain's victory party. Apparently there wasn't a single 00:03:38.140 --> 00:03:40.940 Kentucky state lawmaker at the event. Does this make sense? 00:03:41.160 --> 00:03:46.980 And then you look at the losing event for Thomas Massey, and it's packed like a rock show. 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:53.940 Seems sus. Seems rigged AF like maybe most selections do. something about 10,000 00:03:53.940 --> 00:03:56.120 votes in the middle of the night, Brandon style. 00:03:56.400 --> 00:04:01.320 So maybe James, the positive side, now that Thomas Massey is not constrained 00:04:01.320 --> 00:04:05.440 by working for the state, maybe he can actually maybe accomplish more. 00:04:05.620 --> 00:04:09.620 I joke, we were joking in the chat. He'll have a podcast in three, two. 00:04:10.020 --> 00:04:15.200 Now, James, the question and what Thomas Massey had repeatedly said in relation 00:04:15.200 --> 00:04:20.760 to calling his opponent, you know, for the, you have to do the concession call when you lose. 00:04:20.840 --> 00:04:24.340 He said he was going to call him up, but he couldn't find the number in Tel Aviv. 00:04:24.700 --> 00:04:28.020 How do you fight City Hall when City Hall's in Tel Aviv, James? 00:04:28.970 --> 00:04:32.030 Hell, James, you can't even fight City Hall when City Hall is in El Rito. 00:04:32.330 --> 00:04:34.830 So, you know, good luck with that. But, you know, say it with me. 00:04:34.910 --> 00:04:37.370 If voting changed anything, they wouldn't let you do it. 00:04:37.490 --> 00:04:40.970 This is example number 7,258,369. 00:04:41.190 --> 00:04:45.970 But you know what they say, 7,258,370th times the charm, guys. 00:04:46.170 --> 00:04:47.650 Do it again. Two more years. 00:04:48.890 --> 00:04:53.270 2028, 2028. And of course, I did watch a bit of the concession speech in which 00:04:53.270 --> 00:04:56.510 after he makes that joke about Galrein in Tel Aviv, 00:04:56.510 --> 00:05:01.390 the people start chanting 28 28 what are you guys saying you want me to run 00:05:01.390 --> 00:05:07.330 for congress again president president yay yay more hopium put it right in my 00:05:07.330 --> 00:05:11.330 veins we didn't vote hard enough this time but we'll vote even harder and overcome 00:05:11.330 --> 00:05:14.110 the obvious rigging and election. 00:05:14.750 --> 00:05:19.950 Swinging that is done by these people who control the system that is there to 00:05:19.950 --> 00:05:24.050 control you and you think you are going to vote someone in who is going to manage 00:05:24.050 --> 00:05:25.990 to do anything of substance in that system. 00:05:26.110 --> 00:05:31.250 We have seen if you go against the Epstein class, they will come down on you like a sack of hammers. 00:05:31.270 --> 00:05:36.330 If you try to put your vote against the biggest spending bill in history, 00:05:36.550 --> 00:05:37.530 nope, you're going down. 00:05:37.690 --> 00:05:42.330 If you attempt to even put the brakes on Israel's war of aggression against 00:05:42.330 --> 00:05:45.530 Iran, not in Trump's America, you don't. 00:05:45.610 --> 00:05:49.450 No, voting is not the solution here. But you know what? I 00:05:49.690 --> 00:05:53.610 Good. I say, let this stupid system fall. 00:05:53.850 --> 00:05:58.410 I hope that all those people who are chanting 28 president wake up tomorrow 00:05:58.410 --> 00:06:03.470 morning ashamed of themselves for having been duped yet again, 00:06:03.710 --> 00:06:07.570 just as they have been duped every single time in every selection cycle, 00:06:07.690 --> 00:06:13.470 their entire lives to arrive at this point where they now realize it was all a lie. 00:06:13.470 --> 00:06:17.510 I think there is a genuine revolutionary spirit that is rising. 00:06:17.850 --> 00:06:24.470 People are realizing that the ballot box is a slave suggestion box that is meant to placate you. 00:06:24.650 --> 00:06:29.030 And once people realize that, I think we will start to see real revolutionary 00:06:29.030 --> 00:06:32.410 energy. That, of course, does not mean that everything is going to turn out all right. 