About this episode Experience a hilarious and chaotic live news broadcast as a bewildered Greek god, reporting from 2026, reacts theatrically to the bizarre and rapid advancements of modern life. Filled with theatrical outrage, interruptions by the gods themselves debating and arguing, this dispatch offers a humorous perspective on how ancient deities perceive today's inventions, social changes, and technological chaos. Listeners will enjoy the blend of mythological drama and contemporary commentary, gaining a fresh, entertaining take on the world’s wildest headlines.
0:00 Russian-linked groups are now using American AI to build killer drones.0:05 Last we spoke, you were all cooing over AI love and lab-grown steaks.0:10 Now you’ve given your thinking rocks a SWORD.0:13 You’ve stolen our powers AGAIN, and frankly, the execution is just… tacky.0:19 What?0:19 No, Hera, I'm not being dramatic.0:22 They are literally automating their disinformation.0:26 Okay, the mortal world is spinning out of control faster than one of Apollo's runaway chariots.0:33 Here’s the chaos report.0:35 First.0:35 Drones, apparently launched from Iraq, just hit a major Saudi oil pipeline.0:41 Mortals flying their little metal insects to poke at the veins of the earth they suck black blood from.0:48 It’s just… messy.0:50 Then you have Nigeria.0:51 They’ve suspended all official visits to South Africa.0:55 Why?0:56 Because ninety-eight Nigerians have been killed there since 2022 in what you call… anti-immigrant violence.1:04 Mortals killing other mortals for crossing imaginary lines in the dirt.1:09 We had better drama on Olympus, and our lines were drawn with thunderbolts.1:15 In Pakistan, the Jamaat-e-Islami party is planning a march on Islamabad.1:20 A whole march.1:21 Because the government is taxing petrol at one hundred and fourteen rupees a litre.1:27 A tax!1:28 They’re protesting a TAX.1:30 Ares would be so disappointed.1:32 He invents war, and you use it to argue about fuel prices.1:36 And then there's this.1:38 Nigeria again.1:39 They have a weed, the water hyacinth, choking their rivers.1:43 A literal plague.1:45 And what are they doing?1:46 They're turning it into fertilizer.1:49 Into rope.1:50 Into HANDICRAFTS.1:51 They are turning a curse into a commodity.1:54 I… have no notes.1:55 That’s actually clever.1:57 Don’t tell Zeus I said that.1:59 Oh, and some group called EFInA is releasing a big survey on September sixteenth to figure out how to get more money into more hands.2:09 Mortals.2:10 Always counting their little coins.2:12 Okay, let's go back to the thinking rocks with swords.2:16 Because this is where you’ve truly outdone yourselves.2:20 The report from Defense One says Russian groups are using YOUR tools.2:26 Claude.2:26 ChatGPT.2:27 The things you use to write poems and plan vacations.2:31 They’re using them to build networks of FAKE social media profiles.2:36 Entire fake NEWS sites.2:37 They’re forging official documents.2:40 AUTOMATING CYBERATTACKS.2:42 It’s like Hermes on a bad nectar binge, but scaled to infinity.2:47 He had to do his mischief one lie at a time.2:50 You’ve built a machine that tells a billion lies a second.2:54 And the best part?2:56 The most divine, Olympian joke of all?2:58 Your own leaders were warned.3:01 They were TOLD this would happen.3:03 And they just… sat there.3:05 Staring at their polls.3:07 Political inertia, they call it.3:09 I call it cowardice.3:11 You invent fire and then act surprised when the world burns.3:15 And then you have the audacity to look to the heavens and ask WHY.3:20 And that brings me back to Nigeria and South Africa.3:24 Because it’s the same story.3:26 Different verse, same tragic chorus.3:29 The clerk of Nigeria’s National Assembly — a mortal named Kamoru Ogunlana, bless his scroll-keeping heart — he said it plainly.3:38 He’s concerned about Nigerians being "killed, injured, displaced and forced to abandon their businesses." For being… Nigerian.3:48 In South Africa.3:49 Some of your "analysts" say it’s about jobs.3:52 About poverty.3:53 About scarcity.3:54 As if we don't know what jealousy looks like.3:58 As if we didn't watch it tear families and kingdoms apart for millennia.4:03 You have these incredible abilities.4:06 You can move across the planet in hours.4:09 You can send your voice across the globe in an instant.4:13 You created a global economy that depends on this movement.4:17 And then you get ANGRY when people… move.4:20 You build a world that requires motion and then punish the people who are in it.4:26 It is MADNESS.4:28 You built a world where you can turn a plague of weeds into wealth, and you can teach a rock to think.4:35 And you choose, every time, to teach the rock how to throw itself at your brother.4:41 It is… baffling.