00:06:32.570 --> 00:06:34.450 Let some blood flow in the streets 00:06:34.450 --> 00:06:37.930 and everything will be better has not tended to work out in history. 00:06:38.010 --> 00:06:43.030 But at the very least, if you want something to change, I'm going to say it's 00:06:43.030 --> 00:06:47.110 probably not going to happen by voting even harder in twenty twenty eight, guys. 00:06:48.930 --> 00:06:51.610 I'd love to again the the cliche is as you 00:06:51.610 --> 00:06:54.710 can change the system from the inside and in 00:06:54.710 --> 00:06:59.470 my nearly 49 years i've i've never seen that work out successfully i suppose 00:06:59.470 --> 00:07:04.050 it could it could be true but i've never seen it play out that way james watch 00:07:04.050 --> 00:07:10.110 them they'll they'll try and do desantis massey 28 and run against jd and dj 00:07:10.110 --> 00:07:14.210 and we'll see and i would add maybe vote against, 00:07:15.350 --> 00:07:18.070 their propositions on all their elections. 00:07:18.270 --> 00:07:20.750 We want to build this and we want to steal money for that. No, 00:07:20.830 --> 00:07:22.730 no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 00:07:23.050 --> 00:07:27.070 Vote no against all their propositions. Don't vote for any of their people. 00:07:27.290 --> 00:07:30.110 Just maybe write your name in. Hell, write my name in. 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:35.140 That's how we get going on New World Next Week, episode 631. 00:07:35.140 --> 00:07:39.820 And perhaps that revolutionary energy might be found in our second story. 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:44.240 Ragebait with a price tag. Stop hiring humans. 00:07:44.520 --> 00:07:49.560 Billboards spread across U.S. cities as AI startup artisan. 00:07:49.900 --> 00:07:53.340 Sparks fury and death threats, which was well calculated. 00:07:53.640 --> 00:07:57.300 Grabbing this from IB Times again. Everything we say, all our wild accusations, 00:07:57.540 --> 00:07:59.180 all sourced and cited down in the show notes. 00:07:59.180 --> 00:08:03.660 A San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup that's like the start 00:08:03.660 --> 00:08:08.300 of a horror movie has plastered Stop Hiring Humans, the quote, 00:08:08.820 --> 00:08:13.680 across billboards from California to New York City, the only places they want 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:15.420 you to believe actually matter in this country. 00:08:15.900 --> 00:08:19.300 And the backlash, of course, has been anything but quiet because everybody's 00:08:19.300 --> 00:08:21.180 mad about everything all the time. 00:08:21.340 --> 00:08:26.380 It's about trying to hopefully steer and direct that now righteous anger that's been stoked up. 00:08:26.380 --> 00:08:31.780 Artisan AI, which sells AI-powered virtual sales representatives, 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:35.680 launched the campaign in October 2024 and has since expanded, 00:08:35.820 --> 00:08:38.360 of course, to Times Square and bus stops all across Manhattan, 00:08:38.580 --> 00:08:42.020 according to co-founder and CEO Jasper Carmichael Jack. 00:08:42.680 --> 00:08:47.940 The ads, which also carry slogans such as Artisans won't complain about work-life 00:08:47.940 --> 00:08:53.380 balance and Artisans won't come into work hungover, were designed specifically, 00:08:53.640 --> 00:08:57.040 like most of culture is, to provoke you. 00:08:57.320 --> 00:08:59.160 It's rage bait with a price tag. 00:09:00.090 --> 00:09:04.610 Carmichael Jack has acknowledged the strategy openly, telling a repeater, 00:09:04.830 --> 00:09:08.710 The biggest play with the campaign is not actually the people who see it from the streets. 00:09:08.990 --> 00:09:13.890 It's when people take pictures and repost and reshare it. That's when we go viral. 00:09:14.190 --> 00:09:17.890 The campaign, of course, not controversial by accident. 00:09:18.130 --> 00:09:22.790 Artisans' earlier marketing efforts used softer slogans such as Be more productive, 00:09:23.150 --> 00:09:26.470 upskill with AI, fitter, happier, more productive. 00:09:26.830 --> 00:09:30.650 But they failed to gain widespread attention. and that was always my favorite. 00:09:31.010 --> 00:09:37.750 The company then deliberately pivoted, as seemingly everything has, to shock value. 00:09:38.290 --> 00:09:41.990 Carmichael Jack decided that stoking people's fears about being replaced by 00:09:41.990 --> 00:09:46.430 AI would almost certainly hit a nerve, and it worked, at least by their own metrics. 00:09:46.630 --> 00:09:50.950 The campaign generated tens of millions of impressions, hundreds of news articles, 00:09:51.090 --> 00:09:54.450 and by Carmichael Jack's account, thousands of death threats. 00:09:54.630 --> 00:09:58.610 Again, in this culture, love, hate, whatever, the attention, 00:09:58.610 --> 00:10:00.130 It's all about the attention. 00:10:00.570 --> 00:10:05.110 James, I have made the claim over these last decade that Taylor Swift and Donald 00:10:05.110 --> 00:10:09.630 Trump are the greatest economic drivers in American 21st century life. 00:10:10.030 --> 00:10:12.490 I hate her. Oh, I love her. 00:10:13.170 --> 00:10:17.150 All good. They just stay sort of at that at that top fevered egos. 00:10:17.310 --> 00:10:21.370 I believe St. Hicks would call them Carmichael Jack told a reporter the company 00:10:21.370 --> 00:10:27.170 spent less than 50 grand on placements across Manhattan, including Times Square. 00:10:27.170 --> 00:10:33.950 The earned media free attention like they give to their hated orange man which has propped him up. 00:10:34.990 --> 00:10:38.810 The earned media value far exceeded that spend, with the company claiming hundreds 00:10:38.810 --> 00:10:42.210 of millions of online impressions from the New York rollout alone. 00:10:42.410 --> 00:10:47.010 And we have the link to their own blog, why we put Stop Hiring Humans on Billboards 00:10:47.010 --> 00:10:48.430 and what it actually means. 00:10:48.530 --> 00:10:51.990 And now, of course, you know, they're going to get the big New World Next Week boost. 00:10:52.130 --> 00:10:54.530 They're going to go, wow, man, our traffic went crazy. 00:10:54.950 --> 00:10:59.510 We will include a link about the attention economy. It's the only economy that 00:10:59.510 --> 00:11:01.770 isn't completely crashing and crumbling, James. 00:11:01.770 --> 00:11:08.490 In related news, one in five Brits think AI layoffs could trigger civil unrest, 00:11:08.530 --> 00:11:14.750 which I would say they know how to cause from all their AI wargaming of what's going to cause unrest. 00:11:14.930 --> 00:11:19.750 Now, James, what does this have to do with data centers and Dune? 00:11:21.910 --> 00:11:25.390 Excellent question. Yeah, I thought so. Yes. 00:11:25.670 --> 00:11:30.610 Well, for people who don't know, I just released a Solutions Watch on Butlerian Jihad when? 00:11:31.170 --> 00:11:34.450 And I hoped that that would be an intriguing title for people, 00:11:34.590 --> 00:11:37.850 but I'm sure it's off-putting for people who don't know about the Butlerian 00:11:37.850 --> 00:11:40.170 Jihad and are knee-deep in the Dune mythology. 00:11:40.170 --> 00:11:45.130 So I will simply tease that solutions watch, which I think is a pretty important 00:11:45.130 --> 00:11:47.410 one. I really hope people will give it a watch. 00:11:47.550 --> 00:11:53.110 But it's about it takes as its basis that interesting incident we saw a few 00:11:53.110 --> 00:11:57.010 weeks ago with that crazy guy who went to Sam Altman's house with a Molotov 00:11:57.010 --> 00:11:59.550 cocktail and a manifesto. 00:11:59.710 --> 00:12:02.690 And he didn't accomplish much of anything except getting arrested. 00:12:02.930 --> 00:12:07.930 But interestingly, it turns out he refers to himself as Butlerian jihadist. 00:12:08.410 --> 00:12:13.890 But Larry and G hot is what is the but Larry? Oh, the overthrow of the thinking 00:12:13.890 --> 00:12:15.710 machines from the Dune mythology. 00:12:15.990 --> 00:12:20.750 So anyway, that's a deep dive that goes into that revolutionary spirit. 00:12:20.930 --> 00:12:23.990 I was mentioning in part one of our story number one here today. 00:12:24.150 --> 00:12:29.930 I think this is an important part of that. It's a neo Luddite movement, question mark. 00:12:30.150 --> 00:12:33.850 And of course, we have been trained by the algorithmic overlords to associate 00:12:33.850 --> 00:12:38.770 that word Luddite with dumb, stupid people who don't understand technological advancement. 00:12:39.210 --> 00:12:43.010 But in that Solutions Watch episode, I talk about Brian Merchant's new book 00:12:43.010 --> 00:12:44.630 on Blood in the Machines, 00:12:44.810 --> 00:12:49.810 which is about that historical social economic context of the Luddite movement 00:12:49.810 --> 00:12:53.610 in the early 19th century in England and what it was and what it accomplished 00:12:53.610 --> 00:12:57.050 and what it didn't accomplish and what it was actually aiming at, etc. 00:12:57.150 --> 00:13:02.970 It's actually a much more fascinating history than I'm sure any of us learned 00:13:02.970 --> 00:13:08.510 in our indoctrination camp, indoctrination from our youth and also highly relevant 00:13:08.510 --> 00:13:10.430 to this age of the big tech backlash. 00:13:10.990 --> 00:13:13.570 So I'll leave that there for now, but enough of the self plug. 00:13:13.810 --> 00:13:15.470 But yeah, please watch that Solutions Watch. 00:13:15.630 --> 00:13:21.190 I will also plug a very good conversation I just heard between Hervoy Morich 00:13:21.190 --> 00:13:25.670 and Gabe of the Libra Solutions Network on geopolitics and empire, 00:13:25.850 --> 00:13:30.390 Libra Solutions, AI takeover, hostile cyberspace, virtual Stasi and resisting Borg. 00:13:30.570 --> 00:13:38.130 They make a number of important points about the AI narrative and what is happening and the possibility of. 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:44.100 Pushback, et cetera, resistance. But long story short, yes, I do think there 00:13:44.100 --> 00:13:48.380 is a revolutionary movement moment that is happening right now that is happening. 00:13:48.660 --> 00:13:52.980 And the question is how they spin it or how they try to control it or how they 00:13:52.980 --> 00:13:56.860 try to steer it or what kind of false flag provocation they use to gin up some 00:13:56.860 --> 00:14:00.940 domestic terror incident that they'll use to crack down on it exactly as they 00:14:00.940 --> 00:14:02.300 crack down on the Luddite movement, 00:14:02.460 --> 00:14:05.220 which is another reason we should probably know something about that history. 00:14:05.620 --> 00:14:12.340 So there's a lot to take in there. But yes, earned media is a great thing. 00:14:12.520 --> 00:14:16.980 Who cares? As long as you spell my name right, unless it's putting a target on your head. 00:14:17.060 --> 00:14:22.920 And that's kind of what this is doing right now, because I people are only starting 00:14:22.920 --> 00:14:29.400 to understand how reviled the AI tech overlords are right now. 00:14:29.520 --> 00:14:33.360 And we saw that with Eric Schmidt getting up there after that lady at that graduation 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:36.480 ceremony getting booed about AI, and he's like, hold my beer. 00:14:36.660 --> 00:14:41.060 Hey, guys, AI is the way of the future, and it's great, and he gets booed. What? 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:45.100 Booing Eric Schmidt? Who could think of such a thing? Anyway, 00:14:45.540 --> 00:14:48.820 yeah, we're at the cusp of that revolutionary moment. Where do we go from here? 00:14:49.020 --> 00:14:51.560 But Larry and Jihad win, question mark? 00:14:53.300 --> 00:14:57.600 I mentioned reading sci-fi last week on this show and said, oh, 00:14:57.700 --> 00:15:00.840 well, the structures got destroyed after the neo-Luddite uprisings. 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:08.800 I mean, if anything has replaced Israel in the thought minds of American people 00:15:08.800 --> 00:15:12.340 who want to try and shake off the shackles, it's definitely now data centers. 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:15.860 It's just it is placed everywhere. 00:15:16.640 --> 00:15:23.200 And somebody sent me the link to your Dune video. And they were like, oh, man, cool. 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:26.520 Corbett's doing Dune. That wasn't on my bingo card. And then next day, 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:27.680 the thumbnail had changed. 00:15:29.280 --> 00:15:32.140 So you've kind of swapped that baby up you've got to update it, 00:15:33.510 --> 00:15:36.650 As Fender's going to try and do. Our third and final story, always the real 00:15:36.650 --> 00:15:39.090 interesting wild card on your New World Next Week episodes. 00:15:39.470 --> 00:15:45.570 Fender Guitars. Fender escalates legal campaign against S-Style Guitars issues 00:15:45.570 --> 00:15:48.350 first cease and desist to U.S. Builder. 00:15:48.690 --> 00:15:53.670 Grabbing what is possibly for the first time on this show in 17 years from GuitarWorld.com, 00:15:54.170 --> 00:15:58.990 Fender has laid down the gauntlet in its protection of the Stratocaster body 00:15:58.990 --> 00:16:01.470 shape, sending a cease and desist to a U.S. 00:16:01.590 --> 00:16:05.430 Firm, ordering it to stop production of its S-styled electric guitars. 00:16:05.730 --> 00:16:09.430 As per documents obtained by YouTubers Philip McKnight and Tone Nerd, 00:16:09.810 --> 00:16:14.350 Fender sent cease and desist letters via its lawyers at Bird and Bird to a small 00:16:14.350 --> 00:16:18.370 family-run guitar company based in the U.S. called LSL Instruments. 00:16:18.530 --> 00:16:22.570 The letter is allegedly part of a number of cease and desist sent to a range 00:16:22.570 --> 00:16:27.450 of U.S.-based builders ordering them to halt production of the possibly most 00:16:27.450 --> 00:16:30.010 iconic-looking guitar design in history. 00:16:30.670 --> 00:16:35.210 McKnight claims to have heard from at least half a dozen firms who have received such correspondence. 00:16:35.490 --> 00:16:40.530 The development comes after Fender secured a landmark ruling in Germany, 00:16:40.690 --> 00:16:45.150 in which the regional court of Dusseldorf established a legal precedent to protect 00:16:45.150 --> 00:16:47.170 the Stratocaster body design. 00:16:47.590 --> 00:16:51.990 According to Fender, the outcome of the case, launched against a Chinese manufacturer, 00:16:52.170 --> 00:16:56.570 gave the firm the legal right to protect its designs in global commerce. 00:16:56.690 --> 00:17:02.170 It established the Stratocaster as a copyrighted work of art based on original 00:17:02.170 --> 00:17:05.950 creative expression, and any firms operating or selling Stratocaster inspired 00:17:05.950 --> 00:17:09.150 guitars in the EU are believed to be at risk of falling afoul of the ruling. 00:17:09.870 --> 00:17:12.910 However, at the time, the ramifications of the ruling were unclear. 00:17:13.150 --> 00:17:17.870 It seems fairly unprecedented territory. And it wasn't fully understood just 00:17:17.870 --> 00:17:21.870 how Fender could and would enforce the case that came out of Dusseldorf. 00:17:22.250 --> 00:17:27.050 In a press statement, Fender warned that And infringing products for sale into 00:17:27.050 --> 00:17:32.010 Germany or other countries of the EU is sufficient to establish liability regardless 00:17:32.010 --> 00:17:35.270 of where a manufacturer or seller is based. 00:17:35.490 --> 00:17:40.530 And now it does seem Fender has pressed on with its legal campaign in the EU and beyond. 00:17:40.830 --> 00:17:45.830 We will include a link to one of those YouTubers, Fender Declares War with Guitar 00:17:45.830 --> 00:17:49.390 Industry, and just a whole lawsuit overview from LawGood.com. 00:17:49.490 --> 00:17:56.850 James, my first electric guitar back in the late 90s was the Fender Squire Bullet Series. 00:17:56.850 --> 00:18:03.050 It was their own sort of in-house cheapy Chinese knockoff that looks exactly 00:18:03.050 --> 00:18:08.450 like, you know, the white pickguard on the black, just the beautiful, classic kind of fender. 00:18:08.710 --> 00:18:12.970 So this, I mean, I can speak to how iconic it is, James. 00:18:14.050 --> 00:18:18.330 Absolutely, it is. And I think everyone who does play guitar goes through a 00:18:18.330 --> 00:18:20.750 period in which it's like, do I have a Strat? 00:18:20.990 --> 00:18:24.430 Should I get a Strat? Of course, everyone needs a Strat. And the only reason 00:18:24.430 --> 00:18:28.730 that when I was first joining Komo San that I didn't get the Strat is because Sean had a Strat. 00:18:28.870 --> 00:18:34.190 So I, you know, I should go with something else. So I went with the Les Paul. But, you know what? 00:18:34.430 --> 00:18:39.550 Now, now that Fender is going to throw its weight around to sue little manufacturers 00:18:39.550 --> 00:18:44.990 that are making Strat knockoffs that they have been doing for decades and decades now, 00:18:44.990 --> 00:18:48.830 this is not some new phenomenon, but they've got a new court ruling in Germany 00:18:48.830 --> 00:18:50.450 to help them back this up, right? 00:18:50.450 --> 00:18:54.690 So now that they're doing that, yeah, maybe I will get a Strat, but not a Fender. 00:18:55.010 --> 00:18:58.550 Maybe I'll get an LSL, and I suggest other people do as well, 00:18:58.670 --> 00:19:01.050 support the little guy against the Behemoth. 00:19:01.890 --> 00:19:06.790 But for people who want to get into the weeds of this, yes, Gibson has a trademark 00:19:06.790 --> 00:19:11.810 in their bodies, the Les Paul or the Flying V, which they have to defend by 00:19:11.810 --> 00:19:14.790 defending against knockoffs in court. 00:19:14.790 --> 00:19:17.470 So that's the strategy they've taken. 00:19:17.650 --> 00:19:22.630 Fender is now apparently, it's not a trademark, it's a copyright that they have 00:19:22.630 --> 00:19:26.790 for the value of the artistic work of their S-shaped body design, 00:19:26.950 --> 00:19:31.130 which has been used by everybody for decades and decades and decades. 00:19:31.130 --> 00:19:36.490 And now they have to start trying to enforce this and putting these cease and desist letters out. 00:19:36.970 --> 00:19:40.170 Terrible. Brand suicide. It was nice knowing you, Fender. 00:19:40.370 --> 00:19:44.490 But anyway, you were already on the way out. It was only old fuddy-duddies like me who cared about you. 00:19:44.630 --> 00:19:49.870 Everyone who's younger than 40 wants an Ibanez or whatever. Whatever the kids are playing these days. 00:19:50.150 --> 00:19:52.710 So goodbye, Fender. It was nice not knowing you. 00:19:53.730 --> 00:19:58.850 I had a buddy, Kevin, back at the college radio station. His email was Ibanezkev.com. 00:19:59.960 --> 00:20:04.780 And I feel like years, years past, Gibson has had some whole other problems 00:20:04.780 --> 00:20:07.060 with production and how they were made. 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:10.080 I'm just pulling that off the top of my head. It's not coming to me right now, though, James. 00:20:10.360 --> 00:20:14.560 But again, really, really interesting, really interesting stuff here that we 00:20:14.560 --> 00:20:16.380 try and bring to you on New World Next Week. 00:20:16.540 --> 00:20:19.200 Not just the stories that, oh, this thing happened yesterday. 00:20:19.500 --> 00:20:25.760 But again, as the saying goes, you know, smart minds talk about ideas and dummies talk about people. 00:20:26.900 --> 00:20:29.780 I run the, well, I got the P.O. Box. 00:20:29.980 --> 00:20:33.480 I've reversed my order of shilling here at the end. I run the P.O. 00:20:33.520 --> 00:20:38.080 Box, as Corbett mentioned, in El Rito, New Mexico, 87-530. You can always find 00:20:38.080 --> 00:20:43.380 the address down in the show notes for you to support Media Monarchy or James Corbett. 00:20:43.600 --> 00:20:47.800 I also air the exclusive audio of these New World Next Week episodes before 00:20:47.800 --> 00:20:52.320 they are published anywhere in the universe. Only me and Brock and James have heard them. 00:20:52.540 --> 00:20:55.980 And now, James, I will ask you, do you have a better answer? 00:20:55.980 --> 00:21:00.360 Ari, your brand new 2019 USBs on newworldnextweek.com? 00:21:01.120 --> 00:21:05.840 No, I don't. But you know who does? Google and their AI. 00:21:06.280 --> 00:21:10.880 Yes. Thank you to Corbett Report member Vadum, who in last week's episode 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:14.980 left this comment from Google's HP hyperplagiarizer. 00:21:15.140 --> 00:21:16.460 I'm assuming he's referring to Gemini. 00:21:17.060 --> 00:21:21.080 This is the prompt. List all titles published by James Corbett in 2019 on The Corbett 00:21:21.360 --> 00:21:25.880 Report, to which The AI replied with, in 2019, James Corbett published 00:21:25.880 --> 00:21:28.920 several major documentary episodes and interviews on The Corbett Report. 00:21:29.140 --> 00:21:33.340 Key titles released during that year include major video documentaries and episodes 00:21:33.340 --> 00:21:38.260 like The 5G Dragnet, The Secrets of Silicon Valley, The Crisis of Science, 00:21:38.660 --> 00:21:44.400 Solutions, Open Science, Something Big Has Happened, and the second annual Real Fake News Awards. 00:21:44.400 --> 00:21:48.480 So, yes, if you're ever in doubt about what any of these USBs contain, 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:51.700 just go to Google and ask their AI. 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:55.340 Oh, wait, no, maybe you can just go to CorbettReport.com and there is a way 00:21:55.340 --> 00:21:56.740 to go through the archives by year. 00:21:56.860 --> 00:22:01.000 But anyway, find those productions that you think are important and buy the 00:22:01.000 --> 00:22:05.200 USBs that correspond with them so that you have the data with you forever and 00:22:05.200 --> 00:22:08.740 cannot be taken out in the Internet apocalypse. 00:22:09.600 --> 00:22:14.840 And we usually always data lock these USBs so you can't accidentally delete 00:22:14.840 --> 00:22:18.400 all the things off, say, if you hand it to your somebody who, you know. 00:22:19.550 --> 00:22:23.570 James, I imagine 2020 is going to be a biggie USB. 00:22:24.330 --> 00:22:28.290 Cassie and I were joking earlier. Of course, the wonderful, talented Cassbot 00:22:28.290 --> 00:22:33.530 had a successful merch stand at Derek's Activation Tour in Albuquerque. 00:22:33.710 --> 00:22:38.190 There are now more folks out there with Corbett and Monarchy gear spreading the word. 00:22:38.370 --> 00:22:41.650 And a huge, huge, huge giant thanks to those folks. And of course, 00:22:41.750 --> 00:22:44.270 to Cassbot for doing that down in Albuquerque last week. 00:22:44.750 --> 00:22:47.910 I believe this came up in a discussion. And Cassie and I are laughing like, 00:22:47.990 --> 00:22:51.410 yeah, 2020 is probably going to be rather a biggie USB. 00:22:52.030 --> 00:22:56.230 Hell, it'll make you think, oh, God, I just want to get back to 2019 when we 00:22:56.230 --> 00:22:58.330 were wondering about Epstein not killing himself. 00:23:00.510 --> 00:23:05.530 The New World Next Week sigh. That is episode 631, my friend. 00:23:06.310 --> 00:23:09.970 It's going to do it. But, James, I don't generally do this, but I'm going to 00:23:09.970 --> 00:23:13.750 immediately go back and re-listen to this episode of New World Next Week. 00:23:13.750 --> 00:23:17.710 Because I want to hear that OK computer voice again because I think I'm taking 00:23:17.710 --> 00:23:19.850 a touch of Kermit the Frog in that. 00:23:20.150 --> 00:23:22.210 It sounded halfway to a Kermit impression. 00:23:22.730 --> 00:23:27.270 You know, my impressions aren't perfect. I do a pretty good Wiggum. 00:23:27.630 --> 00:23:33.110 And I would have kept going on the line, but actually it does get to a swear in that. 00:23:33.330 --> 00:23:38.570 Like a cat tied to a stake that's driven into frozen winter poop. 00:23:39.210 --> 00:23:40.750 OK, that's going to be all. 00:23:42.710 --> 00:23:47.510 I am available for voiceover work. You know what? We're going to hear that Wiggum 00:23:47.510 --> 00:23:49.910 impression next week. We'll tease people with that. 00:23:50.370 --> 00:23:52.670 Okay, good deal. Cheers. Take care.